It's a very interesting suggestion. I haven't really taught history of philosophy --- a big exception being a graduate course on the history of work on the problem of induction from Hume to Quine, which I taught in the spring. Basically all of the courses I've taught are current topics, arguments, and controversies that are live today. Course titles like "Logic and Reasoning," "Biomedical Ethics," "Contemporary Philosophy of Science," "Metaphysics," and "Philosophy of Psychology."
Maybe the wa...
No Kolmogorov complexity -- the course was really a history from Hume to about 1970. The next time I teach a seminar, I'm hoping to cover 1970 to the present. Still, this time around, a lot of the readings were technical: Ramsey, Jeffreys, Fisher, Neyman, De Finetti, Savage, Carnap, and others. You can see the full reading list here.
I agree that a nice course on progress could be done with a philosophy of psychology focus. I expect that progress-skeptics would object that the progress is in psychology itself, not in the philosophy of psychology. (I wo... (read more)