Philosophy: Find Primary documents

Primary Resources: Philosophy

InteLex Past Masters
Scholarly editions of primary sources in both the original language and English translation. They cover the complete works, including unpublished materials, of influential figures in the humanities and social sciences, along with their articles, essays, and correspondence.
Access is restricted to current students, faculty, staff, and alumni of the University of Saskatchewan, and walk-in users, for educational, research, and non-commercial personal use. Systematic copying or downloading of electronic resource content is not permitted by Canadian and international copyright law.
Early English Books Online (EEBO)
A full-text collection containing scanned images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, British North America, and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700. Draws from four bibliographical resources: Pollard & Redgraves Short-Title Catalogue, Wings Short-Title Catalogue, Thomason Tracts, and the Early English Books Tract Supplement. Some transcribed texts are available. The USask Library also has this collection on microfilm.
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Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO I & II)
Digital image collection covering "every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in Great Britain during the eighteenth century, along with thousands of important works from the Americas." Based on the English Short Title Catalogue, this set includes collections of women writers of the eighteenth century, collections on the French Revolution, and numerous eighteenth-century editions of the works of Shakespeare.
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Proquest One Literature
More comprehensive than LiOn, doubling the citations, tripling the journals, and adding sources of historic literary criticism, eBooks, dissertations, videos, reference materials, and primary texts.
Access is restricted to current students, faculty, and staff of the University of Saskatchewan, and walk-in users, for educational, research, and non-commercial personal use. Systematic copying or downloading of electronic resource content is not permitted by Canadian and international copyright law.
Early English Books Online (EEBO)
A full-text collection containing scanned images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, British North America, and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700. Draws from four bibliographical resources: Pollard & Redgraves Short-Title Catalogue, Wings Short-Title Catalogue, Thomason Tracts, and the Early English Books Tract Supplement. Some transcribed texts are available. The USask Library also has this collection on microfilm.
Access is restricted to current students, faculty, and staff of the University of Saskatchewan, and walk-in users, for educational, research, and non-commercial personal use. Systematic copying or downloading of electronic resource content is not permitted by Canadian and international copyright law.

Montaigne Project
Facsimile and text editions of Montaigne's Essais.
Philosource
Seven collections including Pre-Socratic, Socratic, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein and "the early modern age".
Project Gutenberg - Philosophy (Bookshelf)
Project Gutenberg offers over 50,000 free ebooks.
Perseus Digital Library
Primary and secondary sources for the study of ancient Greece and Rome.
Some Texts from Early Modern Philosophy
On this site you will find versions of some classics of early modern philosophy, and a few from the 19th century, prepared with a view to making them easier to read while leaving intact the main arguments, doctrines, and lines of thought.
English Philosophical Texts Online
A free online library of early modern English-language philosophical texts.
Hume Texts Online
Hume Texts Online is a free and open access collection of works by the great Enlightenment thinker, David Hume, together with bibliographies and links to Hume scholarship on the web.

Primary sources

Primary sources of information are original materials that often convey new ideas, discoveries, or information. These sources originate from the time period under study. Examples of primary sources include:

original research studies (often in the form of journal articles in peer-reviewed publications), also called empirical studies (e.g. psychology)
patents, technical reports
original documents such as diaries, letters, emails, manuscripts, lab data/notes
newspaper articles from the time period under study
autobiographies, first-person accounts, case studies
artifacts and archival material such as official documents, minutes recorded by government agencies and organizations, photographs, coins, fossils, natural specimens
works of art such as literature, music, architecture, or painting

TIP: What is considered primary, secondary, or tertiary information may vary according to your field of study. When in doubt, ask your professor.