58 courses in the 1964–65 Undergraduate Calendar, read from the scanned original. The text comes from OCR, so check the scanned page before relying on a detail.
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Faculty listed in 1964–65
R. J. C. Burgener, M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto) Associate Professor and Chairman of Department
C. A. Hergott, C.R., M.A. (St. Louis), $.T.D. (Gregorian) - - Professor J Z. Adamczewski, B.A. (London), A.M. (Columbia), Ph.D. (Harvard)
Associate Professor
P. B. Sheridan, C.R., M.A. (Western), J.C.D. (Gregorian), Ph.D. (Fribourg) Associate Professor J
L. Armour, B.A. (British Columbia), Ph.D. (London) - Assistant Professor
J. R. Horne, M.A. (Western), B.Th. (Huron), Ph.D. (Columbia) Assistant Professor R
B. J. Murphy, C.R., B.A. (Western), M.A., Ph.D. (Ottawa) Assistant Professor J
J. F. Narveson, B.A. (Chicago), M.A., Ph.D. (Harvard) - Assistant Professor
P. Seligman, B.A., Ph.D. (London) - - - - Assistant Professor C. C. Brodeur, B.A. (Fordham), M.A. (Toronto) - - - - Lecturer Philosophy
The normal first course in Philosophy both for those intending to proceed further and for those desiring a single terminal course. The student will attempt to come to grips with some of the fundamental problems of human life, for example, those associated with the nature of matter, mind, reality, knowledge, religion, virtue and beauty. Philosophies both ancient and modern will be discussed and some time devoted to the consideration of the structure of inference (logic) as it occurs in science and other instances of reasoning, argument, proof, and persuasion.
3 hours.
1003. Introduction to Philosophy. A study of St. Thomas and his writings; fundamental Thomistic principles.
Nature and division of Philosophy; nature of logic, the term; the proposition; argumentation; induction and deduction; scientific demonstration. Truth; certitude; evidence; sense and intellectual knowledge; criterion of truth; contemporary theories.
3 hours.
2003. Cosmology and Philosophy of Science. Corporeal bodies and change; quantitative and qualitative characteristics; motion; time, space; hylomorphic theory. Nature of science; abstraction; necessity; foundation and object of science; scientific method; hypothesis and theory.
The philosophical approach to the fundamental questions about human values as they affect contemporary. problems. Important ethical and political positions of past and present will be examined. Emphasis will be placed on the relevance of ethics to the study of human behaviour within the framework of the social sciences. Recommended as the normal Philosophy course following on from Philosophy 100 for those students who do not intend to pursue the 260-261-360 sequence. The first half of this course (designated as 201a) may be taken by students from other faculties who require a one-semester course.
Rigorous and systematic treatment of truth-functional and quantificational theory, with some treatment also devoted to semantical and metalinguistic theory, proof theory, the foundations of mathematics, inductive logic, and non-extensional systems.
Philosophy 220 gives the student ample preparation for further work in mathematical logic, philosophical analysis, and the philosophy of science. It should also prove very useful for those doing work in linguistics.
The various alternative ways of dealing theoretically with questions about human moral value. Views of some of the following positions will be discussed: the Epicureans, the Stoics, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Christianity, Spinoza, the Utilitarians, Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Shaftesbury. Emphasis will be placed on relating these various views to the ethical pronouncements of the modern social sciences particularly cultural anthropology, behaviourism and Freud.
PHIL 261BHistory of Philosophy HI. A preliminary examination of the philosophy of Aristotle, particularly with reference to his metaphysics, physics and psychology, a preliminary examination of Mediaeval philosophy. Prerequisite: Philosophy 100
PHIL 260–261Note: This series of four half-courses will be offered each year. In
261 the order of the a and b half course is reversible. These courses are intended primarily for second year honours students, and for others willing and able to go rather thoroughly into the matters concerned.
