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I. Philosophy

For Undergraduates

First-year students, entering the college from high or preparatory schools,
are not admitted to the courses in Philosophy or Psychology.

Philosophy B1: History of Philosophy: The history of philosophy from
the Greek philosophers to the beginning of the nineteenth century. (B.A. or B.S.
credit, 3 session-hours.)

Professor Balz.

Philosophy B2: Ethics: The historical development of the chief types
of ethical theory. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.)

Assistant Professor Dent.

Philosophy B3: History of Morals: A descriptive and historical study
of moral ideas and practices. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.)

Professor Balz.

Philosophy B4: Political Philosophy: An historical study of political
and social thought from Plato to the present. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.)

Assistant Professor Dent.

Philosophy B5: Logic: First term: Scientific Methodology. Second
and third terms: Logic as a deductive science, including a study of some recent
developments in the logic of classes, relations, and systems, and their application
to the problems of science and philosophy. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.)

Assistant Professor Davenport.

Philosophy B8: Plato: Reading, interpretation, and discussion of the
works of Plato. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.)

Professor Buchanan.

Philosophy B9: Spinoza: Reading, interpretation, and discussion of
the works of Spinoza. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.)

Professor Buchanan.

(Philosophy B8 and B9 will be given in alternate years: B8 in 1931-32, B9
in 1932-33.)

Philosophy B10: Aristotle: Reading, interpretation, and discussion of
the works of Aristotle. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.)

Assistant Professor Davenport.

Philosophy B11: Kant: Reading, interpretation, and discussion of the
Critique of Pure Reason, the Critique of Practical Reason, and the Critique of
Judgment. (B.A. or B.S. credit, 3 session-hours.)

Assistant Professor Davenport.

(Philosophy B10 and B11 will be given in alternate years. B11 in 1931-32,
and B10 in 1932-33.)

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: History of Thought in the Nineteenth Century: A
study of the century which represents for us the transformation of old traditions
to modern modes of thought. Reading, comparison, and discussion of works
that mark the stages in the process.

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 C6: Philosophy and Scientific Inquiry: The significance
of certain problems and theories of science with reference to their bearing upon
metaphysical concepts of nature. The doctrines of Bergson, Whitehead, Driesch,
Haldane, Broad and others are discussed.

Assistant Professor Davenport.

Philosophy C9: Modern Logical Theory.

Assistant Professor Davenport.

Philosophy C11: (Biblical Literature C2): 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 D1: Kant.

Professor Balz.

Philosophy D2: The Philosophy of John Dewey.

Professor Balz.

(Philosophy D1 and D2 will be given in alternate years. D1 will be given
in 1931-32.)

Philosophy D3: Metaphysics: Aristotle.

Professor Buchanan.

Philosophy D4: Metaphysics: Hegel and Bradley.

Professor Buchanan.

(Philosophy D3 and D4 will be given in alternate years. D3 will be given
in 1931-32.)

(Admission to D courses upon approval of the professors in charge.)

Note: Every student who desires to become a candidate for the degree
of Doctor of Philosophy in Philosophy must pass an examination
on the History of Philosophy. This is a prescribed condition of qualification
for candidacy. The examination may be oral, written, or both, in the discretion
of the professors concerned.