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.
5. The Psychology of Mathematics, Æsthetics, and Ethics.
The Undergraduate instruction in philosophy provides five hours a week of required work for one year:
1) IN DEDUCTIVE AND INDUCTIVE LOGIC; 2) IN PSYCHOLOGY; 3) IN ETHICS.
The courses are unified and thorough. A voluntary course in the History of Philosophy is given; and advanced courses will be offered this year in Modern Philosophy from Descartes to Kant, and in English Ethics from Hobbes to Stephen. The instructors are Professors Griffin and Emmot.