 | University of Virginia record February, 1910 |  |
CORCORAN SCHOOL OF PHILOSOPHY.
Professor Lefevre.
Professor Payne.
Mr. McClure.
Mr. M. T. Neff.
Required for Admission to the Work of the School: The General
Entrance Examination or its equivalent. Students are advised
not to undertake the work of this School before their second session
in the College.
For Undergraduates.
Course 1B: Deductive and Inductive Logic; Theory of Knowledge.
—During the first and second terms, the class will be engaged with a
manner with the general character of the thinking process, its laws of
development, and the methods by which thought actually proceeds to
solve the problems presented to it. Special attention will be directed
to the analysis of logical arguments and to the detection of fallacies
in reasoning. The third term will be devoted to a study and critical
exposition of different Theories of Knowledge. Monday, Wednesday,
Friday, 1-2. Rotunda, S. E. Professor Lefevre.
Text-Books.—Creighton's Introductory Logic; other books to be announced.
Course 2B: Ethics.—The aim of this course is (1) to trace in broad
outline the history of actual moral practices and ideals among mankind
in primitive, ancient, and modern times; and (2) to bring out the
distinctive features of moral action and to secure an insight into the
leading principles underlying it. Some of the more important systems
of ethics will be studied for the purpose of gaining an appreciation of
the general development and different types of theories of morality.
The entire course will be directed with a view to aiding the student
in reaching a constructive result. Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 11-12.
Rotunda, S. E. Professor Lefevre.
Text-Books.—To be announced.
Course 3B: General Psychology.—This course is intended to give
a general survey of the main problems, principles and methods of
Psychology either as a part of a liberal education or as preparation
for professional study in Education, Medicine, or Law. The following
topics will be treated: Structure and function of the Nervous System,
Sensation, Perception, Attention, Mental Imagery, Memory, Volition,
Reasoning, Association of Ideas, Movement and Action, Emotions,
etc. These topics will be treated from the physiological, experimental,
dynamic, and descriptive points of view. Reading of texts, lectures,
discussions, and reports. Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 1-2. Rotunda,
S. E. Professor Payne.
Text-Books.—To be announced.
Term Course: Second Term.—An Introductory Course in Experimental
Psychology. Topics treated are Sensation, Perception, Preperception,
Apperception, Color Discrimination, Color-Blindness, Association
of Ideas, Attention, etc. Hours by appointment. Professor
Payne.
For Graduates and Undergraduates.
Course 4C: The History of Philosophy: Course 1B, or 2B, or 3B
prerequisite. This course is intended primarily for those who wish to
philosophical ideas have exerted in the development of civilization.
The lectures will give a general account of philosophical speculation
from its beginnings among the Greeks to the present time. The endeavor
will be made to present the various philosophical systems in
their relation to the science and general civilization of the ages to
which they belong, and to estimate their social and political significance.
A large part of the year will be devoted to the theories and
problems of modern times. Reading of texts and commentaries, lectures,
discussions, and essays. Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 10-11.
Rotunda, S. E. Professor Lefevre.
Course 5C: Social Psychology.—(Open to students who have
taken Courses 1B, or 2B, or 3B, or their equivalents.) In this course,
general psychological principles will be applied to the study of the
social relations of the self, and the influences which determine feeling
and action in the individual as a member of the group, e. g. the
sentiments of religious, political, and social crowds. The attempt is
made to approach social facts from the mental side. The study of social
consciousness, as involved in the genesis and growth of social institutions;
the psychology of education; the psychology of religion;
and the evolution of social consciousness will engage the attention in
this course. Reading of texts, lectures, discussions, and reports.
Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 10-11. Rotunda, S. E. Professor Payne.
Text-Books.—To be announced.
Term Course: Second Term.—A short course in Social Psychology.
The psychology of the crowd, of the criminal jury, of the legislative
assembly, of the mob; the psychology of suggestion, etc.
Hours by appointment. Professor Payne.
Primarily for Graduates.
Course 6D.—(Open to students who have taken or are taking
Course 4C.) Empiricism and Rationalism. The empirical movement
as represented by Locke, Hume, and Mill, and the rationalistic movement
as represented especially by Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibniz,
will be studied with reference to their distinctive methods. Reading
of texts and commentaries, lectures, discussions, and essays. Professor
Lefevre.
Course 7D.—(Open to students who have taken or are taking
Course 4C.) The Critical Philosophy of Kant. The greater part of
the year will be devoted to the careful study of the Critique of Pure
Reason and the Critique of Practical Reason. Collateral reading of
standard commentaries and of selected recent literature on the subject
to previous philosophical systems, to the development of his own
philosophy, and to the interrelation of his three Critiques. Reading
of texts, lectures, discussions, and reports. Professor Lefevre.
Further advanced work in Philosophy will be arranged in accordance
with the needs of individual students.
[Courses 6D and 7D will be given in alternate years.]
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