For Graduates
Philosophy C2: Empiricism and Rationalism: Philosophy in the seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries—Descartes, Spinoza, Leibnitz, Locke, Berkeley,
and Hume.
Professor Balz and Assistant Professor Dent.
Philosophy C3: Recent Philosophical Systems: A study of the philosophical
thought of recent decades through the reading and discussion of
various systematic works.
Professors Balz and Buchanan, Assistant Professors Dent and Davenport.
Philosophy C4-C5: Reading Course: (Required of all candidates for the
Master's degree.) The candidate for the Master's degree shall select, subject to
approval, two primary historical systems for independent study under tutorial
guidance. An examination (oral, written, or both) must be taken in April or
May of the session in which the candidate expects to secure the degree.
Philosophy C9: Modern Logical Theory.
Assistant Professor Davenport.
Philosophy C11: (Biblical Literature C1): Any two B courses in Biblical
Literature or Philosophy prerequisite.—An investigation of the Jewish and Hellenistic
elements entering into the theology of Christianity during the first two
centuries.
Professor Forrest.
Philosophy C12: The Theory of Value.
Assistant Professor Dent.
Philosophy C15: Mathematical and Physical Concepts: The logic and
the metaphysical implications of quantitative science.
Professor Sparrow.
Philosophy D1: Kant.
Professor Balz.
Philosophy D2: Nineteenth-Century Philosophical Systems.
Professor Balz.
(Philosophy D1 and D2 will be given in alternate years.)
Philosophy D3: The Aristotelean Tradition.
Professor Buchanan.
Philosophy D4: The Platonic Tradition.
Professor Buchanan.
(Philosophy D3 and D4 will be given in alternate years.)
Philosophy D5: Research.
Special Requirements for the Master's Degree in Philosophy: The candidate
must include Philosophy C4-C5 in his program; the candidate must present
evidence, not later than one year before the degree is conferred, that he
possesses a reading knowledge of either French or German.
Special Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy:
1. Preliminary written examinations, designed to test the candidate's general
equipment in the field of philosophy, must be taken before formal admission to
candidacy. The examinations will be judged as a whole. They will cover the
following subject-matters:
(a) Logic.
(b) Metaphysics or the Theory of Knowledge.
(c) History of Philosophy.
(d) Ethics.
(e) A detailed examination on a primary historical system, to be selected by
the candidate, subject to approval.
2. In addition to a reading knowledge of French and German, the candidate may
be required to present evidence of a reading knowledge of Latin or Greek, or
of both, if in the judgment of the faculty in Philosophy such reading knowledge
is necessary for the preparation of the dissertation.
