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M.A. Programme in Philosophy M.A. Programme in Philosophy (Semester System) Sessions, 2018-2019, 2019-2020, 2020-2021, 2021-2022

Session : 2018-2019, 2019-2020, 2020-2021, 2021-2022 Syllabus for the M. A. Examinations of 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 Students willing to get admission into the M.A. final year program in Philosophy are required to have B.A. (Hons.) degree in Philosophy. M.A. program has a duration of one M.A. First Semester academic year divided into two semesters. There are twenty Group A (Two courses need to be taken) five courses of which two courses will be offered from group A 501: Philosophy of Language and one course each from group B and Group C in the 1st 502: Philosophies of Russell and Moore semester, and two courses will be offered from group A and 503: Metaphysics one course each from group B and Group C in 2nd semester. 504: Post-modernism The offered Courses will be decided by the Department. 505: Philosophical Logic 1st Semester: 4 credits, 2nd Semester: 4 credits – 32 credits 1st and 2nd Semesters : 2 credits 2 credits Group B (One course need to be taken) Total 34 credits 506: Contemporary Political Philosophy 1st Credit 2nd Credit Total Total 507: Philosophy of Law Semester semester marks Credit 508: Philosophy of Economics 400+25 16+1 400+25 16+1 850 34 509: Feminist Philosophy

Marks distribution for each four-credit course Group C (One course need to be taken) Two mid-term tests of 15 marks each 15+15=30 marks Class attendance and participation 5+ 5=10 marks 510: Philosophies of al-Ghazali and Ibn Rushd 511: Contemporary Muslim Thought Semester final examination of 4 hour duration to be held at the 512: Sufism end of the year 60 marks M.A. Second Semester Marks distribution for each one credit (1/4th unit) course Group A (Two courses need to be taken)

Tutorial (attendance and participation) 5 marks 513: Marxist Philosophy Viva-voce 20 marks 514: Pragmatism and Humanism Total 25 marks 515: Phenomenology and Existentialism 516: Philosophy of the Bangalee (Contemporary) 517: Philosophy of Technology

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Group B (One course need to be taken)

518: Meta-ethics 519: Business Ethics 520: Practical Ethics 521: Medical Ethics 522: Administrative Ethics

Group C (One course need to be taken)

523: Buddhist Philosophy 524: Vedanta Philosophy 525: Contemporary Indian Thought

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Detailed Course Outline Books Recommended M.A. First Semester Austin, J.L. How to Do Things with Words, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1962. Group A Ayer, A.J., Language, Truth and Logic, New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1952. Course 501: Philosophy of Language Ayer, A.J. (ed.). Logical Positivism, Glencoe, Ill.: The Free Course Description Press, 1959. This is an advanced level course which deals with the nature of Chappell, V.C., (ed.), Ordinary Language, New Jersey: language and its role in philosophy, science and ordinary Englewood Cliffs, 1964. discourses. In this course students will study the theories of Carnap, R. The Logical Syntax of Language, London: meaning (semantics and pragmatics), the relationship between Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1935. the structure of language and the structure of the world. The Davidson, Donald and G. Harmon (eds.), The Logic of focus will be on the salient features of artificial language Grammar, Encino, CA: Dickenson Publishing Company, philosophy (with emphasis on Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein’s 1975. Tractatus, and Carnap) as well as of ordinary language ______, Semantics of Natural Language, Dordrecht, Holland: philosophy (with emphasis on Wittgenstein’s Philosophical D. Reidel Publishing, 1972. Investigations and Austin’s speech-act theory). Fodor, J.A. and J.J. Katz (eds.), The Structure of Language, The course has two parts with two required texts. First part New York: Prentice Hall, 1964. deals mainly with the theories of the nature, criterion and Frege, G. Selections from the Philosophical Writings of Gottlob dimensions of meaning. And the required text is William P. Frege, trans. by, Max Black, 3rd ed., Oxford: Blackwell, Alston’s Philosophy of Language. Second part will deal with 1980. Ludwig Wittgenstein’s philosophy of language exclusively Haque, Nayeema. Russell’s Theory of Meaning: Semantic and focusing on his Philosophical Investigations. Pragmatic Approaches, Germany: Lambert Academic Texts: Publishing, 2011. 1. Alston, William P. Philosophy of Language, Grice, H. P. Studies in the Way of the Words, Cambridge, MA: Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1964. Harvard University Press, 1989. Hospers, John. An Introduction to Philosophical Analysis, 2. Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Philosophical Investigations, tr. Bombay: Allied Publishers, 1975. by G. E. M. Anscombe, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1958. Kripke, Saul. Naming and Necessity, Cambridge, Mass.:

Harvard University Press, 1980.

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Lee, Barry. (ed.), Philosophy of Language: The Key Thinkers, Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Tractatus Logico-philosophicus, tr. by London: Continuum, 2011. D. F. Pears & B. F. McGuinness, London: Routledge & evsjv Abyev` : W. G. †K. Gg. mvjvnDwÏb, Linskey, Leonard. Semantics and the Philosophy of Language, Kegan Paul, 1961. Uªv±vUzm-†jvwM‡Kv-wd‡jv‡mvwdKzm : †hŠw³K-`vk©wbK wbeÜ, XvKv: MÖš’ KzwUi, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1952. 2015| Lycan, William G. The Philosophy of Language: A evmvi AvdRvjyj (m¤úvw`Z): UªvK‡UUvm I wfU‡Mb÷vB‡bi fvlvwPšÍv, XvKv, w`e¨ Contemporary Introduction, 2nd ed., New York: cÖKvk, 2003| Routledge, 2008. Martinich, A. P. (ed.), The Philosophy of Language, New _____, The Blue and Brown Books, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, York: Oxford University Press, 1985. 1969. ingvb, Gg. gwZDi, fvlv `k©b : kãv_© I evK¨v_©, XvKv: Aemi, 2015| McGuinness, Brian. Wittgenstein: A Life, London: Penguin, 1990. gywnZ, †gvt Avãyj, fvlv `k©b, XvKv: Aemi, 2012| Miller, Alexander. Philosophy of Language, 2nd ed., Oxford: Routledge, 2007. Course 502: Philosophies of Russell and Moore Morris, Michael. An Introduction to the Philosophy of Course Description Language, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Nye, Andrea. (ed.), Philosophy of Language: The Big This is an advanced level text-based course focusing on the Questions, Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 1998. philosophies of Bertrand Russell and G.E. Moore. Two texts, Odell, S. Jack. On the Philosophy of Language, Belmont, CA: with selected chapters, will be studied. The first one is the Thomson Wadsworth, 2006. Outline of Philosophy (1927) by Bertrand Russell; the second one is Some Main Problems of Philosophy (1953) by G.E. Parkinson, G.H.R. (Ed.) The Theory of Meaning, London: Moore. Russell’s later views on epistemology, philosophy of Oxford University Press, 1968. mind and ontology will mainly be dealt with. Moore’s Pitcher, George. The Philosophy of Wittgenstein, Englewood common-sense philosophy, his theories on the nature of sense- Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1964. data and propositions, his criticisms of Berkeley’s Russell, Bertrand. Logic and Knowledge, (ed.) R. Marsh, epistemological position and Hume’s scepticism, different London: Allen & Unwin, 1956. ways of knowing along with his realist interpretation of the Searle, John R. Speech Act: An Essay in the Philosophy of nature of material things will mainly be focused on in this Language, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1969. course. Soames, Scott. Philosophy of Language, Princeton; Princeton Texts: University Press, 2010. Stainton, Robert J. Philosophical Perspectives on Language, 1. Russell, B., An Outline of Philosophy, London: Allen and Unwin, 1961. evsjv Abyev`, Ave`yj gZxb, `k©‡bi iƒc‡iLv, Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview. XvKv : evsjv GKv‡Wgx, 1981|

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2. Moore G.E., Some Main Problems of Philosophy, White, A.R, G.E. Moore: A Critical Exposition, Oxford: London: Allen and Unwin, 1953. evsjv Abyev`, †gv: Ave`yi Blackwell, 1958. ikx`, `k©‡bi KwZcq cÖavb mgm¨v, XvKv : evsjv GKv‡Wgx, 1996| Wood, A., Bertrand Russell: The Passionate Sceptic, London: Books Recommended Unwin, 1963. Bmjvg, Avwgbyj, mgKvjxb cvðvZ¨ `k©b, 4_© ms¯‹iY, XvKv: gvIjv eªv`vm©, Ayer, A.J., Russell and Moore: The Analytical Heritage, New 2001| York: Macmillan, 1971. ____, cvðvZ¨ `k©‡bi BwZnvm: iy‡kv †_‡K mgKvj, XvKv: gvIjv e&ªv`vm©, Aiken, L.W., Bertrand Russell's Philosophy of Morals, New 2009| York: The Humanities Press, 1963. nvwg`, †gv: Ave`yj, we‡k¬lYx `k©b: wR.B.gy¨i, XvKv : Abb¨v, 2000| Haque, N., Russell’s Theory of Meaning: Semantic and Pragmatic Approaches, Germany: Lambert Academic Publishing, 2011. Course 503: Metaphysics Miah, Sajahan, Russell’s Theory of Perception, London: Course Description Continuum International Publishing, 2006. Metaphysics is the study of the most basic and general features Moore, G.E., Lectures on Philosophy, London: Allen & of reality. This course is designed as an advanced introduction Unwin, 1966. to some major topics in metaphysics. Some of the topics that _____, Philosophical Papers, London: Allen & Unwin, 1959. will be discussed in this course include: Nature of metaphysics, metaphysical systems and metaphysical arguments, Relation of Russell, B., An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth, London: Allen metaphysics to science, history and ethics, Is metaphysics & Unwin, 1966. worth pursuing? What sorts of things really exist? What is ______, My Philosophical Development, London: Allen & time? Do we have free will? Do universals exist? What is Unwin, 1959. causation? What is personal identity? ______, Logic and Knowledge, R.C. Marsh (ed.), London: Texts: Allen, 1956. 1. Garrett, Brian. What is this thing called metaphysics? Schilpp, P.A. (ed.), The Philosophy of Bertrand Russell, London: Routledge, 2006. (Selected chapters: chs. 2, 3, Chicago: Northwestern University, 1944. 4, 5, 7, 8) ______, The Philosophy of G.E. Moore, Cambridge: 2. Pears, D. F. (Editor). The Nature of Metaphysics, Cambridge University Press, 1942. London: Macmillan & Company, 1957. (Selected Urmson, J.O., Philosophical Analysis: Its Development chapters: chs. 1 to 6) Between Two World Wars, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966.

