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Caption: Course Catalog - 1898-1899
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THE PHILOSOPHICAL GROUP PHILOSOPHY 131 The work in this department includes history of philosophy, metaphysics, ethics, and logic. The object of the courses is threefold: 1. To meet the wants of those who desire to specialize. 2. To give those who desire a more general knowledge of these subjects some familiarity with the sphere of philosophical speculation and with the philosophical method as applied to the principles and presuppositions of the various sciences. 3. To show the relation of philosophy to practical life and the value of its study as a means of general culture. PUBLIC LAW AND ADMINISTRATION See same in the College of Literature and Arts, p. 71. PSYCHOLOGY The object of this department is twofold. The aim is, first, to acquaint the student experimentally with psychic phenomena and to make him familiar with recent literature and standard authorities; and, second, to make contributions to the science itself. For the suitable preparation of the student for higher work, he is from the first required to deal with the subject as an experimenter, and thus given a practical knowlege of the phenomena which he is to handle. The laboratory is well equipped with materials and apparatus for the continuation of this work through a large number of classical experiments upon sensation, which the student is required to conduct himself and of which a careful record is kept. The higher mental functions are then studied in a similar way, and the experimenter held responsible for the purity of the experimental conditions and the method of procedure. As a preparation for this, scientific methods and the logic of experimentation are made objects of special study. The history of psychology is also taken up. A full line of periodical literature is made accessible by the University, and
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