Critical Presentation of a Proposal for a Unity of Knowledge (Integrated Studies) Program in University College, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. General Symposium Held During the Fourth Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Human Ideas on URAM. 1987. A Report

1988 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 122-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter F Morgan
Keyword(s):  
International Society ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Integrated Studies ◽  
University College ◽  
Unity Of Knowledge

scholarly journals Philosophy, Psychology, and History: George Sidney Brett and the Quest for a Social Science at the University of Toronto, 1910‑1940

2006 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 209-236
Author(s):  
Michael Gauvreau
Keyword(s):  
Human Mind ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Face ◽  
Point Of Intersection ◽  
Unity Of Knowledge ◽  
The University ◽  
Structure Of Knowledge ◽  
English Canadian

Abstract Between his appointment to the department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto in 1908 until his death in 1944, George Sidney Brett directed the bulk of his writing and teaching to the preservation of the relationship between the sciences and the humanities. In the face of the unpalatable extremes of scientific determinism and the revolutionary celebration of irrationalism, Brett resolutely asserted the unity of knowledge. This, he insisted, rested upon discovering a point of intersection between nature, mind, and society. Brett's writings emphasized the central role of psychology in preserving this unity. In his estimation, psychology possessed close links to the natural sciences of physiology and biology but, more importantly, the study of the human mind was also vitally related to the traditional humanities of philosophy, history, and literature. His belief — that humanistic, philosophical values underlay the structure of knowledge —points to a fundamental divergence between English-Canadian and American universities in the early twentieth century. Brett's standpoint was directed to resisting the fragmentation and specialization which characterized the development of the social sciences in American universities. The fact that Brett and some influential social scientists at the University of Toronto pursued, until the 1940s, a method of organizing their disciplines which preserved the unspecialized, philosophical, and historical emphases associated with the humanistic ideal, indicates the need to revise explanations of the rise of the social sciences in English-Canadian universities.

scholarly journals Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll, and the University College Lit: The University of Toronto Festivals, 1965-69

2006 ◽  
pp. 163-190
Author(s):  
Charles Levi
Keyword(s):  
Pop Art ◽  
Student Protest ◽  
Cultural Events ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
University College ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The University ◽  
Successes And Failures

In the late 1960s, the University College Literary and Athletic Society (the Lit) sponsored three festivals devoted to “Pop” art, psychedelia, and propaganda. As part of the 1967 festival, the Lit unsuccessfully attempted to have Timothy Leary visit to discuss the usefulness of LSD. This paper explores the festivals at University College, the controversy they created, and their successes and failures as cultural events, within the context of the history of student protest in Canada and the attempt to meld extra-curricular and counter-curricular activities in the 1960s as part of a wider search for “relevance” at the University of Toronto and in Canada as a whole.

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