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UNIVERSITY OP ILLINOIS.

volves a discussion of the ego as a personality, and as evincing certain capacities, and hence to an enumeration and examination of such capacities, with a view of determining the conditions under which they fulfill their function. Under sensation, the primary mental fact, arises a consideration of the relation of mind and the nervous system. Lectures upon this important subject are given to supplement the usual text book discussions. Analysis of certain phases of thought leads to a consideration of the question whether knowledge does not contain some elements for the production of which the mind alone is responsible. (The intuitive and contrary views.) The primary view of the study is to examine the mind as an activity; but sight is not lost of the opportunity afforded to awaken self-reflection, and thus, together with the implications of the subject itself, to make it a propsedeutic to further researches in the philosophical branches. Fall term, 5 hours a week. 2. Introduction to Philosophy.—Nature and problems of philosophy. Relation of philosophy to the particular sciences. Presuppositions of experience; space, time, ideas of cause, effect, self-cause or self-activity; dependent and independent beings; dogmatism, scepticism, and criticism; theory of knowledge; philosophy of nature and of mind, ethics; aesthetics; tendencies and schools in philosophy. Winter term, 5 hours a week. 3. Logic—This study lies at the basis of the natural or logical organization of the studies of the curriculum. Any given topic in arithmetic, for example, is logically preceded and followed by others. Logic also gives a key to the deeper or philosophical discussion of the problems of mind, Some of its topics are as follows: Principles of logic; conditions of valid thinking; forms of arguments; fallacies and their classification; inductive and deductive reasoning; principles and methods of investigation; practical applications of logic in the construction of arguments, in the detection and answer of fallacies, and the formation of the habits of thinking and common judgment of life. Winter term, 5 hours a week. History of Philosophy.—The systems of ancient, and part of those of modern philosophy are studied using Schuyler's History of Philosophy as a basis of work. Supplementary lectures and discussions aim mainly to enforce the notion of philosophy as a