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Books Recommended Taylor, A.E., Elements of Metaphysics, London: Methuen, Carroll, John W. and Ned Markosian. An Introduction to 1927 Metaphysics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Tiles, Mary and Jim Tiles, An Introduction to Historical 2010. Epistemology, Oxford: Blackwell, 1993 Conee, Earl and Theodore Sider. Riddles of Existence: A Zimmerman, Dean W. (Ed.) Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, Guided Tour of Metaphysics, New York: Oxford vol. 1, New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. University Press, 2005. Course 504: Post-modernism Gale, Richard M. (Ed.) The Blackwell Guide to Metaphysics, Course Description Oxford: Blackwell Publishers Ltd., 2002. rd This course is a thorough introduction to the philosophical Inwagen, Peter Van. Metaphysics, 3 ed., Boulder, CO: thought of Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida, arguably the Westview Press, 2009. most distinctive philosophical voices in the second half of the Inwagen, Peter Van and Dean w. Zimmerman (Eds.) twentieth century, who are labelled as important post-modern Metaphysics: The Big Questions, Malden, MA: Blackwell philosophers. Students will become familiar with the radical Publishers, 1998. views of Foucault and Derrida and the challenge they present Kim, Jaegwon, Ernest Sosa, and Gary S. Rosenkrantz (Eds.) A to ideals, explanatory views and ways of thinking about the Companion to Metaphysics, 2nd ed., Malden, MA: self, society, history and the arts, which we have inherited from Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2009. the Enlightenment. Within philosophy, the challenge is Koons, Robert C. and Timothy H. Pickavance. Metaphysics: absorbed as a debate with current unquestioned (modern) views on metaphysics, epistemology, language, interpretation and The Fundamentals, Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell, 2015. aesthetics. Kutach, Douglas. Causation, Cambridge: Polity, 2014. Texts: Mumford, Stephen and Rani Lill Anjum. Causation: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1. Foucault, Michel. The Foucault reader, edited by Paul 2013. Rabinow, New York: Pantheon Books, 1984. Loux, Michael J. Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction, 2. Derrida, Jacques and Geoffrey Bennington. Jacques 3rd ed., New York: Routledge, 2006. Derrida, translated by Geoffrey Bennington, Chicago: Pink, Thomas. Free Will: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford: The University of Chicago Press, 1993. Oxford University Press, 2004. Books Recommended Sider, Theodore, John Hawthorne, and Dean W. Zimmerman Bertens, H., The Idea of the Postmodern, London: (Eds.) Contemporary Debates in Metaphysics, Malden, Routledge,1995. MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2008.

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†Nvl , iZbZby (m¤úvw`Z), DËivaywbKZv, XvKv: K_vcÖKvk, 2010| Cahoone, Lawrence E. (ed.), From Modernism to Postmodernism: An Anthology, Massachusetts: Blackwell, Rvnv½xi, †evinvbDwÏb Lvb, AvaywbKZv I DËi-AvaywbKZvi AwfÁZv, XvKv : 1996. AvMvgx cÖKvkbx, 1997| Callinicos, A., Against Postmodernism: A Marxist Critique, mvjvnDwÏb, W. G.†K.Gg., AvaywbKZv, XvKv: MÖš’KzwUi, 2014| Cambridge: Polity Press, 1989. Course 505: Philosophical Logic Connor, S., (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Postmodernism, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Course Content 2010. This course consists of selected essays on philosophical logic Delanty, G., Modernity and Postmodernity: Knowledge, Power which are given below: and the Self, London: Sage, 2000. G.W.F. Hegel – “Logic as Metaphysics” Dreyfus, H. and Hall, H. (eds.), Heidegger: A Critical Reader, J. Dewey – “The Application of Intelligence” Oxford: Blackwell, 1992. B. Russell – “The Principle of Induction” Foucault, M., Beyond Postmodernism. London: Routledge, 1994. _____, “Aristotle’s Logic” _____, The Order of Things, London: Tavistock Publication, _____, “Logic as the Essence of Philosophy” 1970. A. Schaff – “Marxist Dialectics and the principle of _____, The Archeology of Knowledge, London: Tavistock Contradiction” Publication, 1974 A. Pap – “The Laws of Logic are Conventions” Gore, A.E., Postmodernism and the Environmental Crisis, D. Hume – “The Problem of Induction” London: Routledge, 1995. J.S. Mill – “The Science of Evidence” Habermas, J., The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity, G. Frege – “The Thought: A Logical Inquiry” Cambridge: Polity Press, 1985. M. Dummett – “Truth” _____, Knowledge and Human Interests, London: Heineman, J.R. Searle – “Proper Names” 1981. O’Neill, J., The Poverty of Postmodernism, London: Books Recommended Routledge, 1995. Austin, J.L., How To Do Things With Words, Oxford: Powell, Jim, Postmodernism for Beginners, Hyderabad: Orient Clarendon Press, 1961. Longman, 1998. Copi, I. M., & Gould, J.A., (ed.), Readings on Logic, 2nd ed., AvBqye. mvjvnDwÏb, AvaywbKZv I DËi-AvaywbKZv, XvKv: gIjv eªv`vm©, 1997 New York: Macmillan, 1972. Flew, A., Logic and Language, New York: Doubleday, 1965.

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Quine, W.V.O., Philosophy of Logic, New York: Prentice-Hall, Democracy: Democracy as an ideal, arguments for and against 1970. democracy, liberal democracy, social democracy, socialist Stebbing, L.S., A Modern Introduction to Logic, 2nd (ed.), democracy. London: Methuen, 1933. Group B Strawson, P.F. (ed.), Philosophical Logic, London: Oxford Liberalism: Classical liberalism, Mill’s liberalism, new University Press, 1967. liberalism. ______, Introduction to Logical Theory, London: Methuen, 1963. Marxism: Marxist view of politics, Marxist theory of state, political philosophy of the Communist Manifesto. ______, Logico-Linguistic Papers, London: Methuen, 1974. Suppes, P., Introduction to Logic, New York: Van Nostrand Capitalism: Main features, political economy of capitalism, Reinhold, 1957. defects of capitalism, crisis of capitalism, imperialism as the highest stage of capitalism. Wolfram, Sybil., Philosophical Logic: An Introduction, London: Routledge, 1994. Socialism: Utopian socialism, scientific socialism, democratic gZxb, Ave`yj, `vk©wbK hyw³we`¨v, Ab~w`Z iPbv-msKjb, XvKv: evsjv socialism, liberal socialism. GKv‡Wgx, 1994| Feminism and environmentalism as political movements.

Books Recommended Group B Afanasyev, V.G., Marxist Philosophy, Moscow: Progress Course 506: Contemporary Political Philosophy Publishers, 1968. Course Content Attfield, R. and Wilkins, B. (ed.), International Justice and the Third World, London: Routledge, 1992. Group A Bronner, Stephen Eric (ed.), Twentieth Century Political Contemporary Political Philosophy: Main features, analytical Theory, New York: Routledge, 1997. political Philosophy, normative political philosophy. Cohen, M., Nagel, T., and T. Scanlon (eds.), Marx, Justice and Rights: Nature of rights, rights and state, human rights, right to History, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980. liberty and equality. Engels, Friedrich, Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, Trans. by Justice: Nature of justice (political, social and economic Edward Aveling, London: George Allen & Unwin, 1920. justice), Garner, James Wilford, Political Science and Government, Distributive justice: Nature and function of distributive justice, Calcutta: The World Press, 1951. Marxian concept of justice, Rawls’ theory of justice.

