PHILOS 3
Historical Introduction to Philosophy
Lecture, three hours; discussion, two hours. Historical introduction to Western philosophy based on classical texts dealing with major problems, related thematically and studied in chronological order: properties of rational argument, existence of God, problem of knowledge, nature of causality, relation between mind and body, possibility of justice, and others. P/NP or letter grading.
Course statistics
- Predicted GPA
- 3.60
- n = 834 · 8 terms · ± 0.019
- A range
- 70%
- of letter grades
- Taken P/NP
- 4%
- 92% of those passed
- D / F / W
- 1.2%
- incl. withdrawals
Sections in Fall 2026
Enrollment history
Final enrollment per term, averaged across that term's sections. Four years deep, summer excluded. Per-section live curves are on each section page.
- 9922W
- 14323W
- 14524W
- 14425W
- 9725S
Grade distribution
- A+ 36 · 4.1%
- A 323 · 36.7%
- A- 221 · 25.1%
- B+ 138 · 15.7%
- B 67 · 7.6%
- B- 14 · 1.6%
- C+ 10 · 1.1%
- C 9 · 1.0%
- C- 6 · 0.7%
- D 1 · 0.1%
- F 9 · 1.0%
- P 35 · 4.0%
- NP 3 · 0.3%
- S 1 · 0.1%
- U 1 · 0.1%
- I 7 · 0.8%
Grey bars are non-letter outcomes — P/NP, S/U, incompletes. They are excluded from the GPA entirely rather than scored, because counting a P as a 4.0 would be a fabrication.
By instructor
| Instructor | Predicted | Raw | n | Terms | A range |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LAWRENCE, GAVIN | 3.58 | 3.58 | 569 | 5 | 66% |
| DOVER, DANIELA J | 3.71 | 3.72 | 189 | 2 | 80% |
| RESCORLA, MICHAEL ARTHUR | 3.47 | 3.45 | 76 | 1 | 66% |
“Predicted” is shrunk toward the course average, which is itself shrunk toward the department — so an instructor with a handful of students sits near the course mean rather than topping the list.
By term
- 22W 3.82 n=96
- 221 3.45 n=76
- 23W 3.60 n=132
- 231 3.57 n=81
- 24W 3.56 n=141
- 241 3.71 n=75
- 25W 3.50 n=140
- 25S 3.61 n=93