For this course, a scholar may choose for study one of the following major philosophical thinkers or major philosophical viewpoints. In case the direction of the scholar"s research is such that the study of a philosophical thinker or viewpoint other than those listed here would enrich his research, he is permitted to take that for this course. Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Kant, Hegel Nietzsche, Karl Marx, Wittgenstein, G.E. Moore, Bertrand Russell, Gilbert Ryle, Austin, A.J. Ayer, P.F. Strawson, Brentano, Meinong, Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Albert Camus. Idealism, Realism, Materialism, Mechanism, Positivism, Rationalism, Indian Idealism, Pragmatism, Frankfurt School of Sociology, Existentialism.-