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Lvb, AvLZvi †mvenvb, gvK©mev` I b¨vqciZvi aviYv, XvKv: evsjv GKv‡Wgx, Gettell, Raymond Garfield, Political Science, Calcutta: The 2008| World Press, 1961. Goodin, R.E. and P. Pettit, (ed.), A Companion to Lvb, Mvwje Avnmvb, Av`k© iv‡óªi cwi‡cÖw¶Z I m¤¢vebvi evsjv‡`k, XvKv: RvZxq Contemporary Political Philosophy, Oxford: Blackwell mvwnZ¨ cÖKvk, 2012| Publishers, 1993. MÖvrwmqvbw¯‹, c.m., MÖvdw¯‹, f.M., †`‡qf, b.b., gvgyZ, j.m., gviwZwkb, I.f., Groth, A. J., Major Ideologies: An Interpretative Survey of †b‡mwmqvbrm, f.m., ivR‰bwZK gZev‡`i BwZnvm, 1g I 2q LÊ, bbx Democracy, Socialism, and Nationalism, New York: John †fŠwgK Ab~w`Z, XvKv: Aemi, 2009| Wiley, 1971. `vk, cÖvY‡Mvwe›`, ivóªwPš—vi BwZe„Ë, KjKvZv: wbD †m›Uªvj eyK, 2000| Harmon, M. Judd, Political Philosophy: From Plato to the ikx`, nviyb, gvK©mxq `k©b, 2q ms¯‹iY, XvKv: RvZxq mvwnZ¨ cÖKvk, 2014| Present, New York: McGraw Hill, 1964. Johari, J.C., Contemporary Political Theory, New Delhi: Course 507: Philosophy of Law Sterling Publishers, 1987. Course Content Laslett, P. (ed.), Philosophy, Politics and Society, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1959 . Problems of the definition of law: Lexical definition and deviant cases, pragmatic definitions Laslett, P. and W.G. Runciman (eds.), Philosophy, Politics and Structural problems, coercion and morality Society, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1962. Problems of legal reasoning, legislation and precedent Marx, K., The Manifesto of the Communist Party, in Marx- Engels, Selected Works in Three Volumes, Moscow: Descriptive and prescriptive theories Progress Publishers, 1968. Methods of discovery and standards of appraisal Rashid, Haroon, Normative Marxism: Making Sense of Jon Criteria of evaluation: substantive law, procedural law Elster’s Marx, Dhaka: Jatiya Sahittya Prokash, 2007, Lap Justice and morality Lambert Academic Publishing, Berlin, Germany, 2017. Books Recommended Rawls, J., A Theory of Justice, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971. Austin, J., The Province of Jurisprudence Determined, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1832. Roemer, J., (ed.), Analytical Marxism, Cambridge: Cambridge _____, Lectures on Jurisprudence, London: John Murray, 1920 University Press, 1986. Bentham, J., The Limits of Jurisprudence Defined, New York: Skoble, Aeon J. and Tibor R. Machan, (eds.), Political 1945. Philosophy: Essential Selections, Delhi: Pearson _____, An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Education and Dorling Kindersley Publishing, 2007. Legislation, London: E. Wilson, 1823.

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Fuller, L., The Morality of Law, London: Yale University Pitfalls of thinking about causality, correlation, & regression in Press, 1969. economics: Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc Fallacy, Ceteris Hart, H.L.A., Law, Liberty and Morality, London: Oxford Paribus Fallacy, & Fallacy of Composition. University Press, 1968. Moral Issues in Economics _____, Causation in the Law, Oxford: Claredon Press, 1959. Jenks, C.W., Law, Freedom and Welfare, London: Stevens, Criteria for welfare judgments: The Positive-Normative 1963. Distinction in economics, Consumers’ & Producers’ Surplus, Stone, J., The Province and Function of Law, Sydney: Pareto Optimality Criterion of welfare judgment, Kaldor Maitland, 1950. criterion, Scitovsky Double Criterion, interpersonal comparability. Course 508: Philosophy of Economics Some concepts about justice and the market system: Rights & Course Content freedom, justice & equality. Distributive, compensatory & Philosophical issues in economics are divided into three broad retributive justice, substantive vs. procedural justice. categories, viz., (a) Foundational issues especially concerning Justification of capitalism: Utilitarian argument – Adam the rationality of economic agents, (b) Methodological issues, Smith’s invisible hand theory, Rights-based Argument – and (c) Ethical issues. Emphasis will be given on questions Nozick’s Entitlement Theory. Criticism of Capitalism: concerning wellbeing and justice. Keynesian Argument Against Govt. Non-interventionism, Marxist Criticism of Free Markets. Foundational Issues & Rationality Fundamental Principles: Scarcity, rationality, preferences, Argument for the mixed economy. Rawls’s egalitarian theory restrictions, opportunity cost, the economic principle of justice: reducing injustice, Sen’s view on justice. Market (maximization or minimization), efficiency, marginal analysis, failure, externalities, & public goods. equilibrium. Books Recommended Rational Choice Theory: Game theory, optimizing vs. Arrow, K. J., Social Choice and Individual Values. New York: satisficing debate, mixed-motive games & the case of the Wiley, 1951. prisoner’s dilemma, Tit for Tat & other strategies for generating & sustaining cooperation. Collective Choice – the Axelrod, Robert M. The Evolution of Cooperation. New York: Paradox of Voting, Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem. Basic Books, 1984. Blaug, M., The Methodology of Economics, 2nd. ed., Methodological Issues Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Nature of economic theories, models, and laws: realism vs. Hausman, Daniel M., (ed.) The Philosophy of Economics : An predictability– An examination of Milton Friedman’s view. Anthology, New York: CUP, 1984.

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Heap, S. P. H, & Y. Varoufakis, Game Theory : A Critical Legal and political rights of women: Mary Wollstonecraft’s Introduction, London: Routledge, 1995. defence of women, women and equality, Mill’s philosophical Hoover K., Causality in Macroeconomics, Cambridge: view towards feminism, criticisms of Mill’s view, Peter Cambridge University Press, 2000. Singer’s thoughts. Hutchison, T., The Significance & Basic Postulates of Categories of feminism: liberal, radical and socialist feminism. Economic Theory, NY: A.M. Kelley,1960. Ecofeminism: environmentalism and philosophy, Plumwood Lipsey, R.G., An Introduction to Positive Economics, 3rd ed., and Warren’s views of ecofeminism. London: ELBS, 1971. Little, Daniel, On the Reliability of Economic Models : Essays Feminist ethics: Gilligan’s view, women’s experiences and in the Philosophy of Economics, Boston: Kluwer responsibilities, ethics of care, different ethical consciousness Academic Publishers, 1995. of women – various practices of caring relations, Nozick, Robert, Anarchy, State, and Utopia, New York: Basic, Wittgensteinian approach of understanding different 1974. perspectives of ethics of care. Rawls, John, Justice as Fairness : A Restatement, Cambridge: Feminist epistemology: ideal of rationality, Cartesian method, Harvard University Press, 2001. essentialism and post-modernism, knowledge and emotion in Robbins, L., An Essay on the Nature and Significance of feminist epistemology, subject and object, relativism Economic Science, 2nd. ed. London: Macmillan, 1935. considered. Samuelson, Paul A., & W. D. Nordhaus, Economics, 19th (ed.), Gender and language, use of gender words, endorsement of New York: McGraw-Hill, 2010. society, meaning of gender, epistemological reflections. Sen, Amartya, The Idea of Justice, London: Penguin Books, Feminist position to philosophy of science: modern science as 2009. patriarchy’s scheme, scientific/ philosophical reasoning, _____, On Ethics & Economics, New York: Basil Blackwell, Kuhn’s paradigm, feminist principle of nature. 1987. Violence against women: rights of women, concept of violence Zey, Mary, Rational Choice Theory & Organizational Theory : vs. knowledge, CEDAW consulted, violence and oppression in A Critique, California: Sage, 1998. third world and Bangladesh. Course 509: Feminist Philosophy Books Recommended Course Content Alcoff, L. and E. Potter, (eds.), Feminist Epistemologies, Gendered nature of philosophy: feminism, its origin and London: Routledge, 1993. meaning, status of women in Pythagorean and Plato’s Almond, B. (ed.), Introducing Applied Ethics, Oxford: philosophy. Blackwell, 1995.

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Audi, R., Epistemology: A Contemporary Introduction to the _____, cwi‡ek bxwZwe`¨v, XvKv: RvZxq mvwnZ¨ cÖKvk, 2009| Theory of Knowledge, New York: Routledge, 2003. †eMg, nvmbv, ˆbwZKZv, bvix I mgvR, XvKv: gvIjv eªv`vm©, 2003| Begum, H., Ethics in Social Practice, Dhaka: Academic Press, _____, bvix I Ab¨vb¨ cÖm½, XvKv: nv°vbx, 2002| 2001. ˆgÎ, †kdvjx, ˆbwZKZv I bvixev`, KjKvZv: wbD GR, 2003| Bowden, P., Caring, Gender-Sensitive Ethics, London: Routledge, 1997. Group C Cuomo, C.J., Feminism and Ecological Communities, London: Routledge, 1998. Course 510: Philosophies of Al-Ghazali and Ibn Rushd Garry, A. and M. Pearsall (eds.), Women, Knowledge and Course Description Reality, London: Routledge, 1996. Students will be required to study the prescribed texts of al- Jardins, R., Environmental Ethics: An Introduction to Ghazali and Ibn Rushd which have been considered to be Environmental Philosophy, California: Wadsworth, 1997. classical works in Muslim Philosophy for the last several Khanum, R.A., Contemporary Gender Issues, Dhaka: A. H. centuries. Development, 2012. Texts: Lafollette, H. (ed.), Ethics in Practice, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1997. 1. Al-Ghazali, Tahafut-al-Falasifa, English tr. S.A. Kamali, Lahore: Pakistan Philosophical Congress, Mill, J.S., The Subjection of Women, London: Longmans, 1974. evsjv Abyev`, gyn¤§` Av`gyÏxb, ZvnvdvZzj dvjvwmdv, XvKv: 1970. Bmjvgx dvD‡Ûkb, 1980| Moitra, S. (ed.), Women, Heritage and Violence, Calcutta: Papyrus, 1996. 2. Ibn Rushd, Tahafut-al-Tahafut, English tr. Simon Van Nettleship, R.L., Lectures on the Republic of Plato, London: den Bergh, London, 1954. Macmillan, 1963. Books Recommended Phillips, A. (ed.), Feminism and Equality, Oxford: Blackwell, Fakhry, M., A History of Islamic Philosophy, New York: 1987. Colombia University Press, 1970. Poole, R., Morality and Modernity, London: Routledge, 1996. Mustafa, K., Al-Ghazali’s Theory of Knowledge, Dhaka: Singer, P. (ed.), A Companion to Ethics, Oxford: Blackwell, Ramon Publishers, 2003. 1994. Sharif, M.M., (ed.), A History of Muslim Philosophy, 2 vols., Lvbg, ivwk`v AvLZvi, bvixev` I `vk©wbK †cÖ¶vcU, XvKv: RvZxq mvwnZ¨ cÖKvk, Wiesbaden, Germany: Otto Harrasswitz, 1963. 2011| Watt, W.M., Muslim Intellectual: A Study of Al-Ghazali, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1963

