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== '''The Course''' ==
== '''The Course''' ==
''Course Description'': Progress in philosophy has been hampered by the fact that philosophers have no shared, controlled vocabulary which they can use as a common starting point when defining their terms. Even mundane terms like ‘world’, ‘fact’, and ‘harm’ have such a variety of meanings that when competing theories use such terms their defenders can often be accused of talking past one another and of engaging in merely verbal disputes. This is in contrast to what is the case in the natural sciences, where consistent terminology – as codified for example in the Periodic Table and the International Standard System of Units – is recognized as indispensable. To put it bluntly, because of the use of standards, the natural sciences are collectively more successful than philosophers at resolving divergent points-of-view in their respective fields. Of course, the idea of developing a shared system of philosophical terms and definitions has been advanced in different forms already, for example by Aristotle in the ''Categories'', by Leibniz in ''De Arte Combinatoria'', by the early Wittgenstein, and by Carnap in his ''Logical Structure of the World''. Similar methods are nowadays being successfully applied, but this is occurring primarily outside philosophy, in areas such as biomedical informatics and industrial engineering.
''Course Description'':  


This course will address three goals:  
This course will address three goals:  


:'''First''', it will explore how to create and use a standard philosophical vocabulary. This will include exploiting modern developments in computational ontology, including the world’s first [https://www.iso.org/standard/74572.html international standard ontology].
''Course Structure'': This is a three credit hour graduate seminar.
:'''Second''', it will explore the ways in which building a restricted philosophical vocabulary can help to arbitrate philosophical disputes in areas such as time, mental content, modality, and obligation.
:'''Third''', it will provide an introduction to the methods of contemporary applied ontological that are being used both inside and outside philosophy.
:'''Fourth''', it will take students through all the steps involved in writing a paper and submitting it for publication and/or for presentation at a conference. Some of these papers will be authored by teams of up to 3 people (students can write alone, or belong to up to two teams).


''Course Structure'': This is a three credit hour graduate seminar, with a practical exercise forming part of each class.  Students will be trained in the basic tools and methods of ontology, and of how ontology can be used to help consistent formalization of philosophical and other theories.
The final sessions will be structured around powerpoint presentations by the students in the class. These presentations will be recorded.
In the initial weeks the practical exercise will take the form of one-to-one interactions with Dr Smith determining the topics and strategy for paper writing. In the middle weeks it will take the form of presentation of critiques of submitted drafts. In the final sessions it will be structured around preparation of powerpoint slides to support class presentations by students of their written work, presentations which will be recorded. .


''Target Audience'': The course is open to all interested students with an undergraduate degree and some knowledge of philosophy.
''Target Audience'': The course is open to all interested students with an undergraduate degree and some knowledge of philosophy.
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:J. F. Boler, [https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.1019.6057&rep=rep1&type=pdf Peirce on the Medievals: Realism, Power and Form]
:J. F. Boler, [https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.1019.6057&rep=rep1&type=pdf Peirce on the Medievals: Realism, Power and Form]


==August 30: Introduction: Philosophy on Rails==
==August 30: Introduction: The Tradition of American Philosophy==
 
Philosophy on Rails
:[https://buffalo.box.com/v/Philosophy-on-Rails Slides]
:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5I8kxqDSeo Video] (28 minutes)
 
Driverless Philosophy
:[https://buffalo.box.com/v/Driverless-Philosophy Slides]
:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29GE_p5GEtY Video] (73 minutes)
 
Example: The Emotion Ontology
:[https://buffalo.box.com/s/jli8soa96pwixvs4e4r2yyq6qumt8tar Slides]
:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYAT8vHZ8ik Video] (38 minutes)
 
Readings
:Amanda Bryant, "[https://philpapers.org/rec/BRYKTC Keep the chickens cooped: the epistemic inadequacy of free range metaphysics]", ''Synthese'' 197 (5): 1867-1887. 2020.
 
