Finding Books - PHIL 4050 - Senior Thesis Seminar (FALL 2023)

CLIO Catalog Searching

Finding Books and Media

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Beyond Barnard and Columbia

Borrow Direct or Interlibrary Loan are great options for requesting a book that isn't currently available at the Columbia libraries.

Worldcat searches libraries worldwide. Using Worldcat, you can quickly find out if an item might be available at the NYPL, or another academic library (if the latter, try Borrow Direct or ILL to request from off campus).

The NYPL catalog searches the circulating and non-circulating research collections at the New York Public Library. The Archives and Manuscripts search page allows for exploration of special collections.

Call Numbers in Philosophy

B1-5802 Philosophy (General)

B69-99 General works
B108-5802 By period.

Including individual philosophers and schools of philosophy

B108-708 Ancient
B720-765 Medieval
B770-785 Renaissance
B790-5802 Modern

B808-849 Special topics and schools of philosophy
B850-5739 By region or country
B5800-5802 By religion

BC1-199 Logic

BC11-39 History

BC25-39 By period

BD10-701 Speculative Philosophy

BD10-41 General philosophical works
BD95-131 Metaphysics
BD143-237 Epistemology. Theory of knowledge
BD240-260 Methodology
BD300-450 Ontology

Including being, the soul, life, death

BD493-701 Cosmology

Including teleology, space and time, structure of matter, plurality of worlds

BH: Aesthetics

BH1-301 Aesthetics

BH81-208 History
BH301 Special topics

BJ: Ethics
BJ1-1725 Ethics

BJ71-1185 History and general works

Including individual ethical philosophers

BJ1188-1295 Religious ethics
BJ1298-1335 Evolutionary and genetic ethics
BJ1365-1385 Positivist ethics
BJ1388 Socialist ethics
BJ1390-1390.5 Communist ethics
BJ1392 Totalitarian ethics
BJ1395 Feminist ethics
BJ1518-1697 Individual ethics. Character. Virtue

Including practical and applied ethics, conduct of life, vices, success, ethics for children

BJ1725 Ethics of social groups, classes, etc. Professional ethics
BJ1801-2195 Social usages. Etiquette

BJ2021-2078 Etiquette of entertaining
BJ2139-2156 Etiquette of travel
BJ2195 Telephone etiquette

Philosophy of / and …

AZ 101 The Humanities
BF 41-50 Psychology
BL 51 Religion
BP 595 Anthroposophy
BT 40-50 Theology
CB 19 Civilization
CN 40 Epigraphy
D 16.7-9 History
G 70 Geography
GF 21 Human ecology
GN 405 Cultural relativism
GN 470 Primitive philosophy
GV 342 Athletics
GV 706 Sports
GV 1507.P43 Philosophical recreations
H 61 Social sciences
HB 71 Economics
HM 26-33 Sociology
K 201-487 Law
LB 2386 Doctor of philosophy degree
ML 3800-3920 Music
N 61-79 Art
P 101-105 Language
P 151-295 Grammar
PN 45 Literature
PN 49 Philosophy in literature
PN 6231.P47 Philosophy - Humor
PR 2986 William Shakespeare
Q 173-5 Science
Q 325 Conscious automata
QA 9 Mathematics
QA 269 Game theory
QC 6 Physics
QH 323.5 Statistical biology
QH 331 Biology
QH 361 Evolution
R 723-725 Medicine
T 14 Technology

Religious Philosophy

BL 240.2 Religion and Science
BL 2700-2790 Rationalism in Religion
BP 134.P5 Koran and Philosophy
BQ 282 Buddhism -History- Philosophy
BQ 4040 Buddhism - Philosophy
BQ 4440 Buddhism - Knowledge, theory
BR 100-110 Christianity - Philosophy
BT 98-108 God, Proof of

Psychological Philosophy

BF 41-47 Philosophy of Psychology
BF 81-109 History, Origins of Psychology
BF 110-118 Early works through 1850
BF 121-149 Works 1850 -
BF 150-171 Mind and Body
BF 199 Behaviorism
BF 203 Gestalt
BF 204.5 Phenomenological psychology
BF 309-315 Cognition
BF 467-475 Time. Space. Causality.
BF 608-628 Will. Determinism.
QP 376-426 Brain/physiology & psychology
QP 411 Consciousness