Philosophy
Philosophy of Mind, Analytic Philosophy, Classical Indian Philosophy (Buddhism, Sankya and Vedanta), Philosophy of Religion and Comparative Philosophy, Epistemology and Science, Analytic Philosophy, Existentialism, Phenomenology, Continental Philosophy, Applied Ethics, Philosophy of Language Contemporary Indian Philosophy, Existentialism, Phenomenology, Continental Philosophy, Applied Ethics, Twentieth Century Continental Philosophy, Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind, Cognitive Science, Wittgenstein, Alfred Korzybski, Philosophy and Popular Culture, Ethics, Ethics and SocialPolitical Philosophy, Feminist Philosophies, American philosophy, Continental philosophy, 20th Century Continental Philosophy: Heidegger, Foucault, Husserl, Gadamer, Phenomenology and Hermeneutics, Epistemology: Implications of the Historicity of Knowledge for its Universal Validity, Metaphysics: Implications of an Ontology of Events for Political Philosophy, History of Western Philosophy, Classical Indian Philosophy, Philosophical hermeneutics of Abhinavagupta, Indian Philosophy of Language, Indian Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art.
Philosophy - Faculty
Amrita Banerjee
Arun Iyer
C. D. Sebastian
Mrinal Kaul
Pravesh Jung Golay
Rajakishore Nath
Ranjan K. Panda
Ratikanta Panda
Siby K George
Vikram Singh Sirola
Philosophy - Course
Mind-Body problem: Interactionism, Instrumentalism, Physicalism, Epiphenomenalism, Dualism, Parallelism, Materialism, Non-Materialistic view of… Read More
Some Methodological Questions.
(a) Analysis and Philosophy
(b) Philosophy and Argument Scepticism and Rational Justification for… Read More
The concept of language in the philosophy of Wittgenstein. Meaning and Use. Symptom and Criteria. The Speech Act analysis of language: views of… Read More
The nature and functions of language: Language as social institution, arbitrary nature of language, symbolic nature of language, language as a… Read More
For this course, a scholar may choose for study one of the following major philosophical thinkers or major philosophical viewpoints. In case the… Read More
Phenomenolgical Method: Reduction, Constitution and Destruction in Brentano, Husserl, Merleau Ponty, Heidegger, Nietzsche, Sartre and Derrida.… Read More
The concept of language in the philosophy of Wittgenstein. Meaning and Use. Symptom and Criteria. The Speech Act analysis of language: views of… Read More
Some Methodological Questions.
(a) Analysis and Philosophy
(b) Philosophy and Argument Scepticism and Rational Justification for… Read More
Introduction to Indian Aesthetic traditions (both Sanskritic and non-Sanskritic), History and Development of the fundamental notions of art,… Read More
Development and growth of some of the major concepts, laws and theories from Babylonian astronomy to quantum theory by which physical scientists… Read More
Enlightebment Reason and it`s Fragile Interior: Validity Claims and Norative Action, Immanent and Transcendent sources of Realism and it`s… Read More
1. Critical Interrogation of Philosophical Methodology from a feministperspective.
2. Feminist Epistemology: Rethinking the Reason/Emotion… Read More
Relations between the family and civil society - Plato and Aristotle, Civility and Intellectual Autonomy – Kant, Civil Society as the site of… Read More
Life Ethics: Just War Theory, Killing, Death Penalty, Suicide, Abortion, Euthanasia Social Ethics: Mass Media Ethics, Justice and Democracy,… Read More
1. Critical Interrogation of Philosophical Methodology from a feministperspective.
2. Feminist Epistemology: Rethinking the Reason/Emotion… Read More
Introduction to Non-dual Shaiva Metaphysics, Concerns and Development, Fundamentals of Shaiva Logic and Epistemology, Theories of Consciousness,… Read More
This course will introduce the student to the philosophical contentions, ethical and political arguments and conceptions of the problems of life… Read More
1. Introduction to SankhyaSystem
2. Theory of Knowledge in Sankhya: Pratyaksa, Anumana, Apta-vacana. The Sankhya Theory ofError
3.… Read More
A study and examination of the logical, epistemological and ethical problems in the classical schools of Indian Philosophy, science and… Read More
1. Introduction to Orthodox Systems of Indian Thought and the place ofVedanta. 2. Six Schools ofVedanta 3. Advaita Vedanta andVisistadvaita 4. Six… Read More