BOSTON UNIVERSITY.
The following are the courses for the present year, at Boston
University, under the direction of Prof. B. P. Bowne and Dean
Huntington.
PSYCHOLOGY. Thought studied as a fact; its forms and laws investigated;
Current Theories expounded and criticised. Five hours.
LOGIC. Thought studied not as a fact, but as an instrument of knowledge. Investigation of the laws, forms, aims, and methods of mental activity. Five hours.
THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE. The study of thought as a process supplemented by the study of knowledge as its product. Knowledge defined, and the conditions, subjective and objective, of its validity investigated. The claims of scepticism, agnosticism, etc., considered at length. Three hours.
METAPHYSICS. Modifications of ontological and cosmological ideas in the light of rational criticism. Four hours.
PHILOSOPHY OF THEISM. The logical value and foundation of Theism considered. Four hours.
HISTORY OF ETHICAL THOUGHT. Christian Ethics. Text-book and lectures.
Five hours.
PHILOSOPHY OF ETHICS. Critical and constructive review of ethical theories. Psychological questions as to the nature and origin of moral faculty ruled out as irrelevant. Two hours.
HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY. From Descartes to the present time. Five hours.
The Philosophical Club, organised in 1886, has since that time maintained stated meetings for the furtherance of its members in philosophical studies.
Last year, under the auspices of the University, a special course of five lectures on Educational Psychology was given before large audiences by William T. Harris, LL. D. The topics treated were as follows:
1. Introspection contrasted with external Sense Perception.
2. Mental Pictures versus General Ideas.
3. The Logical Constitution of Sense Perception.
4. Physiological Psychology.
5. The Psychology of Mathematics, Æsthetics, and Ethics.
The courses are for single terms only.