PHILOS 129
Philosophy of Psychology
Grades
3.24
Average grade awarded in PHILOS 129. Not a student rating: this is what the grades were.
In the A range
50%
of the 254 letter grades
D, F or W
5.5%
of every letter grade awarded, plus withdrawals
Taken pass/no pass
3%
6 of 9 students passed
The registrar's own records: 254 grades over 6 terms, Fall 2021 to Fall 2025. Every instructor is pooled here.
What is inside that record
3 of those terms are summer sessions, and summer sessions are counted here.
The table below splits them, and term averages across those 6 terms ran 3.08 to 3.88.
Historical grades for all professors, across recorded terms. The course summary above includes all professors.
- A+ 4 · 1.6%
- A 78 · 30.7%
- A- 46 · 18.1%
- B+ 42 · 16.5%
- B 29 · 11.4%
- B- 18 · 7.1%
- C+ 10 · 3.9%
- C 9 · 3.5%
- C- 4 · 1.6%
- D+ 1 · 0.4%
- D 1 · 0.4%
- F 12 · 4.7%
- P 6 of 268
- NP 3 of 268
- S 1 of 268
- U 1 of 268
- I 3 of 268
Percentages are of the 254 letter grades. Grey bars are non-letter outcomes: passes (P), no-passes (NP), satisfactory (S), unsatisfactory (U), and incompletes (I).
How the non-letter outcomes are counted
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 GPA | Raw | n | Terms | A range | Workload | Spring 2027 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BURGE, C TYLER reviews ↗ | 3.14 | 3.13 | 172 | 3 | 43% | - | not teaching it |
| LAWRENCE, GAVIN reviews ↗ | 3.39 | 3.44 | 43 | 1 | 70% | - | not teaching it |
| RESCORLA, MICHAEL ARTHUR reviews ↗ | 3.18 | 3.12 | 20 | 1 | 35% | - | not teaching it |
| ARMSTRONG, JOSHUA DAVID reviews ↗ | 3.58 | 3.88 | 19 · | 1 | 89% | - | not teaching it |
Why Predicted is not the Raw average
“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.
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Workload and assignments
Work types reported in BruinWalk reviews of this course, across recorded instructors and terms. They may differ from this term's syllabus.
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What comes first
dibs has not read a class page for PHILOS 129 in any term it holds, so it cannot say what comes before it.
Counted in courses rather than quarters: dibs does not know which of them a department lets you take together.
In Springs
Ran in 2 of the last 4 Springs, so it turns up in Spring sometimes rather than dependably.
From the terms dibs holds, which start in Fall 2021 and exclude summer. A department can run a course in a quarter it never has before.
From the registrar's catalog
Lecture, three to four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Preparation: one 4-unit psychology course, one philosophy course. Selected philosophical issues arising from psychological theories. Nature of perception and issues about perceptual psychology and development of important types of representation (e.g., of body, cause, agency) in early childhood. Relevance of computer simulation to accounts of thinking and meaning; relations between semantical theory and learning theory; psychological aspects of theory of syntax. May be repeated for credit with consent of instructor. P/NP or letter grading.
Sections in Spring 2027
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