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Bmjvg, Avwgbyj, gymwjg ag©ZË¡ I `k©b, 2q ms¯‹iY, XvKv: evsjv GKv‡Wgx, Hai, S.A., Iqbal: The Philosopher, Dacca: Islamic Foundation, 1985| 1980. nvwjg, †gv. Ave`yj, gymwjg `k©b: †PZbv I cÖevn, 2q ms¯‹iY, XvKv: w`e¨ cÖKvk, 2002| Hakim, K.A., Islamic Ideology, Lahore: Institute of Islamic Culture, 1980. evsjv Abyev`, mvB‡q` Ave`yj nvB, Bmjvgx fveaviv, evix, †gv. Ave`yj, gymwjg `k©b, XvKv : nvmvb eyK nvDm, 2006| XvKv: Avj wnKgvn, 2004|

Course 511: Contemporary Muslim Thought Iqbal M., Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam, New Delhi: Kitab Bhavan, 1984. Course Content ______, Letters to Jinnah: Allama Iqbal’s Views on the The students are expected to be familiar with the main trends Political Future of Muslim , Lahore: Sh. Muhammad of Muslim thought in the Muslim countries as well as in other Ashraf, 1956. parts of the world since the later part of nineteenth century. , The Secrets of the Self, Trans. by R.A. Nicholson, Special emphasis will be given on the study of the following Lahore: Sh. Muhammad Ashraf, 1955. thinkers: Jamaluddin Afghani, Sir Sayyid Ahmad Khan, Allama Iqbal, Allama Azad Subhani, Rashid Rigas, Amin Moazzam, A. (ed.), Islam and Contemporary Muslim World, Ahmad Islahi, Ali Shariati, Sayyid Qutub, Allamah Muhibullah New Delhi: Light & Life Publishers, 1981. Bihari, Sulayman Nadwi, Sayyid Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi, Ustaz Mott, J.R., The Muslim World of To-day, London: Hodder & Asha'ri of Kualalumpur, Seyyed Husain Nasr. Stoughton, 1925. Books Recommended Mustafa, K., Al-Ghazali’s Theory of Knowledge, Dhaka: Ramon Publishers, 2003. Dar, B.A., A Study in Iqbal's Philosophy, Lahore: Sh. Ghulam, 1944. Nadvi, S.S., Muhammad: The Ideal Prophet, Trans. by Ahmad, Mohiuddin, Lucknow: Academy of Islamic Research and Esposito, J.L. (ed.), Islam and Development; Religion and Publication, 1981. Sociopolitical Change, New York: Syracuse University, 1980. Nadwi, Syed Abul Hasan Ali Hasani, Islam and the World (with a foreword by Qutub, Saiyid), Trans. by Kidwai, , The Oxford History of Islam, Oxford: Oxford Mohammad Asif, Lucknow: Academy of Islamic University Press, 1999. Research, 1973. _____ (ed.), The Oxford Dictionary of Islam, Oxford: Oxford , Pathway to Medina, Lucknow: Academy of Islamic University Press, 2003. Research, 1982. Fakhry, Majid, A History of Islamic Philosophy, New York: _____, Faith versus Materialism, Lucknow: Academy of Columbia University Press, 1970. Islamic Research, 1973.

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Quasem, M.A., Salvation of the Soul and the Islamic Acts of Hakim, K.A., The Metaphysics of Rumi, Lahore: Institute of Devotion, 3rd ed., Dhaka: Research Publications, 2011. Islamic Culture, 1977. Shariati, A., (ed.), A History of Muslim Philosophy, 2 vols., Iqbal, M., The Development of Metaphysics in Persia, Lahore: India: Low Price Publications, 1989. 1908. Sharif, M. M., About Iqbal and His Thought, Lahore: Institute Mustafa, K., Al-Ghazali’s Theory of Knowledge, Dhaka: of Islamic Culture, 1964. Ramon Publishers, 2003. Turner, Bryan S., Islam: Critical Concepts in Sociology, Nicholson, R.A., The Mystics of Islam, Beirut: Khayats, 1966. London: Routledge, 2003. _____, Studies in Islamic Mysticism, London: 1967. Vahid, Syed Abdul, Thoughts and Reflections of Iqbal, Lahore: Quasem, M.A., The Recitation and Interpretation of The Sh. Muhammad Ashraf, 1964. Qur’an: Al-Ghazali’s Theory, Malaysia: The University of Wali Allah, Shah, The Conclusive Argument from God: Shah Malaya Press, 1979. Wali Allah of Delhi’s Hujjat al-Baligha, Trans. by Marcia _____, Al-Ghazali on Islamic Guidance, Malaysia: Dr. M.A. K Hermansen, New Delhi: Kitab Bhavan, 2005. Quasem, 1979. Avj¬vgv AvRv` myenvbx, wec¬ex bex, Abyev`K gywReyi ingvb, XvKv: Avn‡g` _____, The Jewels of the Qur’an: Al-Ghazalis Theory, cvewjwks nvDm, ˆPÎ 1382| Malaysia: The University of Malaya Press, 1977. BmjvwgK dvD‡Ûkb evsjv‡`k, Bmjvgx wek¦‡Kvl, cuwPk LÊ, XvKv: BmjvwgK _____, The Ethics of Al-Ghazali: A Composite Ethics in Islam, dvD‡Ûkb evsjv‡`k, 1986-1996| 3rd ed., Dhaka: Research Publications, 2011. _____, Al-Ghazali on the Necessity of Action with Knowledge, Course 512: Sufism Dhaka: Research Publications, 2012. Course Content Spencer, S., Mysticism in World Religion, Harmonds Work: Students will be required to acquire in-depth knowledge of the Penguin Books, 1963. following topics: Nature, scope and aims of Sufism; origin of Trimingham, J.S., The Sufi Orders in Islam, London: Oxford Sufism; relation of Sufism to the Islamic Shariah; historical University Press, 1971. development of Sufism from the beginning to the present day Waliullah, Sh., Sufism and The Islamic Tradition, London: with special reference to different sufi orders. Doctrines and Octagon Press, 1980. the practices of the great Sufis: medieval, modern and Avb&IqviDj¬vn, gydZx gvIjvbv gynv¤§` (msKwjZ), Avj- †KviAvb I nv`x‡mi contemporary. Sufism and morality; Sufism and global peace. Av‡jv‡K AvDwjqv‡q †Kivg, XvKv: XvKv Avn&Qvwbqv wgkb, 2005| Books Recommended Avn&QvbDj¬v, Lvbevnv`yi Qzdx, 7g ms¯‹iY, XvKv: XvKv Avn&Qvwbqv wgkb, 1996| Afifi, A.E., The Mystical Philosophy of Muhyid Din Ibnul Bmjvg, Avwgbyj, gymwjg ag©ZË¡ I `k©b, XvKv : evsjv GKv‡Wgx, 1985| Arabi, Lahore: 1979.

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M.A. Second Semester Economic philosophy: Theory of surplus value, surplus value and exploitation, principle of distribution. Group A Philosophical anthropology: Marxist concept of human nature, Course 513: Marxist Philosophy problem of alienation, concept of morality, Marxist humanism. Course Content Recent trends: Western Marxism, Analytical Marxism, Normative Marxism. Group A Books Recommended Marxist view of the origin and nature of philosophy: Marxism and traditional philosophy, fundamental problem of Afanasyev, Marxist Philosophy, Moscow: Progress Publishers, philosophy, idealism versus materialism, Marxism as 1980. philosophy of practice, Marxism and science. Althusser, L., For Marx, New York: Vintage Books, 1970. Emergence of Marxism: Three sources and three aspects of Bottomore, T.B. (ed.), Karl Marx : Early Writings, London: Marxism, critique of classical German philosophy. Watts, 1963. Engels, F., Anti-Dühring, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, Dialectical materialism: Main features and basic laws of 1976. dialectical materialism. Elster, Jon. (ed.), Karl Marx: A Reader, Cambridge: Marxist epistemology: Critique of traditional epistemology, Cambridge University Press, 1986. subjectivity and objectivity in knowledge, the role of practice ____, An Introduction to Karl Marx, Cambridge: Cambridge in knowledge, conceptual and perceptual knowledge, University Press, 1986. knowledge and truth. Hook, S., Towards the Understanding of Karl Marx, London: Dialectical logic: Marxism and traditional logic, Hegel’s Victor Gollancf, 1933. dialectical logic, Marx’s materialistic dialectical logic, ____, World Communism, Toronto: Van Nostrand, 1962. dialectical logic versus formal logic. Lichtheim G., Marxism: An Historical and Critical Study, New Group B York: Columbia University Press, 1982. Marxist materialism: Materialistic conception of history, base Marcuse, H., Soviet Marxism: A Critical Analysis, London: and superstructure, economic determinism. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1968. Class-concept: Class philosophy, law of class struggle, Marx, K., The Poverty of Philosophy, Moscow: Progress philosophy of social revolution. Publishers, 1947.

