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1 DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY Ravenshaw University UG Syllabus Total number of semesters = 06 Total number of courses = 20 Contact hour for each class= 1 hour Contact hours for each course = 50 Marks for each Course = 50 [Final exam 40 + Mid Term Exam 10] Duration of examination = 02 hours B. A. HONOURS COURSE PAPER NAME OF THE PAPERS MARKS First Semester AH GREEK PHILOSOPHY 50 AH ANCIENT INDIAN PHILOSOPHY 50 AH INTRODUCTION TO LOGIC 50 Second Semester AH WESTERN RATIONALISM 50 AH HISTORY OF INDIAN PHILOSOPHY-I 50 AH INTRODUCTION TO SYMBOLIC LOGIC 50 Third Semester AH WESTERN EMPIRICISM 50 AH INTRODUCTION TO MORAL PHILOSOPHY 50 AH SYMBOLIC LOGIC 50 Fourth Semester AH HISTORY OF INDIAN PHILOSOPHY-II 50 AH PHILOSOPHY OF KANT 50 AH ETHICS 50 Fifth Semester AH PHILOSOPHICAL CLASSICS (INDIAN) 50 AH SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY (INDIAN) 50 AH CONTEMPORARY INDIAN PHILOSOPHY 50 AH INTRODUCTION TO APPLIED ETHICS 50 AH LANGUAGE AND ANALYSIS 50 AH LOGIC AND ITS APPLICATION 50 Sixth Semester AH PHILOSOPHICAL CLASSICS (WESTERN) 50 AH SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY (WESTERN) 50 AH BIO-ETHICS 50 AH METAPHYSICS AND ANALYSIS 50 AH CONTEMPORARY WESTERN PHILOSOPHY 50 AH PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION 50 1

2 AH GREEK PHILOSOPHY DETAILS OF THE COURSES Pre-Socratic philosophers: being and becoming, mind and matter I Plato: theory of ideas, theory of knowledge and theory of soul Aristotle: critique of Plato, theory of forms and matter, theory of causation, metaphysics Suggested Readings: Stace, W.T., Critical History of Greek Philosophy, Macmillan, 1972 Thilly Frank, A History of Philosophy, Henry Holt and Company, New York, S.E.Stumpf, Socrates to Sartre, Mc-Graw Hill, Inc, New York. F.C.Copleston, A History of Philosophy, Image Books, New York. Supplementary Readings: Ewing, A.C., Fundamental Questions of' Philosophy Pati Ratnakar, History of Western Philosophy Masih Y., History of Western Philosophy AH ANCIENT INDIAN PHILOSOPHY Upanisadic Philosophy: The central themes of the Upanisads, Brahman and atman, individual self and atmajnana, the status of the world, maya, vidya, avidya I Values and moral considerations in the upanisads: The concept of Rta, varnashram dharma, purusarthas, the concept of shreyas and preyas the philosophy of Bhagavat Gita: Karma Yoga, sthitaprajna, Jnana Yoga, Bhakti Yoga Dutta, D.M and Chatterjee, S.C., An Introduction to Indian Philosophy Hiriyanna, M., Outlines of Indian Philosophy Sharma, C.D., A Critical Survey of Indian Philosophy Reference Books: Choudhury, Banabihari, Bharatiya Darshanara Ruparekha, (Odia Ttranslation of M. Hiriyana s Outline of Indian Philosophy), Publisher: A. K. Mishra, 2013 Nayak, G. C., Bharatiya Darshan Radhakrishnan, S., Indian Philosophy, Vol.I 2

3 AH INTRODUCTION TO LOGIC What is logic? sentence, statement and propositions and their kinds Categorical propositions and traditional square of oppositions Argument and argument form, premises and conclusions I Categorical syllogism Ven diagram and set theory Prescribed book: Copi, I. M., Introduction to Logic Suppes, P., Introduction to Symbolic Logic AH WESTERN RATIONALISM Rene Descartes: method of doubt, theory of God, mind-body relation I Benedict Spinoza: philosophical method, substance, attribute and mode Leibnitz: monads and pre-established harmony, freedom of the will Rene Descartes: Discourse Concerning the Method, Meditations on the First Philosophy Benedict Spinoza: Ethics G.W. Leibnitz: Monadology F. C. Copleston, A History of Philosophy, Image Books, New York. Thilly, Frank, and Ledgerword, A History of Philosophy, Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1955 Reference Books: Falkenberg, R., History of Modern Philosophy Pati, Ratnakar, History of Western Philosophy Masih, Y., History of Western Philosophy AH HISTORY OF INDIAN PHILOSOPHY-I Carvak (Lokayata): pratyaksa (perception), svabhavabada, dehatmavada, ethics 3

