LESSON PLAN EVEN SEMESTER 2018 Session: 2 nd January, 2018 to 20 th April, 2018 PHIL 402: Indian Logic (Tarkasaṁgraha); UG, 4 th Semester

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1 LESSON PLAN EVEN SEMESTER 2018 Session: 2 nd January, 2018 to 20 th April, 2018 PHIL 402: Indian Logic (Tarkasaṁgraha); UG, 4 th Semester Dr. Mainak Pal Assistant Professor Department of Philosophy Sl. No. Topic Lectures 1. Introduction to the Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika System and Indian Logic 2 2. Definition of cognition (buddhi) 2 3. Definition of memory (smṛti) 2 4. Definition of true and false apprehension (yathārtha and ayathārtha anubhava) 4 5. Definition of instrumental cause and cause (karaṇa and kāraṇa) 4 6. Definition of effect (kārya) 2 7. Definition of Perception (pratyakṣa) 2 8. Determinate and Indeterminate Perception (savikalpaka and nirvikalpaka 2 pratyakṣa) 9. Different kinds of Ordinary Sensory Connections (sannikarṣa) Definition of Inference and its instrument (anumiti and anumāna) Parāmarśa and pakṣatā Universal Concomitance and its acquisition (vyāpti and vyāptigraha) Inference for oneself and for others (svārthānumāna and parārthānumāna) Analysis of five-part syllogism (pañcāvayavī nyāya) Classification of prabans (liṇga) Classification of pakṣa sapakṣa and vipakṣa Marks of correct probans (sadhetu) Definition of faulty probans (hetvābhāsa) and its kinds with examples Analogy or Comparison (upamiti) Whether Presumption (arthāpatti) and Non-apprehension (anupalabdhi) are 6 separate independent instruments of cognition? Total Lectures 64 Suggested Readings: English: Tarkasaṁgraha with Dīpikāṭīkā by Annaṁbhaṭṭa: Translated and annotated in English by Gopinath Bhattacharya A Primer of Indian Logic: Kuppuswami Shastri Bengali:

2 Tarkasaṁgraha with Dīpikāṭīkā by Annaṁbhaṭṭa: Annotated in Bengali by Narayan Chandra Goswami Tarkasaṁgraha with Dīpikāṭīkā by Annaṁbhaṭṭa: Annotated in Bengali by Translated in Bengali by Indira Mukhopadhyay. Tarkasaṁgraha with Dīpikāṭīkā by Annaṁbhaṭṭa: Annotated in Bengali by Pancanan Shastri.

3 LESSON PLAN EVEN SEMESTER 2018 Session: 2 nd January, 2018 to 20 th April, 2018 PHIL 1004 C: Contemporary Issues in Philosophy of Mind; PG, 4 th Semester Dr. Mainak Pal Assistant Professor Department of Philosophy Sl. No. Topic Lectures 1. What is Mental Content 2 2. Interpretation Theory 2 3. Causal Correlational Approach 2 4. Misrepresentation and the Teleological Approach 2 5. Narrow Content and Wide Content 2 6. Content Externalism: Putnam s Thought Experiment 4 7. Burge s Thought Experiment 4 8. Metaphysics of Wide Content States 2 9. Possibility of Narrow Content: Content Internalism Problem of Content Externalism Whether Mind is Extended Beyond Skull? Thought Experiments on Extended Mind Objections against the Theory of Extended Mind Reply to the Objection Introduction to the Problem of Other Minds Failed Schemes to Solve the Problem of Other Minds The Promising Schemes to Solve the Problem of Other Minds Folk Psychology Can we read others minds? - The Theories on Mindreading Three Accounts of Mindreading: A Comparative Analysis Reductionism and Personal Identity 6 Total Lectures 64 Suggested Readings: Mental Content in Philosophy of Mind (Chapter 8) - J. Kim, Westview Press, Colorado, Individualism and the Mental by Tyler Burge in Philosophy of Mind: Classical and Contemporary Readings-D.J. Chalmers, OUP, The Meaning of Meaning by Hilary Putnam in Philosophy of Mind: Classical and Contemporary Readings-D.J. Chalmers, OUP, Introduction: The Extended Mond in Focus by Richard Menary Clark in The Extended Mind, ed. Richard Menary, MIT Press, The Extended Mind by A. Clark and J. Chalmers in Analysis 58, Memento s Revenge: The Extended Mind Extended by Andy Clark in The Extended Mind, ed. Richard Menary, MIT Press, 2010.

