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CORCORAN SCHOOL OF PHILOSOPHY.

Professor Lefevre.

Professor Payne.

Mr. Hodge.

Mr. Williams.

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.

Primarily for Undergraduates.

Course 1B: Deductive and Inductive Logic; Theory of Knowledge.—M.
W. F., 1-2. Rotunda, S. E. During the first and second
terms, the class will be engaged with a study of the science of logic.
The lectures will deal in an introductory 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. Professor Lefevre.

Text-Books.—Creighton's Introductory Logic; other books to be announced.

Course 2B: Ethics.—M. W. F., 11-12. Rotunda, S. E. 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. Professor Lefevre.

Text-Books.—James Seth's Study of Ethical Principles; other books to be
announced.

Course 3B: General Psychology.—Hours to be arranged. Rotunda,
S. E. This course is intended to give a general survey of the main
problems, principles and method 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. Professor Payne.

Text-Books.—Thorndike's Elements of Psychology; Witmer's Analytical Psychology;
McDougal's Physiological Psychology. Parallel texts to be announced.

For Undergraduates and Graduates.

Course 4C: The History of Philosophy: Course 1B, or 2B, or 3B prerequisite.
M. W. F., 10-11. Rotunda, S. E. This course is intended primarily
for those who wish to know something of the history of thought
and the influence which 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. Professor Lefevre.

Course 5C: Social Psychology.—(Open to students who have
taken Courses 1B, 2B, and 3B, or their equivalents.) Hours to be arranged.
Rotunda, S. E. 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; the psychology of adolescence; and the evolution of social consciousness
will engage the attention in this course. Professor Payne.
Reading of texts, lectures, discussions, and reports.

Text-Books.—To be announced.

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.

For Graduates Only.

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 will be
required. Special attention will be given to Kant's relation 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.

[Course 6D and 7D will be given in alternate years.]