Philosophy

1. Critical Interrogation of Philosophical Methodology from a feministperspective.
2. Feminist Epistemology: Rethinking the Reason/Emotion Binary, Standpoint epistemology, and Epistemologies ofignorance.
3. Feminist Metaphysics: Retrieving the Body, the metaphysics of sex andgender.
4. Feminist Moral Philosophy: Ethics of Duty versus Ethics of Care, Vulnerability and Moral Agency, RelationalAutonomy.
5. Feminist Socio-Political Philosophy: Care versus Justice, Affect and Politics, Perspectives on Empowerment and PoliticalAgency.

Enlightebment Reason and it`s Fragile Interior: Validity Claims and Norative Action, Immanent and Transcendent sources of Realism and it`s Critique through Kant nietzsche, Foucault and Deleuze. Derrida`s Radical Critique of Knowledge: Deconstruction, Singularity and Alterity, Identity Erasure; Subjectivity and Responsibilituy in Emmanuel Levinas and Derrida. Recovering the Text the and Meaning: Communicative Action of Habermas, Honneth`s Critique of Power, Lyotard`s Report on Knowledge.

Development and growth of some of the major concepts, laws and theories from Babylonian astronomy to quantum theory by which physical scientists explain the phenomena of the external world. Use of selected case studies to stress the interconnection of concepts and conceptual schemes to experimentation and observation, the relation between observed data and theoretical concepts, the intellectual procedures of the working scientists, Social and philosophical ideas, growth of knowledge. Analysis of the role of experience, Logical thinking, and free imagination in science.

Introduction to Indian Aesthetic traditions (both Sanskritic and non-Sanskritic), History and Development of the fundamental notions of art, beauty, creative imagination, intuitive awareness, phenomenon of relish etc.; Epistemology of aesthetic experience; Ontology of Art and Beauty; Philosophy of Suggestive meaning in art, Soteriological motive of art experience.