Start with keyword searches in Catalyst by entering words that describe your topic (names, places, events, etc.).

Strategy: When you find a book on your topic, examine its subject headings for relevance to your topic. Click on a hyperlinked subject heading to perform subject heading search and retrieve related books.

• Perform a subject heading search in Catalyst if you know a valid Library of Congress subject heading.

• Search "Philosophy" to browse a list of relevant subject headings, such as: Philosophy, Modern or Ethics.

Because works are classified so that similar items will be shelved together, browsing the shelves can be a useful way to figure out what the library in a given field of study.  Below are some call number ranges relevant to the study of Philosophy:

• B 1-99  Philosophy (general works)
• B 108-708  Ancient philosophy
• B 720-765  Medieval philosophy
• B 770-785 Renaissance philosophy
• B790-5802 Modern philosophy
• BC Logic
• BD  Speculative philosophy (including metaphysics, epistemology, methodology, ontology, cosmology)
• BJ Ethics

• Ethics

• Feminism

• Feminist Criticism

• Feminist Theory

• Gender Identity

• Metaphysics

• Philosophy

• Women