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____, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844, Course 514: Pragmatism and Humanism Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1981. Course Description Marx, K. & Engels, F., The Communist Manifesto, Penguin, Hammondsworth, 1967. The purpose of the course is to make the students acquainted with some salient features of Pragmatism and Humanism. ____, The German Ideology, Moscow: Progress Publishers, Discussion will be based on the texts prescribed. 1971. Texts: ____, Selected Works, 3 vols., Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1968. 1. William James, Pragmatism, New York: Longmans, Marx, K., F. Engels, and V.I. Lenin, On Dialectical 1907. Materialism, Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1976. 2. F.C.S. Schiller, Studies in Humanism, London: Popper, K., The Open Society and its Enemies, London: Macmillan, 1907. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1962. Books Recommended Rashid, Haroon, Normative Marxism: Making Sense of Jon Buchler, J., The Philosophy of Peirce, London: Routledge, Elster’s Marx, Dhaka: Jatiya Sahittya Prokash, 2007, Lap 1956. Lambert Academic Publishing, Berlin, Germany, 2017. Dewey, J., Reconstruction in Philosophy, New York: The New Tucker, Philosophy and Myth in Karl Marx, Cambridge: American Library, 1955. Cambridge University Press, 1964. Bmjvg, Avwgbyj, mgKvjxb cvðvZ¨ `k©b, 4_© ms¯‹iY, XvKv: gvIjv eªv`vm©, _____, Philosophy and Civilization, New York: Minton, 1931. 2001| Gallie, W.B., Peirce and Pragmatism, New York: Penguin, Lvb, AvLZvi †mvenvb, gvK©mev` I b¨vqciZvi aviYv, XvKv : evOjv GZv‡Wwg, 1952. 2008| James, W., Meaning of Truth, London: Longmans, 1909. ikx`, nviyb, gvK©mxq `k©b, 2q ms¯‹iY, XvKv: RvZxq mvwnZ¨ cÖKvk, 2014| Ruben, Abel, The Pragmatic Humanism of F.C.S Schiller, New ingvb, W. Gg. gwZDi (m¤úvw`Z), gvK©mxq `k©b: gvbyl I mgvR, 1g LÊ, XvKv: York, 1955. Aemi, 1g cÖKvk, 2014| Scheffler, I., Four Pragmatists: A Critical Introduction to , gvK©mxq `k©b: gvbyl I mgvR, 2q LÊ, XvKv: Aemi, 1g cÖKvk, 2014| Peirce, James, Mead, and Dewey, London: Routledge & ____ Kegan Paul, 1974. , gvK©mxq `k©b: gvbyl I mgvR, 3q LÊ, XvKv: Aemi, 1g cÖKvk, 2014| ____ Schiller, F.C.S., Humanism: Philosophical Essays, London: Macmillan, 1903. Wiener, P.P. & Young, F.H. (eds.), Studies in the Philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce, Cambridge: Mass, 1952.

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Bmjvg, Avwgbyj, mgKvjxb cvðvZ¨ `k©b, 4_© ms¯‹iY, XvKv: gvIjv eªv`vm©, Horkheimer, Max & Theodor W. Adorno, Dialectic of 2001| Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments, Ed. by Gunzelin ____, cvðvZ¨ `k©‡bi BwZnvm: iy‡kv †_‡K mgKvj, XvKv: gvIjv e&ªv`vm©, Schmid Noerr, trans. by Edmund Jephcott, Redwood City, 2009| CA: Stanford University Press, 2007. Bmjvg, bRiyj, Av‡gwiKvb cÖ‡qvMev`, cvm©, †Rgm I wWDB, XvKv: mvwnwZ¨Kv, Husserl, E., The Idea of Phenomenology, The Hague, 1964. 2006| ______, Ideas, Tr. by W.R. Bayee, Gibson, New York: Collier Books, 1931. evOjv Abyev`, W. cwi‡Zvl `vk, `v AvBwWqvm, XvKv: Course 515: Phenomenology and Existentialism evOjv GKv‡Wwg, 2013| Course Description Jaspers, K., Philosophy, 2 vols., Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1969. This course will have two parts, one concentrating on phenomenology and the other on existentialism. The first part Jay, Martin., The Dialectical Imagination: A History of the itself will have two approaches dealing with phenomenology Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research, proper and existential phenomenology. This approach is 1923-1950, California: University of California Press, intended for giving the students a comprehensive idea of the 1996. nature, origin and development of phenomenology. The study Kierkegaard, S., The Concept of Dread, Princeton: Princeton will particularly focus on how some existentialists (Heidegger, University Press 1944. Sartre, Marleau Ponty) have developed their thoughts out of ______, Either/Or, London: Oxford University Press, 1946. Husserl's phenomenological method. In the second part the study will be devoted to existentialism with reference to some King, M., Heidegger's Philosophy, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, major thinkers, namely, Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Jaspers and 1964. Sartre. May, Todd. (Ed.), Twentieth Century Continental Philosophy, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1997. Texts: Sartre, J.P., Being and Nothingness, New York: Washington 1. Husserl, E., Ideas, Tr. by W.R. Bayee, Gibson, New Square Press, 1971. York: Collier Books, 1931. ______, Existentialism and Humanism, London: Methuen, 2. Sartre, J.P., Being and Nothingness, New York: 1970. Washington Square Press, 1971. ______, Nausea, London: Penguin, 1965. Books Recommended Spiegelberg, H., The Phenomenological Movement, The Heidegger, M., Existence and Being, London: Vision Press, Hague, 1960. 1949. Warnock, M., The Philosophy of Sartre, London: Hutchinson University Library, 1971.

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†gv. gwZDi ingvb, evOvwji `k©b : gvbyl I mgvR, Dwbk kZK, XvKv: evsjv White, S.K., Political Theory and Postmodernism, Cambridge: GKv‡Wgx, 2001| Cambridge University Press, 1991. Bmjvg, Avwgbyj, mgKvjxb cvðvZ¨ `k©b, 4_© ms¯‹iY, XvKv: gvIjv eªv`vm©, _____, evOvwji `k©b : eªvþ fveaviv, 3 LÊ, XvKv: GwkqvwUK †mvmvBwU Ae 2001| evsjv‡`k, 2012| PvKgv, bxiyKzgvi, Aw¯—Z¡ev` I e¨w³¯^vaxbZv, XvKv: evsjv GKv‡Wgx, 2q KvRx Ave`yj I`y`, KvRx Ave`yj I`y` iPbvejx, XvKv: evsjv GKv‡Wgx, 1990| cybg©y`ªY, 2011| †gvnv¤§` eiKZDjvn, gvby‡li ag©, KwjKvZv: gymwjg cvewjwks nvDm, 1340| `vk, W. cwi‡Zvl, ûmv‡j©i cÖwZfvm weÁvb, m„wó cvewj‡Kkb, XvKv, 2019| iex›`ªbv_ VvKzi, gvby‡li ag©, KwjKvZv: wek¦fviZx MÖš’b wefvM, 1393| ivq, W. cÖ`xc (m¤úvw`Z), iv‡g›`ª my›`i w·e`x †kªô cÖeÜ, XvKv : wek¦mvwnZ¨ Course 516: Philosophy of the Bangalee (Contemporary) †K›`ª, 2013| Course Content ivq, W. cÖ`xc (m¤úvw`Z), †Mvwe›`P›`ª †`‡ei †kªô cÖeÜ, XvKv : wek¦ mvwnZ¨ †K›`ª, 2013| Modern and contemporary philosophical trends in Bangalee philosophical thoughts. Bengal renaissance, Rammohun Roy, †nv‡mb, AvBqye (m¤cvw`Z), AviR Avjx gvZzeŸi iPbv mgMÖ, 1g, 2q, 3q LÊ, Akshoy Kumar Dutta, Derozio and Young Bengal; XvKv : cvVK mgv‡ek, 1994| Devendranath Tagore, Keshubchandra Sen, Isvarchandra dRjyj nK, Aveyj Kv‡mg, eyw×i gyw³ Av‡›`vjb I DËiKvj, XvKv : RvM„wZ Vidyasagar, Bankimchandra Chattopaddhaya, Swami cÖKvkbx, 2008| Vivekananda, Sri Aurovindo, Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, wmivRyj nK, †Lv›`Kvi, gymwjg mvwnZ¨ mgvR : mgvRwPš—v I mvwnZ¨Kg©, XvKv , Ramendra Sundar Trivedi and wek¦we`¨vjq †_‡K wcGBP.wW. wWwMÖcÖvß Awfm›`‡f©i MÖš’iƒc, XvKv: 2q Manobendranath Roy. ms¯‹viY, 2006| Recent trends in Bangla philosophy – Buddhir Mukti Andolan nvi“b, kixd (m¤cvw`Z), evsjv‡`‡k `k©b : HwZn¨ I cÖK…wZ AbymÜvb, 3q – Kazi Abdul Odud, Syed Abul Hussain, Kazi Mutaher LÊ, XvKv : evsjv GKv‡Wwg, 1994| Hossain, Khan Bahadur Ahsanullah, , †RvqvÏ©vi, wm×v_© ksKi, `k©b wkí I mgvR, XvKv: RvZxq mvwnZ¨ cÖKvk, , Muhammad Barkatullah, Abul 2012| Hashim, Govinda Chandra Dev, Araj Ali Matubbar, Dewan †Nvl, AwRZKzgvi (m¤cvw`Z), ivg‡gvnb iPbvejx, KwjKvZv : e½xq mvwnZ¨ Muhammad Azraf and Mahanambrata Brahmachari. cl©r, 1973| Books Recommended e‡›`vcva¨vq, wnib¥q, iex›`ª `k©b, KwjKvZv : iex›`ªfviZx wek¦we`¨vjq, 1963| Avwgbyj Bmjvg, evOvwji `k©b : cÖvPxbKvj †_‡K mgKvj, XvKv: gvIjv eªv`vm©, nK, nvmvb AvwRRyj (m¤cvw`Z), †Mvwe›` P›`ª †`e iPbvejx, 3q LÊ, XvKv: 2002| evsjv GKv‡Wwg, 1997| cÖ_g cybgy©`ªY I cwigvR©b, XvKv: †Mvwe›` †`e `k©b M‡elYv †K›`ª, XvKv wek¦we`¨vjq, 2018| _____, evsjv‡`‡k `k©b I Ab¨vb¨ cÖeÜ, XvKv : XvKv wek¦we`¨vjq cÖKvkbv ms¯’v, 2005| Avwgbyj Bmjvg fyBqv, iex›`ªbv_ : `k©bfvebv, XvKv: g~a©b¨, 2011| ivq, ivg`yjvj, evOvwji `k©b : cÖvPxbKvj †_‡K mgKvj, biwms`x, myifx cvewj‡Kkb, 2006|

