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Appendix 3: Courses Taught at Harvard
1872 / 1873
Natural History 3: Comparative Anatomy & Physiology
1873 / 1874
[Absent from Harvard]
1874 / 1875
Natural History 3: Comparative Anatomy and Physiology of Vertebrates
1875 / 1876
Natural History 3: Comparative Anatomy and Physiology of Vertebrates
Grad Course 18: The Relations between Physiology and Psychology
1876 / 1877
Natural History 2: Physiological Psychology
Text: Herbert Spencer's Principles of Psychology
Natural History 3: Comparative Anatomy and Physiology of Vertebrates
Grad Course 17: The Relations between Physiology and Psychology
1877 / 1878
Natural History 3: Comparative Anatomy and Physiology of Vertebrates
Philosophy 4: Psychology
Grad Course 17: The Relations between Physiology and Psychology
1878 / 1879
Natural History 2: Physiological Psychology
Text: Herbert Spencer's Principles of Psychology
Philosophy 4: Psychology
Texts: Alexander Bain's The Senses and the Intellect and The Emotions and the Will
Philosophy 20: Physiological Psychology (graduate course)
1879 / 1880
Physiology and Hygiene (elective course open to all undergraduates)
Philosophy 3: The Philosophy of Evolution
Text: Herbert Spencer's Principles of Psychology
Philosophy 5: Comparative Philosophy
Philosophy 19: Psychological
1880 / 1881
Physiology and Hygiene (elective course open to all undergraduates)
Philosophy 3: The Philosophy of Evolution
Text: Herbert Spencer's Principles of Psychology
Philosophy 5: Psychology
Text: Alexander Bain's Mental Science
Philosophy 16: Physiological Psychology (graduate course)
1881 / 1882
Physiology and Hygiene (elective course open to all undergraduates)
Philosophy 2: Psychology – The Human Intellect
Philosophy 4: Contemporary Philosophy
Text: John Stuart Mill's A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive
Philosophy 6: Advanced Psychology (graduate course)
1882 / 1883
[Absent from Harvard]
1883 / 1884
Philosophy 2: Psychology – The Human Intellect
Philosophy 3: The Philosophy of Evolution
Text: Herbert Spencer's First Principles
Philosophy 5: English Philosophy
Philosophy 9: Psychology (advanced course)
1884 / 1885
Philosophy 2: Psychology – The Human Intellect
Philosophy 3: The Philosophy of Evolution
Text: Herbert Spencer's First Principles
Philosophy 5: English Philosophy – Locke, Berkeley, Hume
Philosophy 9: Psychology (advanced course)
1885 / 1886
Philosophy 2: Psychology and Logic
Philosophy 9: Special Advanced Study of Experimental Research in Psychology
1886 / 1887
Philosophy 2: Logic and Psychology
Texts: Alexander Bain's The Emotions and the Will; William Stanley Jevons's Elementary Lessons on Logic
Philosophy 5: English Empirical Philosophy
Text: John Stuart Mill's A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive
Philosophy [?]: Questions in Psychology (research course)
1887 / 1888
Philosophy 2: Logic and Psychology
Texts: Alexander Bain's The Emotions and the Will; William Stanley Jevons's Elementary Lessons on Logic
Philosophy 5: English Philosophy – Locke, Berkeley, Hume
Philosophy [?]: Questions in Psychology (laboratory course)
1888 / 1889
Philosophy 2: Logic and Psychology
Texts: George Trumull Ladd's Elements of Physiological Psychology; William Stanley Jevons's Elementary Lessons on Logic
Philosophy 4: Ethics – Recent Contributions to Theistic Ethics
Texts: James Martineau's Types of Ethical Theory and The Study of Religion
Philosophy 20a: Questions in Psychology (laboratory course)
1889 / 1890
Philosophy 2: Logic and Psychology
Texts: George Trumbull Ladd's Elements of Physiological Psychology; William Stanley Jevons's Elementary Lessons on Logic
Philosophy 20a: Questions in Psychology (laboratory course)
1890 / 1891
Philosophy 1: General Introduction to Philosophy – Metaphysics
Text: Rudolf Hermann Lotze's Outlines of Metaphysic
Philosophy 3: Psychology
Text: William James's The Principles of Psychology
Philosophy 10: Descartes, Spinoza, Leibnitz
Philosophy 20a: Psychological Seminar – Pleasure and Pain (laboratory course)
