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I. Philosophy

For Graduates and Undergraduates

(Philosophy B1, the History of Philosophy, and one other B course in this
School are prerequisite for all C courses in Philosophy.)

Philosophy C1: The Philosophy of Science: A study of the development
of scientific thought from Greek times to the present. Recent movements
in science will be treated with attention to their relation to certain
fundamental philosophical problems.

Assistant Professor Davenport.

Philosophy C7: Metaphysics: A systematic study of the speculative
science of metaphysics with special consideration of the bases and scopes of
the rational and empirical sciences and of the doctrinal positions of Aristotle,
Thomas Aquinas, Spinoza, and Bradley.

Professor Buchanan.

Philosophy C10: Aesthetics: A critique of art and art criticism.

Professor Buchanan.

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.