For Graduates.
Only one of the following courses will be given in any one session.
Philosophy D1.—(Open to students who have taken or are taking
Philosophy C1.) Empiricism and Rationalism. The empirical movement
as represented by Locke, Hume, and Mill, and the rationalistic movement as
represented especially by Descartes, Spinoza, and Leibnitz, will be studied
with reference to their distinctive methods. Reading of texts and commentaries,
lectures, discussions, and essays. Professor Lefevre, Adjunct
Professor Balz.
Philosophy D2.—(Open to students who have taken or are taking
Philosophy C1.) 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, Adjunct Professor Balz.
Further advanced work in Philosophy, including the critical study of
recent tendencies, will be arranged in accordance with the needs of individual
students.
For summer-school courses in Philosophy, on which college credit will
be allowed, see p. 256.