4 Jainism: syadavada, anekantavada, ethics I Buddhism: arya satya, pratityasamutpada, ksanabhangavada, nairatmyavada, nirvana Samkhya: Purusa, Prakrti, satkaryavada Sharma, C.D., A Critical Survey of Indian Philosophy Hiriyanna, M., Outlines of Indian Philosophy Dutta, D.M and Chatterjee, S.C., An Introduction to Indian Philosophy Reference Books: Choudhury, Banabihari, Bharatiya Darshanara Ruparekha, (Odia Ttranslation of M. Hiriyana s Outline of Indian Philosophy), Publisher: A. K. Mishra, 2013 Kar, B., The Philosophy of Lokayata, MLBD, 2013 Mohanty, J. N., Classical Indian Philosophy, Rowman and Little Field, 1999 (Free download of soft copy of the book is available in the site: bookfi.org) Nayak, G. C., Bharatiya Darshan Radhakrishnan, S., Indian Philosophy, Vol.I and II. AH INTRODUCTION TO SYMBOLIC LOGIC Unit- I Introduction: symbolic logic and classical logic, the use of symbols, logical form, inference and implication. The calculus of propositions: propositions and their relations, truth-functions, basic truth-tables of the propositional calculus, relation between truth-functions, further logical constants. I The calculus of propositions (contd.): the truth-table method of testing the validity of arguments, logical punctuation and the scope of constants The construction and application of truth-tables, an indirect method of truth-table decision, the classification of propositions Unit III Reference formulae, decision procedure and normal forms, the total number of truth-functional expressions, derivation by substitution Prescribed text: Basson and O Connor, Introduction to Symbolic Logic (first five chapters) 4

5 AH WESTERN EMPIRICISM Francis Bacon: Doctrine of Idolas, Inductive Method. John Locke: Refutation of Descartes Doctrine of Innate Ideas, Sources of Knowledge, Primary and Secondary Qualities of Things, Simple and Complex Ideas. I George Berkeley: esse est percipi, Immaterialism, Solipsism, God David Hume: ideas and impressions, doctrine of no-self, causality, classification of knowledge F.C.Copleston, A History of Philosophy, Image Books, New York. Thilly, Frank, A History of Philosophy, Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1955 Reference Books: John Locke: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding George Berkeley: Principles of Human Knowledge, and Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous David Hume: Enquiries Concerning the Human Understanding Morris, Locke, Berkeley Hume, Oxford, London (Ed.) A.J.Ayer, British Empirical Philosophers AH INTRODUCTION TO MORAL PHILOSOPHY Unit I Definition, nature and scope of ethics, relation of ethics to politics, sociology and religion Unit II Its concerns, normative ethics and meta-ethics, rights and duties, good and virtue Moral and non-moral action, object of moral judgement, moral standards Suggested Readings: Frankena, W., Ethics, Prentice Hall, India Lillie, W., An Introduction to Ethics 5

6 Supplementary Readings: Mackenzie, J.N. A Manual of Ethics Benn, Piers, Ethics, UCL, 1998 Baron, M.W., Petit, P and Slote, M, Three Methods of Ethics, Blackwell, 1997 Shaida, S.A., Problems of Ethics, Spectrum, Guwahati AH SYMBOLIC LOGIC Unit- I Elements of predicate calculus; some new forms of inference, singular propositions, further remarks on proper names and descriptions, relation between the propositional calculus and the predicate calculus The particular quantifier: existence, analysis of some quantified propositions, the universal quantifier, and the interpretation of quantifiers as conjunctions and disjunctions, free and bound variables: constants, interpretation and satisfiable formulae, the classical syllogism Unit- II Extensions of the Class of Formulae, Formulae with more than one Quantifier, Two-termed Predicates Satisfiability: Finite Domains, Two-termed Predicates: Infinite Domains, Logical Truth, Decision Procedures, Axiom Systems Unit- III The Syllogism and the Algebra of Classes, Classes and the relationships between them, The Boolean Algebra of Classes, Boolean Algebra of Classes and the Syllogism Basson and O Connor, Introduction to Symbolic Logic AH HISTORY OF INDIAN PHILOSOPHY-II Nyaya: pratyaksa, anuman, sabda, upaman Vaisesika: padartha, existence of God I Mimamsa: theory of knowledge, theories of error: akhyativada and viparitakhyativada Sankara s view on Brhman, Iswara, atman and maya Sankara: Brahman, atman, maya, liberation Ramanuja: Brahman, world, refutation of maya 6