Precursors
 
:[https://books.google.com/books?id=858AHFXOt5EC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=snippet&q=smith&f=false Chisholm]
:[https://philpapers.org/archive/MILICA-6.pdf Ingarden]
:Armstrong, D. M. ''[https://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199590612.001.0001/acprof-9780199590612 Sketch for a Systematic Metaphysics]'', Oxford University Press, 2010.
:[https://github.com/BFO-ontology/BFO/raw/master/docs/bfo2-reference/BFO2-Reference.pdf BFO 2.0]


==September 6: Labor Day Observed==
==September 6: Labor Day Observed==


==September 13 Making the Content of Philosophy Accessible Systematically==
==September 13 American Philosophy and the Birth of Psychology==  
 
Pierre Grenon and Barry Smith, “[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/Ontology_of_Philosophy.pdf Foundations of an Ontology of Philosophy]”, Synthese, 2011, 182 (2), 185-204.
 
Describes an ontology of philosophy that is designed to help navigation through philosophical literature, including literature in the form of encyclopedia articles and textbooks and in both printed and digital forms. The ontology is designed also to serve integration and structuring of data pertaining to the philosophical literature, and in the long term also to support reasoning about the provenance and contents of such literature, by providing a representation of the philosophical domain that is orientated around what philosophical literature is about.
:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/philosophome/pdcphilontology-v1.owl OWL]
:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/philosophome/philonto/philontologyX013.gif gif]
:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HV3M0NvyPM Video] 40 minutes
 
Overview
:[http://philosophome.org/ The Philosophome]
 
 
Ontology of Philosophy
:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HV3M0NvyPM  Video] 40 minutes
:[https://buffalo.box.com/v/Philosophome-2015  Slides]
 
 
History of Philosophy
:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkYlY2jnRxc Video] 98 minutes
:[https://buffalo.box.com/v/Future-of-History Slides]
:N. Milkov, [https://philpapers.org/rec/MILALH A Logical–Contextual History of Philosophy], ''Southwest Philosophy Review'' 27 (1):21-29 (2011)
 
 
Examples of philosophical categorizations
:[https://philpapers.org/browse/all List of philpapers.org Categories]
:Dimitris Gakis (2016) "[https://doi.org/10.1080/05568641.2016.1188547 Philosophy as Paradigms: An Account of a Contextual Metaphilosophical Perspective]", ''Philosophical Papers'', 45:1-2, 209-239.
:[https://publiscologne.th-koeln.de/frontdoor/deliver/index/docId/1363/file/MAT_Seidlmayer.pdf Eva Seidlmayer, ''An ontology of digital objects in philosophy'']
 
:Advancing beyond the [https://philpapers.org/browse/all PhilPapers Table of Categories]
 
==September 20: An Introduction to Basic Formal Ontology==
 
Background: Robert Arp, Barry Smith and Andrew Spear, [https://mitpress.mit.edu/index.php?q=books/building-ontologies-basic-formal-ontology Building Ontologies with Basic Formal Ontology], Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, August 2015.
 
The ISO Standardization Process
 
ISO/IEC 21838
:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0masZPGLb0 Video] (20 minutes)
:[https://buffalo.box.com/v/Ontology-Summit-2020 Slides]
 
Basic Formal Ontology
:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0buEjR3t8A Video] (70 minutes)
:[https://buffalo.box.com/v/ICBO-2019-BFO-Tutorial Slides]
 
Basic Formal Ontology Applied to the Ontology of Language
:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3btP1InPZY&list=PLyngZgIl3WTjK-D7L1pdtpqzxIBhjBsb_&index=5 Video] (40 minutes)
:[https://buffalo.box.com/v/Immortality-and-Turing-Test Slides]
 
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Modes of Philosophical Derailment / Why Computer Science Needs Philosophy
:"... philosophical problems arise when language goes on holiday.” Wittgenstein, ''Philosophical Investigations'', §38
:Preliminary reading: "[http://hl7-watch.blogspot.com/2008/02/weight-of-baby.html The Weight of the Baby]"
:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yfhUt1LrIo Video] (51 minutes)
:[https://buffalo.box.com/s/v04c0oaywzts54m2qqnmswigwmhjc6l6 Slides]
 
