The HOLLIS record does not yet indicate this access, so, for now, you will have to login to JSTOR directly, then browse or search for the journal to locate the articles that you want.

Please let me know if you would like any help with this.  I’m happy to do so!

It has been brought to my attention that Harvard now has access to the some of the philosophy texts in Oxford Scholarship Online (OSO).  This means that not only do we have access to reference works in philosophy, but also to the full text of currently published, copyrighted books published by Oxford University Press.

When I first checked the site yesterday, I noted that our access includes “the full text of titles published to OSO from the May, 2006 to September, 2008 updates, inclusive.” However, after browsing through the list of available books, we seem to have access to earlier works as well, at least for the time being.

The best way to access OSO is to go the E-Research @ Harvard Libraries Page, http://e-research.lib.harvard.edu.  Type in “Oxford Scholarship Online” in the search box and click on “Go.”  You’ll retrieve a list of the various OSO collections.  Scroll down to the “Oxford Scholarship Online: Philosophy” link, and click on that.  You’ll be taken the Philosophy collection home page, where you can search or browse.

This e-resource has been heavily requested, so it’s nice to know that we now have access to it.

Just over a year ago, I wrote a post about MindPapers, an online bibliography of approximately 18,000 published papers and online papers in the philosophy of mind maintained by David Chalmers and David Bourget.  Chalmers maintains several directories of online philosophy papers on his Web site, with the help of others.

It seems that Chalmers and Bourget have a new philosophy paper directory project in mind, according to a recent post on Chalmers’ blog, Fragments of Consciousness:

Now back to philosophy.  Or at least, to philosophical taxonomy. David Bourget and I are finalizing a new project for access to online work in philosophy.  To a very rough first approximation it will be like MindPapers generalized to all of philosophy, although there will be many significant differences (it will be less ambitious in some respects, more ambitious in others).  More on that when it goes public, hopefully within the next month or so.

Chalmers and Bourget are requesting help with setting up and refining the taxonomy which they will be using to organize the papers.  So, if you would like to review the taxonomy and offered suggestions, take a look at Chalmers’ post for instructions on where and how to do so.

A hat-tip to Manuel Vargas, on The Garden of Forking Paths, for this information.

Breaking news: Back issues of the heavily-used and very important journal, Philosophical Studies, are now available to Harvard users via JSTOR.

At present, all back issues from 1950 (Vol. 1, no. 1) to 2004 (Vol. 121, no.3) can be accessed via JSTOR.

This means that we now have complete electronic access to the full run of the journal, through JSTOR, SpringerLink, and Academic Search Premier.

Let the rejoicing commence…

I’m writing to you today, to let you know about two new e-resources available to us here at Harvard.

The first is the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online.  I’ve had a number of requests to get electronic access to this resources, so I’m glad that we are finally able to offer it.

The second is the Cambridge Histories Online.  The most relevant ones for philosophy include:

• The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy
• The Cambridge History of Later Greek and Early Medieval Philosophy
• The Cambridge History of Later Medieval Philosophy
• The Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy
• The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy Vols. 1 & 2
• The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Philosophy, Vols. 1 & 2
• The Cambridge History of Philosophy 1870–1945

The full-text of the above books is available, in HTML or PDF format.

You’ll need your Harvard ID and PIN to access these resources.

Enjoy!

Disputatio aims at publishing first-rate articles and discussion notes on all aspects of analytical philosophy, but especially those dealing with current issues in the philosophies of language, logic, and mind, and also in epistemology and metaphysics, written in English or Portuguese.

The latest issue — Vol. II, no. 23 (November 2007) — is a special issue on normativity and rationality.  The list of articles includes:

• Introduction (Teresa Marques)
• Is Rationality Normative? (John Broome)
• Belief and Normativity (Pascal Engel)
• Intentionality, Knowledge and Formal Objects (Kevin Mulligan)
• Acting Without Reasons (Josep L. Prades)
• What is Normativity? (John Skorupski)

Looking at the archives, there is a lot of good stuff in this journal that my readers might want to considering reading.  (Much of the older materials are in Portuguese, though they seem to have moved over to a mostly English-language format in recent years.)

Additionally, I’ll add the journal to the blogroll, and a link on the Electronic Resources section of the Links page on the Department of Philosophy Web site.

E-access to the New York Review of Books has been heavily requested, and it’s nice to know that we now have access. Enjoy!