The notion and analogy of being; the primary principles of being; the properties, division, and causes of being. Demonstration of existence of God; His nature and attributes; the divine intelligence and will; creation and providence.
3 hours.
301a, Modern Ethics I. Discussion of the moral philosophies of some recent philosophers. Samples of the work of British, American, and Continental philosophers will be analysed. Some attempt will be made to acquaint students with the work of philosophers of a number of schools.
Contemporary ethical problems. Exploration of the epistemological and logical foundations of current ethical issues and discussion of specific problems such as the analysis of moral concepts, the significance and nature of the problem of free will, the data of ethics, the nature of moral rules and the bearing upon ethics of such problems as immortality and the existence of God.
Philosophical analysis of central concepts in political theory. The effect of the central issues of moral philosophy, epistemology, and metaphysics on the formation of political theories. Examples will be drawn from the work of philosophers of a number of periods and schools — for example, Plato, Aristotle, St. Thomas Aquinas, Hobbes, Locke, Hegel, Marx and contemporary thinkers.
The philosophical consideration of art and beauty. A study of the basic problems with examples from historical and contemporary writers. Various theories of art criticism and literary criticism. Art related to society, morality, the sciences and religion. . Prerequisite: Philosophy 100.
A survey of non-western philosophy, particularly that of China, Japan, and India. The views of such philosophers as Confucius, Lao-Tze and Mencius will be discussed and the philosophical content of the early Hindu and Buddhist writings examined. Zen Buddhism and other modern views.
Consideration of the various possible views about the ultimate nature and significance of history and historical knowledge. The views of such as the following are examined: St. Augustine, Vico, Hegel, Marx, Spengler, Croce, Collingwood and Toynbee.
A philosophical approach to the basic ideas of great world religions. The phenomenology of religious experience and mysticism and the nature of religious symbolism and language will be discussed. Enquiry will also be made into such characteristically religious notions as faith and revelation, sin and redemption.
The instructor presents a theme of special interest to himself well within the grasp of general students who have taken an introductory philosophy course.
Prerequisite: Philosophy 100 or 15.
3 hours, half course.
330 Note: This series of four half-courses will normally be arranged so that two are given in any year constituting a whole course for the purpose of assessing credits. Engineering students may take a half course by itself where appropriate. Although one may enter these courses with Philosophy 100, it is desirable in most cases to have had one other Philosophy course also.
Specific problems regarding the philosophical underpinnings of various sciences and disciplines, including Physics, Biology, Mathematics, Psychology, History, Political Science and Economics, English and other literatures. Conducted by one philosophy instructor in conjunction with one other “visiting” instructor from the discipline concerned. Normal period for each discipline will be two weeks.
PHIL 360History of Philosophy IV-V. The Philosophy of Kant, his predecessors and successors
Considerations of Rationalism and Empiricism not dealt with in Philosophy 260b, particularly those which are specially relevant to the Critical Philosophy. The Critique of Pure Reason. A survey of post-Kantian idealism with emphasis on Hegel.
Thorough introduction to the philosophical issues bearing specifically upon, or arising out of, science. Logical analysis of scientific methods and concepts, study of the role of mathematics in empirical science, consideration of the relations among the various sciences and between the “theoretical” and “applied” branches of particular sciences, and comparison of science as an activity with art, religion, philosophy and everyday life. Some attention will also be devoted to special problems arising from the social sciences, especially psychology.
Prerequisite: Philosophy 220. Very moderate acquaintance with the sciences is assumed. Well-qualified students in the sciences, however, may be admitted without Philosophy 220. May be taken concurrently with 220.
The basic problems in the theory of knowledge, the nature of logieal inference, concepts, causal and rational necessity, determinism, freedom, meaning, language, the fundamental nature of communication. Prerequisite: Philosophy 360.
Detailed consideration of selected portions of the works of Plato and Aristotle, Suggested Works: Plato’s Timaeus, Theaetetus and Philebus. Aristotle’s Metaphysics.