==September 27: Philosophy of Language ==
 
Truth and the Ontology of Maps
:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jqqq7eBnZvE&list=PLyngZgIl3WTjK-D7L1pdtpqzxIBhjBsb_ Video] (20 minutes)
:https://buffalo.box.com/v/Truth-and-the-Ontology-of-Maps Slides]
 
Ontology of Language, Ontology of Terrorism, Ontology of Obligations
:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4lg1_-XpiE&list=PLyngZgIl3WTjK-D7L1pdtpqzxIBhjBsb_&index=4 Video] (88 minutes)
:[https://buffalo.box.com/v/Ontology-of-Language Slides]
 
Command and Control
:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8LTHhpF4Wk Video] (60 minutes)
:[https://buffalo.box.com/v/Command-and-Control Slides]
 
:Karl Bühler on logical vs. material derailment (''Entgleisung''). See Mulligan [https://www.unige.ch/lettres/philo/files/6614/2644/2862/mulligan_EssenceLanguageWBBB4.pdf here].
 
:Nosology of Continental Philosophy. See Mulligan [https://www.unige.ch/lettres/philo/files/8614/2644/2135/mulligan_PostContinentalPhilosophy1.pdf here].
 
==October 4: Philosophy of Science ==
 
The Replication Crisis in Pharmaceutical Science
:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QPpUhVOiPE Video] (70 minutes)
:[https://buffalo.box.com/s/gonk4yplf5niimpwi429ii89d4r1dzmn Slides]
 
Quantities as Fiat Universals
:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVVUH00cMNY&list=PLyngZgIl3WTj8kH_CMlBPVhaJT45rbPWw&index=17&t=0s Video] (78 minutes)
:[https://buffalo.box.com/v/Quantities-as-fiat-universals Slides]
 
Functions, Dispositions and Capabilities
:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJxfZ3cq5jE Video] (47 minutes)
:[https://buffalo.box.com/s/2zgx6emfas2t9ocik7n0c5ldkafymopc Slides]
 
:[https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0154556 A. Bandrowski, et al., "The Ontology for Biomedical Investigations", ''PLoS ONE'', 2016]
 
==October 11: Ontology of Documents ==
 
The Ontology of Document Acts (2005)
:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvwHy2-3Lss&feature=youtu.be&t=2143 Video] (50 minutes)
:[https://buffalo.box.com/v/Bozzi-Prize-Lecture Slides]


Documents and Massive Social Agency (2013)
==September 20: American Philosophy and the Birth of Sociology==
:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2vvVM7ff28 Video] (21 minutes)


From Speech Acts to Document Acts (2018)
==September 27: Peirce and Semiotics==
:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5chInYVVypI Video] (24 minutes)
:[https://buffalo.box.com/s/4v54yvkduv2r5qrdjo1racc355ywmj03 Slides]


Searle on the Ontology of Money
==October 4: ==
:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHo-Tn_v8xM Video] (39 minutes)
:[https://buffalo.box.com/s/ipuxsaapkdne29g2lhqsg70kahnssra1 Slides]


The Documentome
==October 11: ==
:[https://buffalo.app.box.com/s/swb8dupnopuox0o9ihl8j8gv0sxxp8ay Slides]


==October 18: Introduction to Protégé ==
==October 18: ==


Includes introduction to the ontology authoring and editing software at [https://protege.stanford.edu/]
==October 25: ==


==October 25: Metaphysics ==
==November 1: ==


:Mind, Language and Emotions: From Austrian Philosophy to Contemporary Realist Ontology
==November 8: ==
:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Vw3R5UCcDI Video] (67 minutes)
:[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/14/Rijeka/Ontology-of-Documents-May-2014-Rijeka.ppt Slides]