1891 / 1892
Philosophy 1: General Introduction to Philosophy – Psychology
Text: William James's
Psychology (Briefer Course)
Philosophy 2: Logic and Psychology
Texts: George Trumbull Ladd's Elements of Physiological Psychology; William Stanley Jevons's Elementary Lessons on Logic
Philosophy 20a: Psychological Seminar (laboratory course)
Topics in Psychology of Interest to Teachers (12 lectures, intended for teachers)
1892 / 1893
[Absent from Harvard]
1893 / 1894
Philosophy 2: Psychology
Text: William James's The Principles of Psychology
Philosophy 3: Cosmology
A study of the fundamental conceptions of natural science with special reference to theories of evolution and materialism
Texts: Herbert Spencer's First Principles; Rudolf Hermann Lotze's Grundzüge der Naturphilosophie
Philosophy 20b: Psychological Seminar – Questions in Mental Pathology
1894 / 1895
Philosophy 1: General Introduction to Philosophy – Psychology
Text: William James's Psychology (Briefer Course)
Philosophy 3: Cosmology
A study of the fundamental conceptions of natural science with special reference to theories of evolution and materialism
Texts: Herbert Spencer's First Principles; Rudolf Hermann Lotze's Grundzüge der Naturphilosophie
Philosophy 20b: Psychological Seminar – Questions in Mental Pathology
1895 / 1896
Philosophy 1: General Introduction to Philosophy – Psychology
Text: William James's Psychology (Briefer Course)
Philosophy 2a: Psychology
Texts: Wilhelm Wundt's Lectures on Human and Animal Psychology; Harald Høffding's Outline of Psychology
Philosophy 2b: Physiological Psychology
Philosophy 20b: Psychological Seminar – The Feelings
Discussion of certain theoretic problems, including consciousness, knowledge, the self, and the relation of mind and body
1896 / 1897
Philosophy 1: General Introduction to Philosophy – Psychology
Text: William James's Psychology (Briefer Course)
Philosophy 3: Philosophy of Nature
A study of the fundamental conceptions of natural science with special reference to theories of evolution and materialism
Texts: Herbert Spencer's First Principles; Friedrich Paulsen's Introduction to Philosophy
Philosophy 15: Abnormal Psychology
A study of the various types of insanity, and of recent investigations into exceptional mental phenomen
Text: Henry Maudsley's The Pathology of the Mind
Philosophy 20c: Metaphysical Seminar – Philosophy of Kant
1897 / 1898
[Course information undetermined]
1898 / 1899
Philosophy 9: Metaphysics
The fundamental problems of theoretical philosophy – the unity or plurality of the world-ground, and its knowability or unknowability; realism and idealism; hedonism, teleology, and theism
Texts: Borden Parker Bowne's Philosophy of Theism; Francis Herbert Bradley's Appearance and Reality; Josiah Royce's The Conception of God
Philosophy 20b: Abnormal Psychology
1899 / 1900
[Absent from Harvard]
1900 / 1901
[Absent from Harvard]
1901 / 1902
[Absent from Harvard]
1902 / 1903
Philosophy 9: Philosophy of Nature
Special reference to man's place in nature – the fundamental mental conceptions of science, the relation of mind and body, and evolution
Texts: Karl Pearson's The Grammar of Science; James Ward's Naturalism and Agnosticism
1903 / 1904
Philosophy 20c: Metaphysical Seminar – A Pluralistic Description of the World (graduate course)
1904 / 1905
Philosophy 9: Metaphysics
The fundamental problems of theoretical philosophy – the nature of reality; monism and pluralism; hedonism, teleology and theism
1905 / 1906
Philosophy 1: General Introduction to Philosophy – Logic (taught first 4 weeks)
Text: Friedrich Paulsen's Introduction to Philosophy
Philosophy 9: Metaphysics
The fundamental problems of theoretical philosophy – the nature of reality; monism and pluralism; hedonism, teleology and theism
1906 / 1907
Philosophy 10: General Problems of Philosophy
1907
[Resignation from Harvard]
Source: Harvard University Archives, holdings classifcation number HUG 300. Adapted from a list originally compiled by Frank Pajares and Ellen Usher.
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