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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 42

Mental Science. — Mental Science

Mental Science.

Mental Science.

1. Psychology: The structure and functions of the Nervous System in man and animals; Sensation and Movement; the Special Senses; Instinct; the laws of Association of Ideas; the nature and limits of Knowledge; Abstraction (including the Nominalist Controversy); the Theory of Vision; the Problem of the External World; the Theories of Perception.

2. Logic: (a) Deductive Logic: Terms; Concepts; Propositions; the Syllogism; Demonstration; Axioms; Necessary Truth, (b) Inductive Logic: Uniformity of Nature; Causation, Observation, and Experiment; the Inductive Canons; the Combination of Induction and Deduction; page 31 Verification; Hypotheses; Chance; Probable Evidence; Analogy; Definition; Classification; Fallacies.

3. Analysis and Classification of the Emotions; the Will (including the Freewill Controversy); Pleasure and Pain; outlines of Morbid Psychology; the Methods of Ethics; the Hedonist, lntuitionalist, and Utilitarian systems; the History of Philosophy.

In the Junior Class the foregoing subjects are taught as required for the simple Pass Degree. In the Senior Class as required for the senior scholarship examination of the New Zealand University.