7 Sharma, C.D., A Critical Survey of Indian Philosophy Hiriyanna, M., Outlines of Indian Philosophy Dutta, D.M and Chatterjee, S.C., An Introduction to Indian Philosophy Reference Books: Choudhury, Banabihari, Bharatiya Darshanara Ruparekha, (Odia Ttranslation of M. Hiriyana s Outline of Indian Philosophy), Publisher: A. K. Mishra, 2013 Mohanty, J. N., Classical Indian Philosophy, Rowman and Little Field, 1999 (Free download of soft copy of the book is available in the site: bookfi.org) Nayak, G. C., Bharatiya Darshan Radhakrishnan, S., Indian Philosophy, Vol.I and II. AH PHILOSOPHY OF KANT Copernican revolution in philosophy, critique of rationalism and empiricism, synthetic a priori, I Forms of intuition, categories of understanding metaphysical and transcendental reduction, transcendental unity of apperception Phenomenon and noumenon: the critique of transcendent metaphysics Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, (Ed. N. K. Smith, Cambridge University Press, London. Stephaen Korner, Kant P.F. Strawson, The Bound of Sense: An Essay on Kant s Critique of Pure Reason F.C. Copleston, A History of Philosophy, Image Books, New York AH ETHICS Moral Standards: Hedonism-psychological and ethical, utilitarianism (Bentham and Mill), Perfectionism Unit IV Theories of Punishment: Retributive Theory, Preventive Theory and Reformative Theory 7

8 Unit V Niskama karma of the Bhagavad Gita, Non-violence (Jainism, Buddhism and Gandhi) Shahakin, S., Ethics: Theories and Practice Reference Books: Baron, M.W., Petit, P and Slote, M, Three Methods of Ethics, Blackwell, 1997 Benn, Piers, Ethics, UCL, 1998 Frankena, W., Ethics, Prentice Hall, India Lillie, W., An Introduction to Ethics Mackenzie, J.N., Manual of Ethics Shaida, S.A., Problems of Ethics, Spectrum, Guwahati Sinha, J. N., Manual of Ethics AH PHILOSOPHICAL CLASSICS (INDIAN) Sankhya Karika by Isvar Krishna Or Tarka Sanghraha by Annam Bhatta AH SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY (INDIAN) The Ramayana on the relation between the ruler and the ruled) The Mahabharata on the nature of Dharma Manu and Kautilya on the characteristics of the ruler I Tilak & Gokhale on swaraj Gandhi on sarvodaya, Ambedkar on casteless society J. P. Narayan s concept of total revolution, contemporary social and political movements in India Suggested readings: Kautilya, Arthasāstra M.K. Gandhi, Swaraj or the Home Rule, Navajivan Trust, Ahmadabad, Balmiki, The Ramayana Rajagopalachari, C., The Ramayana Rajagopalachari, C., The Mahabharat Vyasadev, The Mahabharata 8

9 AH CONTEMPORARY INDIAN PHILOSOPHY Unit I Swami Vivekananda: Concept of Man, Universal Religion Sri Aurobindo: Evolution of Consciousness Unit II S. Radhakrishnan: Intellect and Intuition R. Tagore: Concept of Man, Problem of Evil J. Krishnamurthy: Tradition, Freedom and Education. M.K. Gandhi: Iswara, Satya, Ahimsa Suggested Readings: Lal, B.K, Contemporary Indian Philosophy, MLBD Radhakrishnan, S., An Idealist view of Life, George Allen and Unwin, 1971 Datta, D. M., Chief currents in Contemporary Philosophy Krishnamurthy, J: Freedom from the Known Tgore, Rabindranath, The Religion of Man Supplementary Readings: 1. Vivekananda, Swami, (Selections from The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda) 2. Hees, Peter (Ed.), Basic Writings of Sri Aurobindo, Oxford 3. Moitra, S.K., The Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo, Aurobindo Ashram AH INTRODUCTION TO APPLIED ETHICS Nature and subject matter of applied ethics I Environmental ethics: anthropocentrism, holicentrism, deep ecology, sustainable development Business ethics: man-nature relationship, corporate social responsibility, profit and ethics Suggested Readings: Singer, Peter, Practical Ethics Supplementary Readings: Mohapatra P.K. Ethics and Society: An Essay in Applied Ethics, Concept Publication New Delhi, Singer, Peter and Khuse, Alga, Bio-Ethics: An Anthology Beauchamp, T.L., LeRoy Walters, Contemporary Issue in Bioethics, Wadsworth Publishing Company,