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Kvw`i, Ave`yj (m¤úvw`Z), †iv‡Kqv iPbvejx, XvKv: evsjv GKv‡Wwg, 1999| Technology: Its nature and history Das, Chandra Mohan, The Philosophy of Rabindranath Tagore, Philosophy and technology New Delhi: Deep & Deep Publications, 1996. History of the philosophy of technology Dasgupta, S.N., Hindu Mysticism, Chicago: Open Court Relation between science and technology Publishing, 1927. Artifacts and natural things Epistemology and technology Dev, G.C., The Philosophy of Vivekananda and The Future Technological determinism Man, Dacca: Ramkrishna Mission, 1963. Environment and technology Huda, Mohammad Nurul (ed.), Nazrul: An Evaluation, Dhaka: Technology and future of human being Nazrul Institute, 1997. Technology and ethics Huq, Hassan Azizul (ed.), Works of Govinda Chandra Dev, Technology and aesthetics vol. I, 2nd ed., Dhaka: Dev Centre for Philosophical Studies, University of Dhaka, 2013 Books Recommended ______(ed.), Works of Govinda Chandra Dev, vol. II, 2nd ed., Budinger Thomas F. and Miriam D. Budinger, Ethics of Emerging Dhaka: Dev Centre for Philosophical Studies, University Technologies: Scientific Facts and Moral Challenges, of Dhaka, 2013. Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley, 2006. Matubbar, Aroj Ali, The Quest For Truth: Secular Philosophy, Dakers, John R. (ed.), Defining Technological Literacy: tr. by M. Shamsuddoha & T.A. Majumder, Dhaka: Pathak Towards an Epistemological Framework, Hampshire, Shamabesh, 1998. UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Rahman, Mizanur, Nazrul Islam, Dacca: Iqbal-Nazrul Islam Dusek, Val. Philosophy of Technology: An Introduction, Society, 1960. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2006. Sen, Asok, Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar and His Elusive Ellul, Jacques. The Technological Society, Translated by John Milestones, Calcutta: Riddhi-Indial, 1977. Wilkinson (1964), New York: Knopf, 1954. Course 517: Philosophy of Technology The Technological System, Translated by Joachim Course Description Neugroschel (1980), New York: Continuum, 1977. The goal of this course is to engage participants with the nature Fellows, Roger. (ed.), Philosophy and Technology, Cambridge: of philosophy of technology and technological impacts on Cambridge University Press, 1996. human life, society and environment. The course will examine Feenberg, Andrew. Questioning Technology, London: philosophical issues involving technology, and will address the Routledge, 1999. following topics: Ferre, Frederick Philosophy of Technology, Englewood Cliffs, Course Content New Jersey: Prentice- Hall, 1988.

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Fuller, Steve. The Philosophy of Science and Technology Pragmatist Spirit, Dordrecht: Springer, 2011. Studies, New York: Routledge, 2006. de Poel, Ibo van and David Goldberg. (eds.), Philosophy and Hackett, Edward J. et al., (eds.), The Handbook of Science and Engineering: An Emerging Agenda, Dordrecht: Springer, Technology Studies, Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT 2010. Press, 2008. Sismondo, Sergio. An Introduction to Science and Technology Heidegger, Martin. The Question Concerning Technology and Studies, 2nd ed., Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. Other Essays Translated by William Lovitt, New York and de Vries Marc J. Teaching About Technology: An Introduction London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1977. to the Philosophy of Technology for Non-philosophers, Johnson, Deborah G. and Jameson M. Wetmore, (eds.), Dordrecht: Springer, 2005. Technology and Society: Building Our Sociotechnical Wendling, Amy E. Karl Marx on Technology and Alienation, Future, Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2009 Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. Kroes, Peter and Peter-Paul Verbeek. (eds.), The Moral Status Zittel, Claus et al., (eds.), The Philosophies of Technologies: of Technical Artefacts, Dordrecht: Springer, 2014 . Francis Bacon and His Contemporaries, Leiden, Boston: Marx, Karl. A Contribution to the Critique of Political Brill Academic Publishers, 2008. Economy, trans. by N.I. Stone. Chicago: Charles H. Kerr b~iy¾vgvb, †gv., cÖhyw³i `k©b, XvKv : RvZxq mvwnZ¨ cÖKvk, 2014| & Company, 1859. _____, cÖhyw³i bxwZwe`¨v, XvKv : RvZxq mvwnZ¨ cÖKvk, 2018| McNeill, Yan (ed.), An Encyclopedia of the History of , cÖhyw³i ms¯‹…wZ, XvKv : RvZxq mvwnZ¨ cÖKvk, 2019| Technology, London, New York: Routledge, 1990. _____ Meijers Anthonie (ed.), Philosophy of Technology and Engineering Sciences, Amsterdam: North Holland, Group B 2009. Mitcham, Carl. Thinking Through Technology: The Path Course 518: Meta-ethics between Engineering and Philosophy, Chicago: The Text: Hudson, W. D., Modern Moral Philosophy, London: University of Chicago Press, 1994. Macmillan, 1970. Olsen, Jan Kyrre Berg et al., (eds.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Technology, Malden, MA: Wiley- Selected topics Blackwell, 2009. Moral discourse and moral philosophy: An example of moral Pacey, Arnold. The Culture of Technology, Cambridge, discourse. Is there a connection between moral philosophy and Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1983. first order moral discourse? Pitt, Joseph C. Doing Philosophy of Technology: Essays in a Moore and the rejection of ethical naturalism

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The emotivist theory: A.J. Ayer and C. L. Stevenson. _____, Ethics in Theory and Practice, New York: Thomas Y. Prescriptivism: R.M. Hare Crowell, 1956. Descriptivism: The Is-ought Question controversy Hudson, W.D., The Is-Ought Question, London: Macmillan 1969. Hume and Searle Hume, D., A Treatise of Human Nature, 2nd ed., Oxford: Books Recommended Clarendon Press, 1978. Ayer, A.J., Language, Truth and Logic, London: Victor Miller, Alexander, An Introduction to Contemporary Gollauer, 17th Impression, 1967. Metaethics, Oxford: Blackwell, 2003. ______, The Central Questions of Philosophy, New Delhi: Moore, G. E., Principia Ethica, Cambridge: Cambridge Macmillan, 1979. University Press, 1968. evsjv Abyev`, nvmbv †eMg, bxwZwe`¨vi g~jbxwZ, XvKv: evsjv GKv‡Wgx, 1985| Begum, H., Moore's Ethics, Theory and Practice, 2nd (ed.), Dhaka, 1982. evsjv Abyev`, Kvjx cÖmbœ `vm, gy¨I‡ii bxwZZË¡, XvKv: evsjv GKv‡Wgx, 1999| Searle, J.R., Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1969. Foot, P. (ed.), Theories of Ethics, London: Oxford University Stevenson, C.L., Ethics and Language, New Haven and Press, 1970. London: Yale University Press, 1964. Frankena, W.K., Ethics, 2nd ed., New Jersey: Englewood Cliffs, _____, Facts and Values: Studies in Ethical Analysis, New 1973. Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1964. Hall, E.W., Our Knowledge of Fact and Value, Chapel Hill: Warnock, G.J., Contemporary Moral Philosophy, London: The University of North Carolina Press, 1961. Macmillan: Oxford University Press, 1966. Hancock, R.N., Twentieth Century Ethics, New York: Warnock, M., Ethics Since 1900, London: Oxford University Columbia University Press, 1974. Press, 1960. Hare, R.M., Freedom and Reason, London: Oxford University Iqvnve, †kL Ave`yj, wesk kZvãxi bxwZ`k©b, XvKv: evsjv GKv‡Wgx, 1986| Press, 1963. Lvbg, ivwk`v AvLZvi, bxwZwe`¨v : ZË¡ I we‡k­ lY, RvZxq mvwnZ¨ cÖKvk, ______, The Language of Morals, Oxford: Clarendon Press, XvKv: 2011| 1952. fyuBqv, Av‡bvqvi“j vn, mgKvjxb bxwZwe`¨v, Aemi, XvKv: 2006| ­ ______, Essays on the Moral Concepts, London: Macmillan nvwg`, Ave`yj, mgKvjxb bxwZwe`¨vi iƒc‡iLv, XvKv: PqwbKv, 1989| Press, 1972. Hill, T.E., Contemporary Ethical Theories, New York: The Course 519: Business Ethics Macmillan, 1950. Course Content

