Center Library

The Western Michigan University Center for the Study of Ethics in Society maintains a small library of works in ethics and philosophy. Students, faculty and staff may check out books for four weeks. To check out a book, stop by the center during office hours. Book donations are welcome.

The collection may be searched by author, title or the following subject categories:

• Biomedical ethics
  Bioethics anthologies, health care issues and end-of-life decisions.
• Business ethics
  Anthologies, corporate responsibility, and managerial and employee rights.
• Critical reasoning
  Books on critical reasoning, argument analysis and logic.
• General ethics
  General ethics anthologies and introduction to ethics books.
• General philosophy
  Introduction to philosophy books, classic works, philosophy of science and epistemology, and political philosophy.
• Journals
  Copies of journals owned by the center, both general philosophy and ethics specifically.
• Legal philosophy
  Books in general legal philosophy.
• Social ethics
  Philosophy of public policy as well as race, gender and class issues.
• Other ethics
  Books on specific topics, including academic and children’s ethics, environmental ethics, ethics and religion, war, communications and journalism, revenge, and lying.