Philosophy

Coverage by subjects

The collection of monographs is organized into these macro-areas:  Topics of philosophy; Medieval philosophy; Modern and contemporary philosophy; Psychology; Psychoanalysis.

The main topics explored by the collection are: Ontology, Logic, Epistemology, Gnosiology, the main authors of medieval, modern and contemporary philosophical thought.

Authors' libraries relevant to Philosophy and the main topics represented

Eugenio Garin for the history of philosophy and the culture of Humanism and the Renaissance
Cesare Luporini e Maria Bianca Gallinaro for the history of modern and contemporary philosophy with particular reference to Marxism
Delio Cantimori for the history of modern and contemporary philosophy
Francesco Del Punta for the history of medieval philosophy
Sebastiano Timpanaro for the philosophical debate in Italy in the the twentieth century

Periodicals

Periodical literature enhances the resources available for this field of study; the periodicals department offers both a print collection available in open stacks and a digital collection of e-journals

Location

The open-shelf monograph collection is located in Pisa, on the ground floor of the Capitano site.

For the location of the authors' libraries, please refer to the dedicated entries in the section Personal collections and Authors' libraries.

The philosophy periodicals are part of the journals collection of Humanities, located at the Orologio-Carovana site (Palazzo della Carovana, ground floor and 1st floor).

New acquisitions

The list of new acquisitions is published in the SEARCH catalogue and includes titles acquired within the last two months.

Databases

Philosophy | Ancient philosophy | Medieval philosophy | Modern philosophy

Philosophy web resources.