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Finding PHIL Books

Philosophy books are shelved in the Central Library, mainly on Level 9, at B-BD, BH and BJ. We use the Library of Congress classification system for arrangement.

As philosophy is also related to other subjects, many other philosophy books can be found with those subjects. For example, political philosophy is mainly classified with political science at JA and JC, on Level 4.

Every item in the Library has a unique call number which can be found by using the Library Catalogue.

Books which are in high demand for particular courses are held on Restricted Loan. To see the list for your course, type the course code into the Course code search in the Library Catalogue, eg phil 132

Course Code

 

Guide to call numbers for Philosophy

B-BD, BH, BJ Philosophy - Level 9

B

Philosophy (general)

For general philosophical treatises and introductions to philosophy, see: subclass BD
B 1-8 Periodicals. Serials
B 11-18 Societies
B 20-29 Collected works (nonserial)
B 31-35 Yearbooks. Directories
B 40-51 Reference works (general)
B 40-48 Dictionaries
B 49-50 Terminology. Nomenclature
B 51 Encyclopedias
B 52 Study and teaching. Research

B 69-5739

History and systems, incl. individual philosophers and schools of philosophy

B 69-99 General works
B 104 Collective biography
B 105 Special topics, A-Z
B 108-5739 History and systems - by period
B 108-708 Ancient philosophy (600BCE-430CE)
B 125-128 Ancient Chinese philosophy
B 130-133 Ancient Indian philosophy
B 154-162 Ancient Oriental philosophy, by religion

B 165-491

Ancient Greek philosophy

B 165 Collected works
B 168-175 General works
B 187 Special topics, A-Z
B 187.5 Pre-Socratic philosophers
B 188-258 First period
B 265-320 Second period
B 310-318 Socrates
B 335-491 Third period
B 350-398 Plato
B 400-491 Aristotle
B 504-623 Greco-Roman philosophy
B 630-708 Alexandrian and early Christian philosophy

B 720-765

Medieval philosophy (430-1450)

B 740-753 Arabian and Moorish philosophers. Islamic philosophers
B 755-759 Jewish philosophers
B 765 European philosophers
B 765 .T5- Thomas Aquinas
B 770-785 Renaissance philosophy
B 785 .E6- Erasmus
B 785 .G2- Galileo

B 790-5739

Modern philosophy (1450/1600- )

B 801 17th century
B 802 18th century. Philosophy of the Enlightenment
B 803 19th century, incl. works combining 19th & early 20th c.
B 804 20th century
B 808-846 Special topics and schools of philosophy
B 850-5739 Modern philosophers by country

B 850-945

United States

B 945 .D4- John Dewey
B 945 .J2- William James
B 945 .P4- C.S. Peirce
B 945 .Q5- W.V. Quine
B 945 .S23- George Santayana

B 1111-1682

Great Britain

B 1131-1299 17th century
B 1150-1199 Francis Bacon
B 1203-1248 Thomas Hobbes
B 1250-1298 John Locke
B 1300-1398 18th century
B 1303-1349 George Berkeley
B 1401-1559 Scottish philosophers, 18th & early 19th c.
B 1450-1499 David Hume
B 1561-1682 19th-20th centuries
B 1574 .B3- Jeremy Bentham
B 1600-1608 John Stuart Mill
B 1649 .P64- Karl Popper
B 1649 .R9 Bertrand Russell
B 1674 .W35- Alfred North Whitehead

B 1801-2430

France

B 1815-1907 17th century
B 1830-1878 Rene Descartes
B 1880-1888 Pierre Gassendi
B 1890-1898 Nicolas Malebranche
B 1900-1904 Blaise Pascal
B 1911-2179 18th century
B 2010-2018 Denis Diderot
B 2130-2138 Jean Jacques Rousseau
B 2185-2417 19th century
B 2200-2249 Auguste Comte
B 2421-2430 20th century
B 2430 .A472- Louis Althusser
B 2430 .B4- Henri Bergson
B 2430 .D481- Jacques Derrida
B 2430 .F72- Michel Foucault
B 2430 .M564- Maurice Merleau-Ponty
B 2430 .S2- Jean-Paul Sartre
B 2430 .T35- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
B 2430 .W47- Simone Weil

B 2521-3396

Germany/Austria

B 2535-2611 17th century
B 2550-2599 G.W. Leibniz
B 2615-3177 18th - early 19th centuries
B 2750-2799 Immanuel Kant
B 2800-2849 J.G. Fichte
B 2850-2899 F.W.J. Schelling
B 2900-2949 G.W.F. Hegel
B 3100-3149 Arthur Schopenhauer
B 3180-3396 Later 19th - 20th centuries
B 3199 .A33- Theodor W. Adorno
B 3213 .B86- Martin Buber
B 3245 .F2- Gottlob Frege
B 3248 .G34- Hans Georg Gadamer
B 3258 .H322- Jurgen Habermas
B 3279 .H46- Martin Heidegger
B 3279 .H9 Edmund Husserl
B 3305 .M34-74 Karl Marx
B 3310-3318 Friedrich Nietzsche
B 3376 .W5- Ludwig Wittgenstein

B 3500-4875

Other modern European philosophy

B 3551-3656 Italy
B 3580-3583 Giambattista Vico
B 3801-4030 Netherlands (Low countries)
B 3950-3999 Benedictus de Spinoza
B 4301-4495 Scandinavia
B 4370-4378 Soren Kierkegaard
B 4811-4815 Hungary
B 4815 .L954- Gyorgy Lukacs

