To access the SPU database PhilPapers, go here.
For additional databases that index Philosophy, see the box below.
The following comments were written with UCOR 3000, not PHIL 3606, in mind. In your application of them to Continental Philosophy, please make any appropriate adjustments. (The five journals recommended for the UCOR 3000 assignment, for example, would not usually be those most highly recommended for Continental Philosophy.)
This note tells you how to find 5 possible sources for your article-report. (Finding five possible sources counts for 5 of the 15 points possible for your report. No points for late submissions.)
1. Go to the SPU Homepage. Click on Library, then Articles, then Philosophy, then PhilPapers (direct link).
2. Next, click on advanced search. In the box labelled with all of the words, type one or more key words or phrases indicative of your topic of interest, for example evil “free will” (note the quotation marks around the phrase).
3. It may be helpful to limit your search to a particular journal. The following journals are especially useful for this course: Faith and Philosophy, Heythrop Journal, International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Religion, Philosophia Christi, Religious Studies, Theology and science, and Zygon. To limit your search to one or more of these, place the journal title (in quotation marks if a phrase) in the box labelled Return articles published in as follows: “Faith and Philosophy”. Or, alternatively, “Faith and Philosophy” | Zygon (source “Faith and Philosophy” OR source Zygon).
4. Click on Submit (or, beside the main (or simple) search box, Search). Be sure you’ve found an article or an essay in a book, not an entire book or mere book review (for starters, evil & “free will” –review (evil AND “free will” BUT NOT review)).
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You need to turn in author, title (of article), name of journal, date of publication (e.g. July 1998), and the abstract for the article (a short paragraph that summarizes the article). The easiest way to get this info is just to copy and paste from PhilPapers.
For a long list of "databases" that index Philosophy, go here.