Detailed consideration of selected portions of the works of St. Thomas and other Mediaeval philosophers such as Occam, St. Anselm, Albertus Magnus, St. Bernard, Duns Scotus.
A study of selected readings. Prerequisite: Philosophy 360. With the consent of the instructor, this course is also open to general students with two full courses in Philosophy.
Theories of reality including study of such fundamental concepts as being, form, substance, causality, process, universal and particular. Prerequisite: Philosophy 360.
Introduction to the rigorous and detailed philosophizing of the contemporary era. Readings from such figures as Frege, Russell, Moore, Lewis, Ayer, Carnap, Quine, Ryle, Austin, and especially Ludwig Wittgenstein.
Prerequisite: Two courses in Philosophy. Philosophy 220 is specially recommended.
PHIL 610-19Seminar in the Study of a Recent Philosopher
Names at present contemplated from which a choice may be made should the demand be sufficient: Bradley, Heidegger, McTaggart, Price, Russell, Ryle, Sartre, Wittgenstein.
The key ideas of Greek philosophy from Anaximander to the Atomists, their logical implications as well as their influence on later ages will be discussed. The foundation of philosophical thinking will be elucidated against the background of the mythological attitude that preceded it. Attention will also be given to early cosmological and anthropological speculation.
Note: Depending on what is appropriate in a given case, 600 courses may be for a full academic year’s duration or for one semester only. In the latter case they will be counted as “half-courses” in the interpretation of general calendar requirements. Such half-courses will for purposes of records be designated with the suffix “a”, e.g. 620a.
Department of Physical and Health Education
D. J. Pugliese, B.A., B.P.E. (McMaster), Ed.M. (Buffalo) Assistant Professor and Chairman of Department P. J. Galasso, B.A., B.P.H.E. (Queen’s), M.A. (Michigan) - Assistant Professor
C. A. W. Totzke, B.A. (Western) - - - - - Special Lecturer D. Hayes, B.Sc., B.P.E. (Springfield) - - - - - - Lecturer (Miss) R. Hodgkinson, B.P.H.E. (Toronto) - - - - - Lecturer D. W. Geiger, B.Sc., M.D. (McGill) - - - - - Special Lecturer G. E. Wilson, M.D. (Toronto), Dip.P.H. (Toronto) - - Special Lecturer
A study of the history of the dance from its origin in prehistoric times to the present. An examination of the materials, growth and function of the dance in society.
A study of the history of coaching and its underlying principles applied to physical education today. An examination of different methods and problems connected with coaching specific teams and individual sports.
PHIL 420Administration of Physical and Health Education Programmes
The function of administration with respect to planning, staff, public relations, facilities, equipment, legal responsibilities, intramural and interscholastic programmes. The drafting of schedules and the organization and conduct of tournaments and meets. The study of special problems of health and physical education pertinent to the administrator.
A course designed to acquaint the student with the medical resources of the community and the function of the school medical services. Problems of mental health in school and community, and medical statistics as they relate to the illnesses of different age groups. Certain topics relating specifically to health education, such as alcoholism, the use of tobacco or drugs, are made the subjects of seminars. Nutrition and its relation to health and modern concepts of preventive medicine are reviewed in a general manner. Visits to schools and clinics which are relevant to the course will be arranged.
A study of the system of the human body as to structure with particular emphasis on the skeleton, joints and muscles. The functions of these and other systems will be studied in relationship to the needs of physical education.
The analysis of complex movements, specialized skills and motor coordination underlying human motor performance. 3 lectures 2 hours laboratory second term.
Prevention and correction of accidents in athletic activities. The use of proper personnel and field equipment; support methods, conditioning exercises, the medical examination and therapeutic aids. Laboratory work includes the clinical use of physiotherapy equipment, massage and advanced training methods used in the care of personnel injured in the various skill courses, recreational, intramural and varsity activities..