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An overview of ethics related to business; Personal morality, Velasquez, Manuel G. Business Ethics: Concepts and Cases, professional morality and common morality; Business ethics as New Delhi: Prentice-Hall, 2006. an interdisciplinary area of study; Different positions regarding Weiss, Joseph W. Business Ethics: A Stakeholder and Issues the relation between business and ethics; Moral versus non- Management Approach, 6th ed., Mason, OH: South- moral standard; Rights of employees; Rights of employers; Western College Pub, 2008. Rights of consumers; Free markets, rights and justice; Trade secrets and conflict of interest; Whistle blowing; Marketing, Course 520: Practical Ethics advertising and product safety; Professions and Course Description professionalism; Job discrimination and affirmative action; Leadership and strategy; Corporate social responsibility; This course seeks to provide the students with a comprehensive Corporate citizenship; Corporate governance; Corporate knowledge of the most pressing practical ethical questions responsibility and the environment; Impediments to which comprise abortion, euthanasia, animal rights, genetic responsibility; Globalization; Ethics and international business. testing, climate change, cloning, civil disobedience, terrorism and the like. It is a text-based course focusing on the practical Books Recommended and living moral issues. The required text is Peter Singer’s Barry, Vincent. Moral Issues in Business, 3rd ed., Belmont, Practical Ethics. CA: Wadsworth, 1986. Text: Peter Singer, Practical Ethics, 3rd ed., Cambridge: evsjv Abyev`: cÖ`xc Boatright, John R. Ethics and the Conduct of Business, 4th ed., Cambridge University Press, 2011. Kzgvi ivq, e¨envwiK bxwZwe`¨v, (3q ms¯‹iY) XvKv: Aemi, New York: Pearson, 2005. 2012| Crane, Andrew. Business Ethics, 3rd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Books Recommended rd DesJardins, Joseph. An Introduction to Business Ethics, 3 ed., Almond, B. (ed.), Introducing Applied Ethics, Oxford and Columbus, OH: McGraw-Hill, 2008. Cambridge: Blackwell, 1995. Ferrell, O.C., et al Business Ethics: Ethical Decision Making th Begum, Hasna, Ethics in Social Practice, Dhaka: Academic and Cases, 7 ed., Mason, OH: South-Western College Press, 2001. Pub., 2006. Donaldson, T., Issues in Moral Philosophy, New York: Hartman, L.P. and J. R. DesJardins. Business Ethics: Decision- McGraw-Hill, 1968. Making for Personal Integrity and Social Responsibility, Columbus, OH: McGraw –Hill Higher Education, 2007 Elliot, R. (ed.), Environmental Ethics, Oxford: Oxford th University Press, 1995. Shaw, William H. Business Ethics 6 ed., Belmont, CA: nd Wadsworth, 2007. Feinberg, J. (ed.), The Problem of Abortion, 2 ed., Belmont: Wadsworth, 1964.

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Lafolletle, H., Ethics in Practice, Cambridge: Blackwell, 1997. Course Content Luper, S., C. Brown, and S. Luper-Foy (eds.), The Moral Life, 1. Critical thinking in medicine and its ethics – the role of USA: Harcourt Brace Javenovich College Publisher, 1992. ethics in medical practice – the negligence of critical thinking Mappes, T.A. & J.S. Zembaty, Social Ethics, Morality and in medical practice – inattention to ethical and humanistic Social Policy, 3rd ed. New York: McGraw-Hill,1987. career – elements of moral reasoning in medical encounter. Singer, P. (ed.), Applied Ethics, Oxford: Oxford University 2. Four principles of medical ethics – nonmaleficence, Press, 1988. beneficence, autonomy, and justice; – evaluation of the factual _____, A Companion to Ethics, Oxford: Blackwell, 1994. claims and judgments in treatment – moral issues and conflicts Sterba, J.P. (ed.), Morality in Practice, 3rd ed., Belmont: – utilitarianism vs. deontological approach. Wadsworth, 1991. Taylor, P.W., Principles of Ethics, California: Wadsworth, 3. Patients’ right to privacy – facts about one’s body and self 1975. – the confidentiality of patient’s facts – privacy rights vs. property rights – privacy and human relationship – me and Thiroux, J.P. and Keith W. Krasemann, Ethics: Theory and nd others – private selves and private language argument – self Practice, 2 ed., California: Glencse Publishing 1980. and person – patient’s confidentiality and physician’s Winklar, E.R., and J.R. Coombs (ed.), Applied Ethics: A responsibility – philosophical justification of medical Reader, Cambridge, USA: Blackwell, 1993. confidentiality. Bmjvg, Avwgbyj, RMr Rxeb `k©b, XvKv: gvIjv eªv`vm©, 2011| Lvb, Mvwje Avnmvb, Av`k© iv‡óªi cwi‡cÖw¶Z I m¤¢vebvi evsjv‡`k, XvKv: RvZxq 4. Health and disease – definition of health – the pursuit of mvwnZ¨ cÖKvk, 2012| health – defining illness – distinction between disease and Lvbg, ivwk`v AvLZvi, bxwZwe`¨v: ZË¡ I we‡k¬lY, XvKv: RvZxq mvwnZ¨ cÖKvk, illness – mental health and social responsibility. 2011| 5. Marketing bodily parts – demand for bodily organ – _____, cwi‡ek bxwZwe`¨v, XvKv: RvZxq mvwnZ¨ cÖKvk, 2009| Kantian view of duties to the self – mind-body problem – Lv‡jK, G.Gm.Gg. Ave`yj, cÖv‡qvwMK bxwZwe`¨v, XvKv: Abb¨v, 2003| selling the organs – Ram Harre’s alternative arguments – `vm, KvjxcÖmbœ, cwi‡ek `k©b : gvbe‡Kw›`ªKZvev` I cwi‡cvlK Dbœqb, XvKv: individual and collective ownership. evsjv GKv‡Wwg, 2014| 6. Defining death – philosophical arguments for the conception of death – relation between death and property – the indetermination and determination of death – life-support and life-saving treatment – death-behaviour – the moment of death 521: Medical Ethics : discovered or decided ; – brain death – medical policy.

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7. The allocation of medical resources – scarcity of resources Lim, Arthur SM, An Introduction to Medical Ethics: Patient’s – two problems : economic and ethical – macro-allocation and Interest First, 2nd ed. Singapore, USA, UK: World Scientific micro-allocation -- Scarce Live-Saving Medical Resources Publishing Co. Ltd., 2008. (SLMR) – medical criteria for selection – social justice – equal Parker, M. and Dickenson, D., The Cambridge Medical Ethics access to health – social group’s collective interest – common Workbook, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. good of distinct individuals – health-care system – equality and rights in medical care – exotic medical life-saving therapy – the Rhodes, Rosemond, Francis, Leslie P. and Silvers, Anita (eds.) values of random selection. The Blackwell Guide to Medical Ethics, USA, UK: Blackwell Publishing, 2007. 8. Human experimentation – therapeutic and non-therapeutic Roleff, Tamara L. (ed.), Biomedical Ethics: Opposing experimentation – philosophical reflections on human Viewpoints, USA: Green Haven Press, Inc. 1998. experimentation – modern design of human experimentation – Sugerman, J. and Sulmasy, D. (eds.) Methods in Medical ethical design of human experimentation – problem of Ethics, Georgetown University Press, 2010. informed consent – ethics of consent – experimentation with nd children and fetuses – legal consideration – moral justification. Veatch, Robert M. (ed.), Medical Ethics, 2 ed., UK, MA: Jones & Barlett Publishers, 1989. 9. Genetics and reproductive technologies – genetic testing World Medical Association (WMA), Medical Ethics Manual, and screening – in vitro fertilization, cloning, and genetic 2nd ed., UK: World Health Communication Associates, intervention; – the meaning and significance of genetic disease 2009. – ethical issues in screening for genetic disease -- the ethics of genetic control – difficulties of genetic engineering. Course 522: Administrative Ethics Books Recommended Course Content Althanassoulis, Nafsika (ed.) Philosophical Reflection on Nature and necessity of ethics in human life. Two basic types Medical Ethics, UK & New York: Palgrave Macmillan, of ethics, viz., teleological ethics and deontological ethics. 2010. Administrative ethics—nature and necessity. Beauchamp, T.L. and Childress, J.F., Principles of Biomedical Organizational structure, social values and individual ethics. th Ethics, 7 ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Ethics management and public organizations: what, why and Hanson, Stephen S., Moral Acquaintances and Moral how? Decisions, London, New York: Springer, 2009. Administrative ethics and professionalism. Harris, John, The Value of Life: An Introduction to Medical Public ethics, administration and policy. Ethics, 2nd ed., London and New York: Routledge, 2001. Governmental ethics and organizational culture.

