Use this page to conduct advanced searches on the SEP. You can use the forms below the main search box to conduct restricted searches on the article titles or author names. You may also search with the Google search engine. At the bottom of the page you'll find some advanced tips on search syntax for the SEP search engine.

 

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• All queries are case insensitive.
• Find all entries with ‘Leibniz’: Leibniz
• Find all entries with either ‘Leibniz’ or ‘Sartre’: leibniz sartre
• Find all entries with both ‘Leibniz’ and ‘Sartre’: +leibniz +sartre
• Find all entries with ‘Leibniz’ and not ‘Sartre’: +leibniz -sartre
• Find all entries with a complete phrase (using quotes): "John of Salisbury"
• Find all entries by authors with name ‘Kevin’: author:Kevin
• Find all entries with Nietzsche in the title: title:Nietzsche
• Combine options. Find all entries with ‘John’ in the title and with an author name ‘Kevin’: +title:John +author:Kevin
• Wildcards. Find all entries with the string ‘Fre’ followed by any number of characters: title:Fre*