Research guides: VIC135 The Death of Meaning: Scholarly Articles

Databases for philosophy articles

Philosopher's Index This link opens in a new window
A bibliographic database offering informative, author-written abstracts covering scholarly research in all areas of philosophy. The literature covered goes back to 1940 and includes journal articles, books, book chapters such as contributions to an anthology and book reviews.
PhilPapers This link opens in a new window
Philosophical citation information and abstracts, including journals, books, open access archives, and personal pages maintained by academics.

You can also use the advanced search of LibrarySearch (off the Library homepage) to find articles, book chapters and more.

Below is a sample search strategy employing quotation marks for multi-word terms and the * to retrieve terms with variations in the word ending.

Ulrichsweb
If you are not sure whether a journal article is peer-reviewed or not, this database is very helpful. You simply enter the title of the journal in which the article appears and look in the appropriate column.
For 'peer reviewed' they use the term 'refereed'.