St. John's University Professor Launches Philosophy Research Website

Jamaica, NY - Dr. Richard Ingardia, Professor of Philosophy in St. John's University's College of Liberal Arts and Studies, has recently completed "Pilot Alpha," a web-based database on Aristotelian international scholarship from 1900 to the present day. With more than 40,000 entries, covering 33,000 articles and book reviews, 5,500 books and 1,500 Ph.D. dissertations in numerous languages, it is the most up-to-date, computer driven resource available to scholars on all phases of Aristotelian scholarship in the world. The site, www.aristotlebibliography.com, launched earlier this month.

"This database is the most comprehensive bibliographic research tool on Aristotelian scholarship," said Dr. Ingardia, a professor at the University's Staten Island campus. "From its scope and ease of use to its interactive features, the goal was to provide scholars and students with a unique and current computer driven research tool to help achieve scholarly objectives."

Dr. Ingardia's work has been both time-consuming and painstaking and has included research, translation, design, and database entry. In October alone, he added more than 500 new entries in various languages to the database and corrected and edited another 1,200 in various ways; verified more than 1,489 references for accuracy in various libraries, including St. John's University, Fordham University Library (Rose Hill campus), Arizona State University libraries (East and West divisions), and various academic libraries in Atlanta, Georgia. More than 400 more abstracts have been collected to be included in the second phase of the project.

Founded in 1870 by the Vincentian community, St. John's University has six schools and colleges. It offers associate, baccalaureate, master's, doctoral and professional degrees. The University enjoys an enrollment of more than 19,000 students and operates five campuses: in Queens, Staten Island, Manhattan and Oakdale in New York and in Rome, Italy.

For more information, please contact Jody Fisher, Director of Media Relations, at 718-990-6185 or at fisherjo@stjohns.edu. Dr. Ingardia can be reached at ingardir@stjohns.edu.