What defines the Indian tradition? Is there a singular Indian tradition or is there a plurality of Indian traditions in the public sphere today? How do these find representation in the modern and textual frameworks? Is modernity antithetical to tradition? The aim of this course is to take up... Read more
What kind of understanding of the past does history provide? Is it speculative or analytical? What constitutes historical evidence and how does it confine historical understanding? Questions of objectivity are the central focus of this course: that of historians themselves— constructionist and... Read more
This course concentrates on philosophical attempts to understand the concepts of reference, meaning, truth, the nature and presuppositions of communicative exchange. These are intensely debated topics in contemporary philosophy of language and the course aims a critical study of some of the... Read more
To familiarize students with the precise problems posed by Literature to philosophy, and vice-versa. To study the philosophical nature of the grounding concepts of literature—such as textuality, narrativity, fictionality, and intransitivity. To grasp the singular demand placed by these concepts... Read more
An appreciation of how the fundamental mental concepts are essentially amenable to philosophical sense over and above their usual psychological understanding and analysis. To explain why our mental conceptual scheme does not easily admit of their reduction to physical conceptual scheme. To... Read more
Students who complete this course will learn to engage with philosophical questions concerning the foundations of science, as well as the nature of scientific practice.
Science is regarded as the most significant cogntive enterprise of the modern society. In view of this, the course addresses the question what sets science apart from other epistemic activities. Further It concentrates on debates on the nature of scientific methods, logical reconstruction of... Read more
To explore the relationship between Philosophy and Social Sciences 2) To understand the significance of Social Sciences for the social existence of man 3) To take a critical standpoint on the logic of Social Sciences. 4) To explore the link between the Natural and Social Sciences.
Students taking this course will critically engage with key texts in political philosophy from a variety of philosophical traditions. The aim will be to engage with these texts as part of a living tradition of thinking about politics, and to mine them for insights about the contemporary world.... Read more
· To introduce students to politics from the combined perspectives of political philosophy, political theory, and the history of ideas.
· To familiarize students with different conceptions of politics through an understanding of the contexts in which they emerged.
· To encourage an... Read more
