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Jan 10 - May 8:
Psychology of Human Behavior / David W. Martin, PhD
| Jan 10 | 1. | Modern Psychology in Historical Context | 2. | Experimentation as a Research Method |
| Jan 17 | 3. | Nonexperimental Research Methods | 4. | Evolutionary Theory and Modern Psychology |
| Jan 24 | 5. | Freud's Thinking | 6. | Details of Psychoanalytic Theory |
| Jan 31 | 7. | Classification of Mental Illnesses | 8. | Anxiety and Mood Disorders |
| Feb 7 | 9. | Disorders of Brain, Body, Self, Drugs, Sex | 10. | Schizophrenic Disorders |
| Feb 14 | 11. | Childhood, Retardation, Personality Disorders | 12. | Physical Therapies -- Drugs |
| Feb 21 | 13. | Physical Therapies -- ECT, Surgery, Genes | 14. | Talking Therapies -- Psychoanalysis |
| Feb 28 | 15. | Therapies -- Humanistic, Cognitive, Group | 16. | Behavior Therapies -- Classical Conditioning |
| Mar 6 | 17. | Behavior Therapies -- Operant Conditioning | 18. | Models of Motivation |
| Mar 13 | 19. | Emotion -- What Do We Measure? | 20. | Emotion -- Theories |
| Mar 20 | 21. | Psychoactive Drugs -- Processes, Stimulants | 22. | Drugs -- Depressants, Narcotics, Hallucinogens |
| Mar 27 | 23. | Social Psychology -- Influence and Reciprocity | 24. | Social Psychology -- Additional Mechanisms |
| Apr 3 | 25. | Simple Learning -- Classical Conditioning | 26. | Simple Learning -- Operant Conditioning |
| Apr 10 | 27. | Complex Learning | 28. | Memory -- Characteristics |
| Apr 17 | 29. | Memory -- Memory Aids and Forgetting Theories | 30. | Perception -- Forming Internal Models |
| Apr 24 | 31. | Perception -- Finding and Organizing Cues | 32. | Evolutionary Psychology -- Basic Concepts |
| May 1 | 33. | Evolutionary Psychology -- Altruism and Mating | 34. | Evolutionary Psychology -- War, Family, Food |
| May 8 | 35. | Engineering Psychology | 36. | Recap, Omissions, and Into the Future |
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May 15 - Nov 13:
The Great Ideas of Philosophy / Daniel N. Robinson, PhD
| May 15 | 1. From the Upanishads to Homer | & | 2. What Is It and Did the Greeks Invent It? |
| May 22 | 3. Pythagoras and the Divinity of Number | & | 4. What Is There? The Pre-Socratics and the Ultimate Stuff of the Universe |
| May 29 | 5. Is Medea Guilty as Charged? The Greek Tragedians on Man's Fate | & | 6. Know Thyself -- Herodotus and the Lamp of History |
| Jun 5 | (no meeting — AHA Conference) | ||
| Jun 12 | 7. Socrates on the Examined Life | & | 8. Plato's Search for Truth |
| Jun 19 | 9. Can Virtue Be Taught? | & | 10. Plato's Republic -- Man Writ Large |
| Jun 26 | 11. Mind and Body -- Hippocrates and the Science of Life | & | 12. Aristotle on the Knowable |
| Jul 3 | (no meeting — Stanford fireworks potluck) | ||
| Jul 10 | 13. Aristotle on Friendship | & | 14. Aristotle on the Perfect Life |
| Jul 17 | 15. Rome, the Stoics, and the Rule of Law | & | 16. The Stoic Bridge to Christianity |
| Jul 24 | 17. Roman Law -- Making a City of the Once-Wide World | & | 18. The Light Within -- Augustine's Idea of Human Nature |
| Jul 31 | 19. Islam | & | 20. Secular Knowledge -- The Idea of the University |
| Aug 7 | 21. Facts and Values -- The Reappearance of Experimental Science | & | 22. Scholasticism and the Theory of Natural Law |
| Aug 14 | 23. Erasmus and Luther -- Humanism and Fundamentalism | & | 24. Let Us Burn the Witches to Save Them ... |
| Aug 21 | 25. Francis Bacon's "Great Instauration" -- The Authority of Experience | & | 26. Descartes and the Skeptical Mind -- The Authority of Reason |
| Aug 28 | 27. Newton -- The Saint of Science | & | 28. The Social Machine -- Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan and the Science of Statecraft |
| Sep 4 | 29. A Newtonian Science of the Mind -- John Locke on Human Understanding | & | 30. No matter? Never mind! Berkeley and the Challenge of Materialism |
| Sep 11 | 31. Skepticism and the Pursuit of Happiness -- David Hume | & | 32. Common Sense and Divine Providence -- Thomas Reid and the Scottish School |
| Sep 18 | 33. The Play of Mind and the Salons of Dissent -- France and the Philosophes | & | 34. The Federalist Papers and the Great Experiment |
| Sep 25 | 35. What Is Enlightenment? Kant on Freedom and the Forms of Knowledge | & | 36. Moral Science and the Natural World -- Kant and the Moral Imperative |
| Oct 2 | 37. The Phrenologists -- Early Sciences of Mind and Brain | & | 38. The Idea of Freedom |
| Oct 9 | 39. Human History as the Unfolding of the Ideal -- The Hegelians | & | 40. The World as the Gift of Genius -- The Aesthetic Movement |
| Oct 16 | 41. Dark Corners of the Soul -- Nietzsche at the Twilight | & | 42. The Liberal Tradition -- John Stuart Mill on Liberty |
| Oct 23 | 43. Survival of the Fittest -- Darwin and the (Blind) Purposes of Nature | & | 44. Marxism -- Dead but Not Forgotten |
| Oct 30 | 45. The Freudian World | & | 46. Yankee Thought in a World of Mystery -- The Radical William James |
| Nov 6 | 47. William James's Pragmatism | & | 48. Helping the Fly Out of the Bottle -- Wittgenstein and the Discursive Turn |
| Nov 13 | 49. Breaking the Code -- Alan Turing in the Forest of Wisdom | & | 50. Four Theories of the Good Life -- From Saints to Heroes to Brains in Vats |
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