Helpful Links

We as students know how difficult it can be to find the right infos on your study. That is why we collect helpful links here!

This Link will take you to the Website of the Departement for Philosophy at the University of Zurich. There you can find information on the offered courses, on curret research and events.
If you click here, you will find the online blog Philosophie.ch, with a lot of interesting blog posts on Swiss philosophy.
If you need to know how the philosophy courses are structured at the University of Zurich, take a look at the respective  webpage of the Departement for Philosophy or at the legal information ("Rechtsgrundlagen" of the Faculty for Arts and Social Sciences.
You are about to finish your study or you want to check the course of your study so far? Here, you will find information on your Study Progress Report, including detailed video tutorials.

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is a renowed online encyclopedia for philosophers. Written in English, the articles are authored by experts and are a great way to start of your research! The articles are published open-access, meaning everyone can read them. This website offers a visualisation of the online encyklopedia by portraying similar articles in a network.
The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy is another open-access, online encyclopedia for philosophy, written in English.
philpapers is a extensive overview of philosophical research literature. Related to it is  philpeople, a sort of social media for philosophers.
If you are looking for resources in Switzerland's scientific libraries, we recommend swisscovery. The national library plattform combines information from 470 Swiss libraries (as per 15.02.21). A lot of resources can be viewed online, as long as you are conecting to the internet over a participating institution like the University of Zurich. Using a VPN, you can also view online resources from home.
The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy is another excellent online encyclopedia in English. Not all articles are open-access, so you need to use the university's network or the VPN from home. 
On Oxford Bibliographiesyou can find lists or literature references, commentated in great detail, on many topics! That way, you get a great overview of the relevant literature on a few pages. To use the service for free requires a connection with the UZH-network or the VPN.
The online journal Philosophy Compass publishes survey articles of philosophical debates on a monthly basis.
JSTOR is a huge online archive for all sorts of scientific journals. If you are looking for an article, more likely than not, JSTOR will have it. Once again, you need to connect with the UZH-network or the VPN to use it.

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