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Attfield, R (2014), Environment ethics: an overview for the twenty-first century, 2nd ed. Cambridge: Polity
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| 100 | Philosophy - general works |
| 110 | Metaphysics |
| 111 | Ontology |
| 111.85 | Aesthetics |
| 120 | Other metaphysical theories |
| 121 | Epistemology, Theory of Knowledge |
| 126 | Consciousness and personality |
| 128 | Mind, Soul |
| 140 | Philosophical systems, doctrines |
| 149.94 | Semantic Philosophy |
| 149.96 | Structuralism |
| 149.97 | Postmodernism |
| 160 | Logic |
| 170 | Ethics |
| 171.5 | Utilitarian ethics |
| 174 | Occupational ethics |
| 174.2 | Bioethics |
| 179.1 | Environmental ethics |
| 179.7 | Suicide/Medical ethics |
| 181 | Eastern philosophy |
| 182-188 | Ancient Western philosophy |
| 190 | Modern Western philosophy |
| 200 | Religion |
3rd Floor |
| 500 | Science |
| 501 | Philosophy of science |
| 509 | History of science |
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Abortion 179.76
Altruism 171.8
Ancient philosophy 180
American Philosophers 191
Animal cruelty/Animal rights 179.3
Aristotle’s philosophy 185.1
Beauty 111.85
Belief and doubt 121.6
British Philosophers 192
Business ethics 174
Canadian Philosophers 191
Cause and effect 122
Christian morality 171.1
Christian philosophy, theories 201
Citizenship 172.1
Cognition 153
Conscience 171.6
Cosmology 113
Critical philosophy 142
Death 128.5
Determinism 123
Dreams 135.3
Ethics 170
Evolutionary ethics 171.7
Existentialism 111.1
Family ethics 173
Freedom and necessity 123
French Philosophers 194
Friendship 177.6
German and Austrian Philosophers 193
God, theories about 211
Happiness, Hedonism 171.4
History of philosophy 109
Human nature 128.3
Humanism 144
Indian philosophy 181.4
Induction 161
Islamic philosophy 181.947
Jewish philosophy 181.3
Language of philosophy 101.4 & 412
Logic 160
Love 177.6
Materialism 146.3
Mathematical logic 164
Medieval Western philosophy 189
Medical ethics 170.42
Metaethics 179.7
Memory 154
Mind and body 130.1
Modern Western philosophy 190
Morality 171
Mysticism 149.3
Mythology, Comparative 291
Natural theology 210
Naturalism 146
Optimism 149.5
Oriental philosophy 181
Pacifism 172.4
Paradoxes 165
Philosophy of religion 201
Plato’s philosophy 184.1
Political ethics 172
Positivism 146.4
Postmodernism 149.97
Pre-Socratic Philosophy 182
Prohibition 178.5
Psychology of religion 201.6
Punishment 179
Rationalism 149.7
Reasoning 135.6
Scepticism 149.73
Science and religion 215
Semantics in philosophy 149.94 & 412
Sexual Ethics 176
Social ethics 177
Soul 128 & 129
Sophistic & Socratic Philosophy 183
Stoic Philosophers 188
Structuralism 149.96
Suicide 179.7
Symbolic logic 511.3
Transcendentalism 141.3
Utilitarianism 144.6
Values 121.8
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