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Philosophy

This guide will provide resources and assistance to students majoring, minoring, and/or taking classes in Philosophy within the Department of Religion & Philosophy.

Books in the Library

Books from OhioLINK

Catalog Searching

Use the Otterbein Library homepage to perform a subject search in the main library catalog. Try some of these subject headings:

Video Resources

The Great Philosophers series by the BBC contains 15 documentaries covering influential philosophers and topics from antiquity to the 20th century. These films can be viewed via the OhioLINK Digital Resource Commons.

  • Schopenhauer
  • Aristotle
  • Thomas Aquinas
  • Spinoza and Leibniz
  • Nietzsche
  • Kant
  • Plato
  • Wittgenstein
  • Descartes
  • Hume
  • Husserl, Heidegger and Modern Existentialism
  • Frege, Russell and Modern Logic
  • Hegel and Marx
  • Locke and Berkeley

Philosophy Index

A word cloud image with the word Philosophy in the center. The other words relate to the field and include, but are not limited to, orthodox, dualism, meaning, knowledge, and metaphysics.

Philosophy Index - Free full philosophy texts from across the ages, including Aristotle, Plato, Socrates, Descartes, Kant, Spinoza, Rousseau, and Wittgenstein.