:What are capabilities?
==November 22: ==
:[https://buffalo.box.com/s/kvvq8qjb22rc80k8j7g4w7odi1hkhztz Slides] (60 minutes)
:[https://youtu.be/gHxDOFXu6CA Video]


:The Great Debate: John Sowa vs. Barry Smith
==November 29: ==
:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDJk9xTvdqY Video of BS contribution] (30 minutes)
:[http://bit.ly/2row7xT Slides of BS contribution]
:[http://bit.ly/2robKkp First 2 hours of whole debate]
:[http://bit.ly/2rnIdHE Final part of whole debate]
 
==November 1: Social Ontology, Norms and Values ==
 
Deontic Entities
 
:Deontology Ontology: Towards an Ontology of Deontic Entities
::[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/ppt/documents/Deontic-Entities-Geneva-July-2016.pdf Slides]
::[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIJJlnLLWGU Video] (36 minutes)
 
:Document Acts and the Ontology of Social Reality
::[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/14/Rijeka/Ontology-of-Documents-May-2014-Rijeka.ppt Slides]
::[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lg4z2up6HI Video] (103 minutes)
 
:The Ontology of the Organigram
::[http://ontology.buffalo.edu/16/Organigram.pdf Slides]
::[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bp3B2GkgaB8 Video] (58 minutes)
 
Background
:[https://buffalo.box.com/v/Deontic-Entities-in-BFO Slides]
:[https://search.proquest.com/openview/4ddf6056e26862d1573f674fe123b20b/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y Social Ontology and Social Normativity]
 
==November 8: Artificial Intelligence==
 
:"[https://arxiv.org/pdf/1901.02918.pdf Making Artificial Intelligence Meaningful Again]", ''Synthese'', [https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-019-02192-y online first]
 
:"[https://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.05833.pdf There is no General Artificial Intelligence"], https://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.05833.pdf
 
==November 15: Capabilities ==
 
:Capabilities
 
:[https://buffalo.box.com/v/capabilities-summary-Nov11 Slides]
 
:''Reading''
:[https://philarchive.org/archive/MERMC Eric Merrell, et al., "Mental Capabilities", ICBO, 2019]
 
==November 22: Philosophy of Information ==
 
:The Information Ontology
 
:[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBKsupBquok&list=PLyngZgIl3WTi9ez4OjbXDlYtLb-vSxLHc Video]
 
:Werner Ceusters and Barry Smith, "[https://philpapers.org/archive/CEUATF.pdf Aboutness: Towards Foundations for the Information Artifact Ontology]", ''Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Biomedical Ontology'' (ICBO). CEUR vol. 1515. pp. 1-5 (2015).
 
==November 29: Philosophy of Action ==


==December 6: Student Projects==
==December 6: Student Projects==


==December 7: Student Projects (Remote Session) ==
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=='''Reading'''==
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== '''Student Learning Outcomes''' ==
== '''Student Learning Outcomes''' ==
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! Assessment Method(s)
! Assessment Method(s)
|-
|-
| The student will acquire a knowledge of the principles and procedures of ontology, and an insight into the philosophical methods and theories relevant thereto. The student will also acquire a familiarity with research in formal philosophy and analytic metaphysics.  
| The student will acquire a knowledge of the history of American philosophy, of its influence on the development of psychology and the social sciences, and of its contemporary relevance.  
| Lectures and class discussions
| Lectures and class discussions
| Review of reading matter and associated online content and participation in class discussions
| Review of reading matter and associated online content and participation in class discussions
|-
|-
| The student will acquire experience in using the methods employed in applied ontology, especially as applied to philosophical theories and systems
| The student will acquire experience in using the methods employed in intellectual history, especially as applied to philosophical theories and systems


