What makes philosophical thinking radically critical? Investigation of the nature of knowledge about the world and justification of knowledge claims. Metaphysical understanding of the Absolute and Mind-Body relation. The nature of ethical and aesthetic beliefs and attitudes as part of... Read more
An understanding of the philosophical question of Knowledge and Rational Belief by taking into consideration the possibility of Scepticism, and then attempting a critical comprehension of the Character of Epistemology by bringing into discussion contemporary developments such as Social... Read more
To provide the student with knowledge about the classical and contemporary philosophers who have directly or indirectly contributed towards constructing the intellectual edifice of fascism. This course will provide the student with the philosophical tools to critically engage with the structures... Read more
In this course, students are introduced to fundamentals of informal logic and verbal analysis, material and formal fallacies of reasoning often found ordinary discourse, deductive and Inductive reasoning, validity and soundness, formal rules and principles of the deductive system of Aristotelian... Read more
· Identify the philosophical grounds of concepts and approaches in the study of cognition and intelligent behavior.
· Demonstrate epistemological challenges involved in evaluating whether machines can have thought and other mental phenomena.
· Discuss notions related to computation,... Read more
The course is a critical study of the problem of the self taken to be a substance by some and denied to have any substantial reality by others. Focus will be given on examining the worldview from which stems the idea of a continuing self, as a subject of consciousness and agent of action.... Read more
This is primarily a course in applied ethics. It will focus primarily on questions like: What is the meaning of right action? Can ethical assertions be true or false? Is morality relative to society? Or can we say that acts have universal moral content? The course discussions will help to... Read more
This course addresses various philosophical questions that arise from the recent developments in evolutionary biology, genetics, immunology, sociobiology, molecular biology and synthetic biology. How do these developments affect our ideas about life, evolution and the place of man in relation... Read more
The objective of the course to respond to the cinematic image with the conceptual resources of philosophy. This is not a course in film appreciation. We shall learn to speak and write about what we see. We shall discuss some of the seminal philosophical works on Cinema.
To introduce students to key concepts on which definitions of philosophy are constructed, such as “concept”, “idea”, “opinion”, “argument”, representation”, “reason”, “knowledge”, “judgement”, “critique”; to discuss different traditions and critiques of philosophical thinking;