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Military ethics. Course 523: Buddhist Philosophy Administrative ethics in China. Course Content Administrative ethics in African society: the case of The course aims at giving the students deep knowledge of Zimbabwe. Buddhist philosophy with special reference to the following A comparative study of administrative ethics in Canada, topics: France, UK and USA. Schools of Buddhism; Buddhism and other schools of Indian A review lecture on the whole course content. philosophy. Books Recommended Buddha's philosophy of suffering and the philosophy of Bowman, J.S. and D.C. Menzel, Teaching Ethics and Values in suffering in the East and in the West; Buddha's doctrine of not- Public Administration Programs, Albany: State University self from the Western perspective; A comparative study of the of New York, 1998. doctrine of Nirvana, on the one hand, and Moksa, Fana, Najat and Salvation, on the other. Brown, J. and M. Collins, (eds.), Military Ethics and Professionalism, Washington, DC: National Defence Buddhist doctrine of causation with reference to Hume and University Press, 1981. others Chapman, A.A., (ed.), Ethics in Public Service, Edinburgh: Buddhist logic, epistemology and theory of truth Edinburgh University Press, 1993. The Sarvastivadin, the Vaibhasika and the Sautrantika realism; Cooper, T.L. (ed.), Handbook of Administrative Ethics, New Yogacara dualism and its refutation by Sankara: a comparison York: Marcel Dekker Inc., 2001. with Russell and Moore's critique of idealism; Madhyamika Fredrickson, H.G., (ed.), Ethics and Public Administration, dialectic with reference to Advaita and Western dialectics; Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1993. Madhyamika Sunyavada and the Western concept of relativity French, P.A., Ethics in Government, NJ, Englewood Cliffs: Buddhism and the perspective of logical positivism, Prentice-Hall, 1983. Existentialism and Pragmatism. Mertins, H., (ed.), Professional Standards and Ethics: A Buddhism and the Western critics. Workbook for Public Administration, Washington DC: American Society for Public Administration, 1979. Books Recommended Chakma, N.K., Buddhism in Bangladesh and Other Papers, Dhaka: Abosar Prakashani, 2007. Group C Chatterjee, A.K., The Yogacara Idealism, Delhi: Motilal Banarasidas, 1988.

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Dev, G.C., Buddha: The Humanist, Dacca: Paramount Mayavada; Madyamika Sunyavada, Jaina Syadvada and Publishers, 1969. Einstein's theory of relativity. Ghose, R.N., Dialectics of Nagarjuna, Allahabad: Vohar Theory of causation. Theory of self. Vedantic view of the Publisher, 1987. world; a comparative study of Gaudapada, Sankara, Ramanuja, Islam, A.N., Self, Suffering and Salvation, With Special Nimbarka, Madhva and Vallabha. Vedantic view of the Reference to Buddhism and Islam, Allahabad: Vohra Absolute and a comparative study of Sankara's Brahmavada Publishers, 1987. and the idealism of Hegel, Green and Bradley. Quasem, M.A., Salvation of the Soul and Islamic Devotions, Sankara's refutation of Yogacara idealism and a comparative London: Kegan Paul International, 1983. study of Sankara, G.E. Moore and Bertrand Russell on the Radhakrishnan, S., Indian Philosophy, 2 Vols. Delhi: Oxford refutation of idealism. University Press, 1997. Theory of knowledge, truth and error. Dialectics of Sankara Stcherbakshy, T., The Conception of Buddhist Nirvana, New and a comparative study of the dialectics of Nagarjuna, Delhi: Motilal Banarsidas, 1977. Sankara, Kant and Bradley. Varma, V.P., Early Buddhism and its Origin, India: Vedantic theory of liberation and a comparative study of Munshiram Mohoharled Publication, 1973. Moksa, Nirvana, Fana and Salvation. PvKgv, bxiyKzgvi, ey×, Zvui ag© I `k©b, XvKv : Aemi cÖKvkbx, 2007| Vedanta in the light of different religions of the world. The eoqv,– w`jxc Kzgvi, I mygb Kvwš— eoqv,– KxwZ©gvb †eŠ× mvwnwZ¨K I `vk©wbK, place of Vendanta for the modern man. XvKv: cvwj GÛ eyw×÷ ÷vwWR wefvM, XvKv wek¦we`¨vjq, 2008| Books Recommended ingvb, Gg. gwZDi ingvb (m¤úv.), †eŠ×`k©b : ZË¡ I hyw³, 1g LÊ, XvKv: RvZxq mvwnZ¨ cÖKvk, 2013| Beidler W., The Vision of Self in Early Vedanta, Delhi: Motilal Banarsidaas, 1975. ingvb, Gg. gwZDi ingvb (m¤úv.), †eŠ×`k©b : ZË¡ I hyw³, 2q LÊ, XvKv: RvZxq mvwnZ¨ cÖKvk, 2013| Chari, S.M., Srinivasa, Advaita and Visistatadvaita : A Study on Vadanta Deshika’s Satadusani, 2nd ed., Delhi: Motilal Banarsidas, 1976. Course 524: Vedanta Philosophy Das, R., An Introduction to Sankara, Calcutta: Sanskrita Course Content Sahitya Bhandar, 1968. Students are required to acquire a deep knowledge of Vedanta Datta, D.M., The Six Ways of Knowing: A Critical Study of the Philosophy with special reference to the following topics: Advaita Theory of Knowledge, Calcutta, 1972. Origin, development and different schools of Vedanta. Dev. G.C., Idealism and Progress, Calcutta, 1952. evsjv Abyev`, Doctrine of Maya and the origin and nature of Vedantic †nvm‡b Aviv Avjg, fveev` I cÖMwZ, XvKv: evsjv GKv‡Wgx, 1993|

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Islam, K.N., A Critique of Sankara's Philosophy of Datta, Dhirendra Mohan, The Chief Currents of Contemporary Appearance, Allahabad: Vohra Publishers, 1988. Philosophy, Calcutta: Calcutta University Press, 1970. Radhakrishnan, S., Indian Philosophy, 2 Vols., New York: Mahadevan, T.M.P. and G.V. Saroj, Contemporary Indian Macmillan, 1962. Philosophy, New Delhi: Sterling Publication, 1985. Sharma, B.N.K., Philosophy of Sri Madhvacarya, Delhi: Muirhead, J.H. and S. Radhakrishnan, (eds.), Contemporary Motilal Banarsidas, 1962. Indian Philosophy, London: Allen and Unwin, 1958. ingvb, Gg. gwZDi, fviZxq `k©b I ms¯‹…wZ, 2q ms¯‹iY, XvKv: RvZxq mvwnZ¨ Radhakrishnan, S., Eastern Religions and Western Thought, cÖKvk, 2012| Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1997. kv¯¿x, Avï‡Zvl fÆvPvh,© †e`vš— `k©b : A‰ØZev`, `yB LÊ, KwjKvZv, 1942| Schilpp, P.A., The Philosophy of Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, New York, 1952. Course 525: Contemporary Indian Thought Tagore, R., Personality, London: Macmillan, 1918. Course Description _____, Lectures and Address, London: Macmillan, 1962. This course is intended to give students a general knowledge of _____, Sadhana, Calcutta: Macmillan, 1919. the contemporary philosophical development in India. The Vivekananda, S., Complete Works, 8th ed. Calcutta: Haraf topics will include: the nature of reality, the concept of the self, Prakashoni, 1955. theory of knowledge, the concept of liberation, philosophy of Wolpert, Stanley A., Tilak and Gokhale: Revolution and religion, social philosophy, political philosophy, philosophy of Reform in the Making of Modern India, Berkeley: education, moral philosophy and philosophy of life. University of California Press, 1962. Course Content ingvb, Gg. gwZDi, evOvwji `k©b : eªvþ fveaviv, 3 LÊ, XvKv: GwkqvwUK †mvmvBwU Ae evsjv‡`k, 2012| Special emphasis will be given on the following thinkers: Balgangadhar Tilak, , Mahatma Gandhi, m`vZ¥vb›`, ¯^vgx I ¯^vgx cÖÁvbvb›` (m¤úvw`Z), ¯^vgx we‡eKvb›` ¯§viK MÖš’, Aurobindo Ghose, K.C. Bhattacaryya and Sarvepalli KwjKvZv: kªxivgK…ò †e`vš— gV, 1964| Radhakrishnan, Rabindranath Tagore, Sitanath Datta Tattvabhusan, Shivanth Shastri, Bipinchandra Pal. Books Recommended Arapura, J.G., Radhakrishnan and Integral Experience, Bombay: Asia Publish House, 1966. Aurobindo, Sri, The Life Divine, New York: Pandichari, 1949. Das, Chandra Mohan, The Philosophy of Rabindranath Tagore, New Delhi: Deep & Deep Publications, 1996.