| Participation in practical experiments
| Participation in practical experiments
| Review of results  
| Review of results  
|-
|-
| The student will acquire experience in communicating the results of work using ontologies and in the potential of modern applied ontology as a tool to aid philosophical understanding
| The student will acquire experience in communicating the results of work in the history of philosophy in such a way as to demonstrate their contemporary relevance.
| Creation of youtube presentation and of associated documentation
| Creation of youtube presentation and of associated documentation
| Review of results
| Review of results
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=='''Important Dates'''==
=='''Important Dates'''==
{|
{|
|  Sep 1 || - about now start to discuss by email the content of your essay or essays with Dr Smith
|  Sep 7 || - about now start to discuss by email the content of your essay or essays with Dr Smith
|-
|-
|  Sep 14 || - submit proposed title and abstract
|  Sep 14 || - submit proposed title and abstract
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II: preparation of an essay, and associated powerpoint slides and recorded presentation.  
II: preparation of an essay, and associated powerpoint slides and recorded presentation.  


Content and structure of the essay should be discussed with Dr Smith. Where the essay takes the form of the documentation of a specific ontology developed by the student it should include:
Content and structure of the essay should be discussed with Dr Smith.  
:Statement of scope of the ontology
:Summary of existing ontologies in the relevant domain
:Explanation of how your ontology differs from (or incorporates) these ontologies
:Screenshots of parts of the ontology with some examples of important terms and definitions
:Summaries of potential applications of the ontology


'''Grading Policy:''' Grading follows standard [http://grad.buffalo.edu/Academics/Policies-Procedures/Grading-Procedures.html Graduate School policies]. Grades will be weighted according to the following breakdown:
'''Grading Policy:''' Grading follows standard [http://grad.buffalo.edu/Academics/Policies-Procedures/Grading-Procedures.html Graduate School policies]. Grades will be weighted according to the following breakdown:

Revision as of 21:07, 4 March 2021

American Philosophy and Its Contemporary Relevance Topics in the History of Philosophy (PHI 556)

Fall Semester 2020, Monday 1-3:40pm

Venue:

Registration: Class#: 24202

Instructor: Barry Smith

Prerequisites: Open to all persons with an undergraduate degree and some knowledge of philosophy.

Office hours: By appointment via email at phismith@buffalo.edu

The Course

Course Description:

This course will address three goals:

Course Structure: This is a three credit hour graduate seminar.

The final sessions will be structured around powerpoint presentations by the students in the class. These presentations will be recorded.

Target Audience: The course is open to all interested students with an undergraduate degree and some knowledge of philosophy.

Themes

Peirce's Ontology and the Metaphysics of Duns Scotus (Boler)
American Pragmatism and Its Reception in Germany: Scheler and Gehlem
The New Realism
E. B. Holt and J. J. Gibson
The Philosophy of Behaviorism
Wittgenstein and Behaviorism
Gibson's Theory of Perception
Peirce's Theory of Dicisigns
Weber, Mead, Parsons: The Origins of Social Science

Background Reading

Primary Sources

Dewey, John. (1884). The new psychology. Andover Review, 2, 278-289. [Possibly the first use of the phrase "new psychology."]
Dewey, John. (1894). The ego as cause. Philosophical Review, 3, 337-341.
Dewey, John. (1896) The reflex arc concept in psychology. Psychological Review, 3, 357-370. [The article that defined the modern concept of the reflex.
Holt, Edwin Bissell (1931) Animal Drive and the Leaning Process. An Essay Toward Radical Empiricism
James, William. (1890). The principles of psychology. [Perhaps the most important English-language psychology text in history.]
Mead, George H. (1913). The social self. Journal of Philosophy, Psychology, and Scientific Methods, 10, 374- 380. [Major article by the "social behaviorist."
Mead Project Inventory: see especially items by Dewey, E. B. Holt, and Mead himself
Peirce resources
Skinner, B. F. (1935). Two types of conditioned reflex and a pseudo type. Journal of General Psychology, 12, 66-77. [Major statement of operant behaviorism.]
Skinner, B. F. (1937). Two types of conditioned reflex: A reply to Konorski and Miller. Journal of General Psychology, 16, 272-279. [Reply to major critique of Skinner (1935).]
Watson, John B. (1913). Psychology as the behaviorist views it. Psychological Review, 20, 158-177. [The classic manifesto of behaviorism.]
Introduction to Watson (1913) by Christopher D. Green
Commentary on Watson (1913) by Robert H. Wozniak

