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Thoroughly revised and expanded, this guide to the reference literature is the only up-to-date guide in the field and is by far the most extensively annotated. It covers all areas of Western and Eastern philosophy, emphasizing recent English-language publications but including some older and foreign-language sources. More than 450 reference works, about a third of them new to this edition, are listed, described, and often evaluated. Special chapters cover core periodicals and major organizations and research centers. Designed as an aid in reference work and collection development for librarians, this book will also be of interest to theologians, professional philosophers, philosophy instructors, and philosophy students.

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On first blush it might be assumed that another guide to the literature of philosophy is not justified because two earlier guides adequately do the job-R.T. DeGeorge's The Philosopher's Guide (1980) and Terrence N. Tice and Thomas P. Slavens's Research Guide to Philosophy (CH, Jun '84). This assumption is false. DeGeorge's book could use updating and has few annotations, although it is still extremely useful because of its breadth of coverage. The guide by Tice and Slavens is also quite useful, although it is really a long philosophical/historical essay with an attached bibliography. Bynagle's book has much to recommend it, primarily that it covers exclusively an area not well covered by the two other guides mentioned-namely, reference materials in philosophy. Reference sources cannot be separated out at all in DeGeorge and the Tice and Slavens volume contains only 54 reference entries. Bynagle, on the other hand, lists 421 reference works, each superbly annotated; it also contains a chapter on various philosophy organizations and both an author/title and a subject index. College, university, and large public libraries will need Bynagle's guide for its reference coverage, retaining the other guides for their wider coverage of philosophical works.-W.E. Hannaford Jr., Castleton State College