Use AND to connect words that must appear in a document. This *narrows* your search.
empathy OR compassion
Use OR if only one word must appear in a document. This *broadens* your search.
empath*
Use an asterisk to truncate a word and allow for different endings, for example, empathy, empathic, empathize, etc.
"human kindness"
Use quotation marks to enclose a phrase or words that must appear together in a document.
hermitage NOT museum
Use NOT to exclude words or terms from a search. (If you're looking for articles on a hermitage in a landscape garden, you don't want articles on the Hermitage museum in St Petersburg.)
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A current and comprehensive bibliographic database covering scholarly research in all major fields of philosophy. It contains research published since 1940
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