Secondary Literature

Munich Schedule of Lectures on Peirce
Hierarchy from the perspective of Peirce
Matthieu Queloz, The Practical Origins of Ideas: Genealogy as Conceptual Reverse-Engineering (open access)
Peter Hare, Neglected American Philosophers in the History of Symbolic Interactionism [on Mead's precursors]
E. P. Charles, [researchgate.net/publication/232520180_Seeing_Minds_in_Behavior_Descriptive_Mentalism Seeing Minds in Behavior: Descriptive Mentalism], August 2011, Review of General Psychology 15(3):267-276. Charles' other papers on Holt are listed here.
J. F. Boler, Charles Peirce and Scholastic Realism: A Study of Peirce's Relation to John Duns Scotus
J. F. Boler, Peirce on the Medievals: Realism, Power and Form

August 30: Introduction: The Tradition of American Philosophy

September 6: Labor Day Observed

September 13 American Philosophy and the Birth of Psychology

September 20: American Philosophy and the Birth of Sociology

September 27: Peirce and Semiotics

October 4:

October 11:

October 18:

October 25:

November 1:

November 8:

November 22:

November 29:

December 6: Student Projects

Student Learning Outcomes

Program Outcomes/Competencies Instructional Method(s) Assessment Method(s)
The student will acquire a knowledge of the history of American philosophy, of its influence on the development of psychology and the social sciences, and of its contemporary relevance. Lectures and class discussions Review of reading matter and associated online content and participation in class discussions
The student will acquire experience in using the methods employed in intellectual history, especially as applied to philosophical theories and systems Participation in practical experiments Review of results
The student will acquire experience in communicating the results of work in the history of philosophy in such a way as to demonstrate their contemporary relevance. Creation of youtube presentation and of associated documentation Review of results

How to Write an Essay

Jordan Peterson's Essay Writing Guide

Important Dates

Sep 7 - about now start to discuss by email the content of your essay or essays with Dr Smith
Sep 14 - submit proposed title and abstract
Sep 28 - submit a table of contents and 300 word summary plus draft of associated ppt slides
Oct 15 - submit first draft of essay (~1000 words) and associated powerpoint (~10 slides)
Nov 15 - submit second draft of essay (~2000 words) and associated powerpoint (~10 slides)
Dec7 - class presentation
Dec 11 - submit final version of essay and powerpoint and upload final version of video to youtube

Grading

Grading will be based on two factors:

I: understanding and criticism of the material presented in classes 1-13

All students are required to take an active part in class (and where relevant on-line) discussions throughout the semester.

II: preparation of an essay, and associated powerpoint slides and recorded presentation.

Content and structure of the essay should be discussed with Dr Smith.

Grading Policy: Grading follows standard Graduate School policies. Grades will be weighted according to the following breakdown:

Weighting Assignment

20% - class discussions
15% - youtube video presentation
15% - powerpoint slides
50% - essay

Final Grades

Percentages refer to sum of assignment grades as listed above

Grade Quality Percentage

A 4.0 90.0% -100.00%
A- 3.67 87.0% - 89.9%
B+ 3.33 84.0% - 86.9%
B 3.00 80.0% - 83.9%
B- 2.67 77.0% - 79.9%
C+ 2.33 74.0% - 76.9%
C 2.00 71.0% - 73.9%
C- 1.67 68.0% - 70.9%
D+ 1.33 65.0% - 67.9%
D 1.00 62.0% - 64.9%
F 0 61.9% or below

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Assignment of an interim 'IU' is at the discretion of the instructor. A grade of 'IU' can be assigned only if successful completion of unfulfilled course requirements can result in a final grade better than the default 'U' grade. The student should have a passing average in the requirements already completed. The instructor shall provide the student specification, in writing, of the requirements to be fulfilled.

The university’s Graduate Incomplete Policy can be found here.

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