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M.Phil. Philosophy Syllabus

Syllabus of Philosophy as prescribed by various Universities and Colleges.

Paper I

Sr. No.

 Subjects of Study

 

First Half (Research Methodology)

 

1. Norman Blaikie: Approaches to Social Enquiry, Polity Press Cambridge, 1993

 

(i) Basic Concepts of Methodology
(ii) Nature of Social Science; Classical and Contemporary Responses
(iii) Research Strategies: Inductive and Deductive; Reproductive and Abductive

 

Second Half

 

1.Richard Viet, Christopher Gould, and John Clifford: Writing Reading and Research (Second edition), Macmillan, New York, 1985

 

(i) Beginning a Research Project
(ii) Finding Library Sources
(iii) Putting Your Sources to Work
(iv) Paraphrasing Sources and Quoting Sources
(v) Bibliography (MLA Format), Chapter A

Paper II

 

Group A: First Half (Optional Papers)

 

Any one of the following:

 

1. Gotama: Nyayasutra (Sutras 2.1.8 to 2.1.20) with Bhasya and Varttika
2. Vacaspati Misra: Bhamati on ‘Adhyasabhasya’ (From Syadetat. Addha purvapratitimatramupayujyate to sarvatranasvasaparsangh)
3. Cigtsukha: Tattvapradipika: Eleven Purvapaksalaksanas and Siddhasntalaksana of svaprakasa
4. Jayanta Bhatta : Nyayamanjari (Ahnika I) : Pramanalaksana
5. Patanjali: Yogasutra (Sutras 2.29, 30,32,46,49,54;3.1‐3) with Vyasabhasya
6. Sri Aurobindo: The Ideal of Human Unity, (Pondicherry edn. 1997) Part I : Chapter 1‐2, Part‐II: Chapters 17,32‐34
7. K.C.Bhattacharya: Studies in lPhilosophy: Vol. II, Chapters I, III, V, VIII, and X

 

Group B: Second Half

 

 Any one of the following:

 

1. Michael Beaney (ed) : The Frege Reader, Blackwell, Oxford, 1997: (i) Thought, (ii) Function and Concept

 

2. Immanuel Kant; Critique of Pure Reason, trans. by N.K.Smith (Transcendental Dialectic)

 

3. L.Wittgenstein: Philosophical Investigations, trans. by G.E.M.j Anscombe, Basil lBlackwell, Oxfordl, 1968

(i) Privacy and Certainty
(ii) Private Language
(iii) Acquisition of Concept
(iv) Retention of Concept
(v) Epistemic Privacy
(vi) Privacy of Ownership

 

4. W.V.O. Quine: From A Logical Point of View, Harper & Row, New York, 1953

(i) On What There is
(ii) Two Dogmas of Empiricism
(iii) Notes on the Theory of Reference
(iv) Reference and Modality

 

5. M. Dummet: The Logical Basis of Metaphysics Duckworth, London, 1991

(i) Truth and Meaning Theories
(ii) The Origin and Role of the Concept of Truth
(iii) Realism and the Theory of Meaning

 

6. Nina Witoszek and Andrew Brennan (eds.): Philosophical Dialogues: Arne Naess and the Progress of Ecophilosophy, Rowman and Littlefield, 1999

(i) Contemporary Environmental Ethics – its Scope and Concerns, Theory of Inherent Value; Anthropocentrism and Speciesism
(ii) Deep Ecology—its Principles, Norms, Premises and Intuitions
(iii) Critique of Deep Ecology – The Feminist Critique, The Third World Critique of Radical Environmentalism; Social Ecology and Deep Ecology

 

7. Hans – Georg Gadamer: Philosophical Hermeneutics, Univ. Of California Press, 1977

(i) Hermeneutics – Its Different Senses, Hermeneutics as Act of lInterpretation and as an Art; Regional Hermeneutics, General Hermeneutics, Philosophical Hermeneutics
(ii) The Idea of Text, Understanding and Interpretation, The Life‐World Historicity, Situatedness and, Contextuality, Conflicts of Interpretations of Text, Criteria of appropriate Interpretation
(iii) Phenomenology and Hermeneutics, Existentialism and Hermeneutics, Hermeneutics and Deconstruction
(iv) The Development of Philosophical Hermeneutics: Dilthey, Heidegger, Gadamer, Habermus, Ricoeur

Note:

Two Term Papers

 

Two Seminar Papers

 

Dissertation


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