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Philosophy: Find Articles

A one stop guide for Philosophical research.

dubSearch: Search Multiple Databases


With dubSearch, you can search multiple databases at once to simultaneously browse articles, books, DVDs, newspapers, and multimedia content.

Off Campus Access

If you are off campus, you can still access research databases. Your my.whittier username and password allows you to access databases from home. 

Try Google Scholar

Provides a search of scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources, including theses, books, abstracts and articles.

Google Scholar Search

Finding Scholarly Articles in Electronic Databases

What is an electronic database anyway?

The Library has a number of electronic databases for finding articles in journals and some books.  Not everything you find will contain the full text of the articles. Some will only provide abstracts and/or citations. You can search by keywords, subjects, titles, and authors in order to retrieve articles from scholarly journals, newspapers, news magazines, encyclopedias and popular magazines--see below for descriptions of some databases that would be helpful in finding materials for your research.

Suggested databases for Philosophy