 | University of Virginia record February, 1911 |  |
CORCORAN SCHOOL OF PHILOSOPHY.
Professor Lefevre.
Professor Payne.
Mr. Bale.
Mr. Slaven.
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 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. 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
Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 1-2. Rotunda, S. E. Professor Payne.
Text-Books.—To be announced.
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
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. 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. Hours to be arranged.
Rotunda, S. E. Professor Payne.
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.
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
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.
[Courses 6D and 7D will be given in alternate years.]
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