Important
To reference this document please use:
Love, T. (1997). Appendix 3 of Social, Environmental and Ethical Factors in Engineering Design Theory: A Post Positivist Approach. Unpublished PhD thesis, University of Western Australia, Perth.
The books associated with design research referred to in this thesis were, in the main, found under the Dewey call numbers in Table 1.
Table 1: Dewey call numbers and categories for the focal and background literature of this thesis relating to design.
Dewey Call Number |
Dewey Category |
003 |
Generalities; systems |
004 |
Generalities; data processing |
005 |
Generalities; computer programming |
006 |
Generalities; special computer methods |
007 |
Generalities; no longer used |
094 |
Printed books |
153 |
Psychology; mental processes and intelligence |
191 |
Modern Western Psychology; ZZZZ |
300 |
Social Sciences |
301 |
Social Sciences; sociology and anthropology |
307 |
Social Sciences; communities |
309 |
Social Sciences; social science |
363 |
Social Services; other social problems and services |
368 |
Social Services; insurances |
371 |
Education; school management special education |
501 |
Mathematics; philosophy and theory |
512 |
Mathematics; Algebra and number theory |
517 |
Mathematics |
519 |
Mathematics; probabilities and applied mathematics |
532 |
Physics; fluid mechanics; liquid mechanics |
541 |
Chemistry and allied sciences; physical and theoretical chemistry |
550 |
Earth sciences |
573 |
Life sciences; physical anthropology |
601 |
Technology (Applied Sciences); philosophy and theory |
604 |
Technology (Applied Sciences); special topics |
606 |
Technology (Applied Sciences); organisations |
607 |
Technology (Applied Sciences); education, research, related topics |
608 |
Technology (Applied Sciences); invention and patents |
609 |
Technology (Applied Sciences); historical, areas, persons treatment |
615 |
Medical Sciences Medicine; pharmacology and therapeutics |
616 |
Medical Sciences Medicine; Diseases |
620 |
Engineering and Allied Operations |
621 |
Engineering and Allied Operations; applied physics |
624 |
Engineering and Allied Operations; civil engineering |
627 |
Engineering and Allied Operations; hydraulic engineering |
629 |
Engineering and Allied Operations; other branches of engineering |
636 |
Agriculture; animal husbandry |
658 |
Management and auxiliary services; general management |
660 |
Chemical engineering |
709 |
The Arts; historical, areas, persons treatment |
711 |
Civic and landscape art; area planning (civic art) |
720 |
Architecture |
725 |
Architecture; public structures |
727 |
Architecture; buildings for education and research |
729 |
Architecture; design and decoration |
745 |
Drawing and decorative arts; decorative arts |
The literature relating to design can also be found under the Dewey call numbers and categories of Table 2.
Table 2: Additional Dewey call numbers and categories that apply to aspects of the literature of design research
Dewy Call Number |
Dewey Categories |
100 |
Philosophy and psychology |
101 |
Philosophy and psychology; theory of philosophy |
120 |
Epistemology, causation, humankind |
121 |
Epistemology, causation, humankind; epistemology (theory of knowledge) |
126 |
Epistemology, causation, humankind; the self |
127 |
Epistemology, causation, humankind; the unconscious and the sub conscious |
140 |
Special philosophical schools |
142 |
Special philosophical schools; critical philosophy |
144 |
Special philosophical schools; humanism and related systems |
148 |
Special philosophical schools; Liberalism, eclecticism, traditionalism |
149 |
Special philosophical schools; other philosophical systems |
150 |
Psychology |
152 |
Psychology; perception, movement |
154 |
Psychology; subconscious and altered states |
158 |
Psychology; applied psychology |
160 |
Logic |
161 |
Logic; induction |
162 |
Logic; deduction |
165 |
Logic; fallacies and sources of error |
167 |
Logic; hypotheses |
168 |
Logic; argument and persuasion |
169 |
Logic; analogy |
170 |
Ethics |
171 |
Ethics; systems and doctrines |
174 |
Ethics; economic and professional ethics |
178 |
Ethics; ethics of consumption |
179 |
Ethics; other ethical norms |
190 |
Modern Western Philosophy |
400 |
Language |
401 |
Language; philosophy and theory |
410 |
Language; linguistics |
Table 1 and Table 2 above indicate the wide range of categories that different elements or aspects of design research have been or can be classified in.