10 Velasquez, Manuel, G., Business Ethics: Concept and Cases, 5 th edition, Pearson Prentice Hall, New Delhi, Almond, Brenda (ed.), Introducing Applied Ethics, Blackwell, UK AH LANGUAGE AND ANALYSIS Unit I Word Meaning, Definition, Vagueness, Unit II Sentence Meaning, Concept, Truth Unit III Sources of Knowledge, What knowledge is Hospers, J., An Introduction to Philosophical Analysis, Allied Publishers Limited Reference Book: Ewing, A. C., Fundamental Questions of Philosophy Ayer, A. J., The Central Questions of Philosophy, Penguin AH LOGIC AND ITS APPLICATIONS Basic Concepts of Argument Analysis: Well-formed Arguments, Deductive Soundness and Strength, Inductive Soundness and Strength I Reconstruction of Argument i. Argument Reconstruction and the principle of Charity ii. Identifying Premises and Conclusions iii. General and Specific Premises iv. Adding Implicit Premises Details of Argument Reconstruction i. Common problems in Reconstructing Arguments ii. Avoiding the Common Problems Evaluations of Arguments i. Basic Rules of Premise Evaluation ii. Evaluating Specific types of Premises iii. Ambiguity and Arguments 10

11 Feldman, Richard. (1993) Reason and Argument, Prentice-Hall Inc. Englewood Cliff, New Jersey AH PHILOSOPHICAL CLASSIC (WESTERN) Plato: Phaedrus or Russell: Problems of Philosophy AH WESTERN SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSPHY Social Concepts and Theories: Family, Nation, State and Ethnicity, Social Contract, Reforms and Revolution, Relation between Individual and Society: Individualism, Collectivism Socialism and Capitalism I Political Ideals: Equality, Justice, Liberty Democracy: Concept and Forms. Sovereignty (Austin, Bodin, Laski) Unit III Humanism, Secularism Feminism, Philosophy of Ecology Suggested readings: Sinha,J, Outlines of Political Philosophy Vol. I,II,III Raphel, D. D. Problems of Political Philosophy Barker, E., Principles of Social and Political Philosophy Lasleth, P. and Runchiman W.C., Philosophy, Politics, Human Society, 1972 Roy, Krishna and Gupta, Chhanda, Essays in Social and Political Philosophy, Allied Publishers Limited 11

12 AH BIO-ETHICS Scope and limits of Bio-ethics, consent, truth-telling, confidentiality I Life and death, euthanasia, abortion Genetic engineering, experiments on animals, human cloning Prescribed R Prescribed Readings: Singer, Peter, Practical Ethics, New York, 1979 Beauchamp, Tom L and Walters, LeRoy, Contemporary Issues in Bioethics, Wadsworth Publishing Company, California, Suggested readings: Rachels, James, The Elements of Moral Philosophy, New York, Regan, Tom, ed. Matter of Life and Death New York, Glover, Jonathan, Causing and Saving Lives, New York, AH METAPHYSICS AND ANALYSIS Analytic Truth, Technical, Empirical and Logical Possibilities Unit- II Substance and Universals, Mind and Body Realism, Idealism and Phenomenalism Hospers, J., An Introduction to Philosophical Analysis, Allied Publishers Limited Reference Book: Ewing, A. C., Fundamental Questions of Philosophy Ayer, A. J., The Central Questions of Philosophy, Penguin AH CONTEMPORARY WESTERN PHILOSOPHY Logical positivism I Pragmatism Phenomenology and existentialism 12

13 Suggested Readings: 1. Dutta, D. M. : Chief Currents of Contemporary Philosophy Supplementary Readings: Ayer, A. J., Language, Truth and Logic Urmson, J. O., Philosophical Analysis Bhadra, M. K., A Critical Survey of Phenomenology and Existentialism, ICPR, New Delhi, 1990 AH PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION Philosophy of Religion: Its nature and scope, the distinction between theology and philosophy of religion I Proofs for the existence of God: ontological, teleological and cosmological arguments Proofs against the existence of God: the problem of evil, objection from science, objection from Fruedian analysis Suggested readings: Hick, J., Philosophy of Religion, Prentice Hall Masih, Y., Introduction to Philosophy of Religion Supplementary Readings: Hick, J. (ed.), Classical and Contemporary Readings Hick, J., An Interpretation of Religion 13

DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY Ravenshaw University UG Syllabus (ELECTIVE)

DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY Ravenshaw University UG Syllabus (ELECTIVE) 2014-2017 Total number of semesters = 04 Total number of courses = 08 Contact hour for each class= 1 hour Contact hours for each course