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CORCORAN SCHOOL OF PHILOSOPHY.
Professor Lefevre.
Professor Payne.
Mr. Smith.
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 1: 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. Prof. Lefevre.
Text-Books.—Creighton's Introductory Logic; other books to be announced.
Course 2: 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
morality. The entire course will be directed with a view to aiding the
student in reaching a constructive result. Prof. Lefevre.
Text-Books.—James Seth's Study of Ethical Principles; other books to
be announced.
Course 3: General Psychology.—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 a preparation for professional
study. Prof. Payne.
Text-Books.—Thorndike's Elements of Psychology; Witmer's Analytical
Psychology; McDougall's Physiological Psychology; parallel texts to be announced.
For Undergraduates and Graduates.
Course 4: The History of Philosophy.—Course 1 or 2 or 3 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. Prof. Lefevre.
Course 5: Social Psychology.—(Open to students who have taken
Course 3 or its equivalent.) 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. 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. Prof. Payne. Reading of texts, lectures, discussions,
and reports.
Text-Books.—To be announced.
Primarily for Graduates.
Course 6: (Open to students who have taken or are taking Course 4.)
Empiricism and Rationalism. The empirical movement as represented by
Locke, Hume, and Mill, and the rationalistic movement as represented
to their distinctive methods. Reading of texts and commentaries, lectures,
discussions, and essays. Prof. Lefevre.
For Graduates Only.
Course 7:—(Open to students who have taken or are taking Course 4.)
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, lecture, discussions, and reports.
Prof. Lefevre.
Further advanced work in Philosophy will be arranged in accordance
with the needs of individual students.
[Courses 6 and 7 will be given in alternate years.]
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