New to St Thomas Libraries! POIESIS Philosophy Online
The opening search screen in this database divides journal titles between those in full text and those that are only indexed. But the SEARCH box works across all the titles, like other ordinary library databases. This SEARCH is the best way to use this database, unless you want to “browse” specific publications.

The basic search defaults to a search term anywhere, which is problematic in full-text collections. (In Advanced Search, you can limit to title, author, or abstract, but there is no subject indexing. Relevance seems controlled by term frequency and proximity).

We now have two philosophy indexes for research. On the one hand, Philosopher’s Index remains our major one since it covers many more journals than POIESIS. On the other hand, POIESIS provides exclusive full text access and full text searching for a number of journals of special interest to St Thomas students and faculty.

• American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly
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  Augustinian Studies
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  Faith and Philosophy
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  International Philosophical Quarterly
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  Journal for Peace and Justice Studies
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  Philosophy & Theology
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  Proceedings of the
  American Catholic Philosophical Association

Some More Philosophy E-Resources

• JSTOR Archive
• Project Muse Journals
• Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Gale Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• New Dictionary of the History of Ideas

BONUS: And why is it called POIESIS ?
Poïesis is etymologically derived from the ancient Greek term ποιέω, which means “to make”. This word, the root of our modern “poetry”, was first a verb, an action that transforms and continues the world. Neither technical production nor creation in the romantic sense, poïetic work reconciles thought with matter and time, and man with the world