4 Defending the Bounds of Cognition, by Fred Adams and Ken Aizawa in The Extended Mind, ed. Richard Menary, MIT Press, Coupling, Constitution, and the Cognitive Kind: A Reply to Adams and Aizawa by Andy Clark in The Extended Mind, ed. Richard Menary, MIT Press, Philosophy of Mind: An Introduction (Chapter 3: The Problem of Other Minds) George Graham, Blackwell Publishing, 2 nd Edition. The Blackwell Guide to Philosophy of Mind (Chapter 10: Folk Psychology by Stephen P. Stich and Shaun Nichols) ed. Stephen P. Stich and Ted A. Warfield, Blackwell Publishing. Reductionism and Personal Identity by Derek Parfit in Philosophy of Mind: Classical and Contemporary Readings-D.J. Chalmers, OUP,2002 Matter and Consciousness (Chapter 4) - P.M. Churchland, 1984, MIT Press.

5 LESSON PLAN EVEN SEMESTER 2018 Session: 2 nd January, 2018 to 20 th April, 2018 GenEd PHIL 432: Indian Epistemology and Metaphysics; UG, 4 th Semester Dr. Mainak Pal Assistant Professor Department of Philosophy Sl. No. Topic Lectures 1. Introduction: Basic features of Indian Philosophy 6 2. Division of Indian Philosophical Schools - Āstika and Nāstika schools 4 3. Introduction to Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika allied system 4 4. Nyāya Metaphysics: Sixteen kinds of padārthas 4 5. Nyāya Epistemology: Four sources of true cognition 4 6. Definition of Perception (pratyakṣa) 2 7. Determinate and Indeterminate Perception (savikalpaka and nirvikalpaka 2 pratyakṣa) 8. Different kinds of Sensory Connections (sannikarṣa) 2 9. Definition of Inference and its instrument (anumiti and anumāna) Process of Inference Universal Concomitance and its acquisition (vyāpti and vyāptigraha) Inference for oneself and for others (svārthānumāna and parārthānumāna) Analysis of five-part syllogism (pañcāvayavī nyāya) Vaiśeṣika Philosophy - Introduction, Seven categories (padārthas) Vaiśeṣika Philosophy - Substance or dravya Vaiśeṣika Philosophy - Quality or guṇa Vaiśeṣika Philosophy - Action or Karma Vaiśeṣika Philosophy - Universal or Sāmānya Vaiśeṣika Philosophy - Particular or Viśeṣa Vaiśeṣika Philosophy - Inherence or Samavāya Vaiśeṣika Philosophy - Absence or abhāva Vaiśeṣika atomism: Paramāṇukāraṇavāda 4 Total Lectures 64 Suggested Readings: English: Outlines of Indian Philosophy: M. Hiriyanna A Critical Survey of Indian Philosophy: C.D. Sharma

6 An Introduction to Indian Philosophy: D. M. Dutta & S.C. Chatterjee History of Indian Philosophy: S.N. Dasgupta Indian Philosophy: S. Radhakrishnan Indian Philosophy: J.N. Sinha Bengali: Bharatiya o Paschatya Darshan: S.C. Chatterjee Bharatiya Darshan: Debabrata Sen Sayan Madhaviya Sarva Darshan Samgraha: Styajyoti Chakraborti Nyaya Darshan: Phanibhushan Tarkavagish Nyaya Paricaya: Phanibhushan Tarkavagish Nyaya-Vaisesika Darshan: Karuna Bhattacharya Nyaya Tattva Parikrama: Kalikrishna Bandyopadhyaya