About Us

The Philosophy Faculty Library is the main University provider for loans in philosophy, at both taught course and research-level, to undergraduates, graduate students and senior members.

The Philosophy Library purchases almost all its holdings, and intentionally duplicates many books and journals also held in the reference collections in the Bodleian. It has a book stock of 27,000 volumes (15,000 titles): multiple copies are provided of frequently-used books.

The library also houses the Fowler collection of antiquarian logic books (in trust for the Wykeham Professor of Logic), and the Shadworth Hollway Hodgson collection of 19thC. Philosophy (on loan from Corpus Christi College).

A video collection of philosophers in conversation, including Davidson, Strawson, Quine and Habermas, can also be viewed at the Library.