B 5000+

Modern philosophy of other regions/countries

B 5130-5134 India
B 5230-5234 China
B 5240-5244 Japan
B 5300-5679 Africa
B 5700-5704 Australia
B 5710-5714 New Zealand

BC

Logic

BC 1 Periodicals. Serials
BC 6 Collected works
BC 11-39 History
BC 25-39 By period
BC 50-59 Philosophy. Methodology. Relation to other topics
BC 60-99 General works, treatises, and advanced textbooks
BC 60-78 Deductive logic
BC 80-99 Inductive and empirical logic
BC 101-117 Elementary textbooks. Outlines, syllabi, etc.
BC 131-135 Symbolic and mathematical logic
BC 141 Logic of chance. Probability
BC 145 Deontic logic
BC 171 Truth and error. Certitude
BC 175 Fallacies
BC 177 Reasoning, argumentation, etc.
BC 181 Propositions. Prediction. Judgement
BC 199 Other special topics, A-Z

BD

Speculative philosophy

BD 10-41 General works, incl. introductions to philosophy
BD 95-131 Metaphysics
BD 100-118 General works, treatises, and advanced textbooks
BD 131 Elementary textbooks. Outlines, syllabi, etc.
BD 143-237 Epistemology. Theory of knowledge
BD 150-168 General works
BD 171 Truth. Error. Certitude, etc.
BD 175 Epistemology and sociology. Sociology of knowledge
BD 175.5 Special topics, A-Z (eg. .P65, Political correctness)
BD 177 Epistemology and evolution
BD 181 Origin and sources of knowledge
BD 215 Belief. Faith
BD 220 Objectivity
BD 221-223 Relativity of knowledge, inc. Subjectivity. Subject
BD 232 Value. Worth
BD 236 Comparison. Resemblance. Identity
BD 240-260 Methodology
BD 300-450 Ontology
BD 300-318 General works
BD 331 Being. Nature of reality. Substance. First philosophy
BD 418 Mind
BD 430-435 Life
BD 436 Love
BD 444 Death
BD 450 Philosophical anthropology
BD 493-701 Cosmology
BD 500-518 General works
BD 530-595 Teleology. Causation. Final cause. Design and purpose
BD 530-548 General works
BD 573 Philosophy of religion
BD 581 Philosophy of nature
BD 591 Cause and effect
BD 632 Space and time
BD 638 Time. Beginning

BH

Aesthetics

BH 1-8 Periodicals. Serials.
BH 21-28 Collected works (nonserial)
BH 39 Philosophy. Methodology. Relation to other topics
BH 41 Special methods
BH 81 History
BH 181-188 18th century
BH 191-198 19th century
BH 201-208 20th century
BH 221 By region or country
BH 221 .F8- France
BH 221 .G3- Germany
BH 221 .G7- Great Britain
BH 301 Special topics, A-Z

BJ

Ethics

BJ 21-28 Collected works (nonserial)
BJ 37 Philosophy. Methodology. Relation to other topics
BJ 41 Relation to speculative philosophy
BJ 45 Relation to psychology. Morale
BJ 46 Relation to aesthetics (Art, literature, etc.)
BJ 47 Relation to religion and the supernatural
BJ 51 Relation to history and sociology
BJ 55 Relation to law and politics
BJ 63 Dictionaries. Encyclopedias
BJ 71-78+ History
BJ 101-224 Ancient period
BJ 116-118 China and Japan
BJ 121-123 India
BJ 160-224 Greece and Rome
BJ 191-194 Second period (to about 300BCE)
BJ 301-982 Modern period
BJ 319 20th century
BJ 351-982 By region or country
BJ 601-604 Great Britain
BJ 701-704 France
BJ 1001-1012 General works (English)
BJ 1005 1701-1800
BJ 1008 1861-1900
BJ 1011 1901-1960
BJ 1012 1961-
BJ 1021-1025 Elementary textbooks. Outlines, syllabi, etc.
BJ 1031 Special aspects of the subject as a whole
BJ 1051-1114 General works in other languages
BJ 1188-1295 Religious ethics. The ethics of the religions
BJ 1188.5-1278 Christian ethics
BJ 1201-1231 History, by period
BJ 1240-1258 General works, treatises, and advanced textbooks
BJ 1240-1248 Early through 1800
BJ 1249-1258 1801-
BJ 1275-1278 Special aspects
BJ 1279-1295 Ethics of other religions
BJ 1279-1287 Jewish ethics
BJ 1289 Buddhist ethics
BJ 1291-1292 Islamic ethics
BJ 1298-1395 Secular ethics
BJ 1298-1335 Evolutionary and genetic ethics
BJ 1360 Humanist ethics
BJ 1388-1390 Socialist and communist ethics
BJ 1395 Feminist ethics
BJ 1400-1500 Special topics
BJ 1400-1408 Good and evil
BJ 1450-1458 Duty. Obligation. Responsibility
BJ 1460-1468.5 Freedom of the Will. Necessitarianism
BJ 1474 Altruism and egotism. Self-interest and egoism
BJ 1480-1486 Happiness and joy
BJ 1500 Other special topics, A-Z
BJ 1518-1697 Individual ethics. Character. Virtue
BJ 1520-1528 General works
BJ 1531 Special aspects of the subject as a whole
BJ 1533 Special virtues, A-Z
BJ 1535 Special vices, A-Z
BJ 1545-1697 Practical and applied ethics. Conduct of life, etc.
BJ 1550-1588 General works
BJ 1595 Special aspects of the subject as a whole
BJ 1725- Ethics of social groups, classes, etc.
BJ 1725 Professional ethics
BJ 1801-2195 Social usages. Etiquette
      
     

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