o-.. DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY & COMPARATIVE RELIGION VISVA-BHARATI SANTINIKETAN SYL|-ABUS FOR M.A. COURSE tN pHtrOSOpHy (2017) Semester Paper Code Title Sem-l MAPHILCPlOl Metaphysics (lndian) (lndian) o MAPHILCPlO2 Epistemology 6 MAPHILCPlO3 Logic (Western) o. E MAPHILCPlO4 Epistemology (Western) o U MAPHILCPlO5 Phenomenology MAPHILCP106 Western Analvtic Philosophv Sem-ll MAPHILCP2Ol Philosophy of Language (lndian) oL MAPHILCP202 Existentialism 2 MAPHILCP2O3 Eth-ics (Western) E MAPHILCP2O4 Textual Study: Critique of Pure Reoson o (J MAPHILCP2O5 Structu ralism and Post-Structuralism MAPHILCP2O6 Dissertation MAPHILOP3Ol Contemporary lndian Philosophy (A) tU Sem-lll o MAPHILOP3O2 Logic (lndian) F MAPHILOP3O3 Western Metaphysics (Part-l) tr MAPHILOP3O4 Cultural Philosophy: Culture as Contestation E MAPHILOP3O5 Philosophical lssues Concerning Life and Death (Unit-l) o MAPHILOP3O6 Political Philosophy - Popper's Poverty of Historicism o MAPHILOP3OT lslamic Philosophy o MAPHILOP3O8 Ethical Perspectives of Religions MAPHIl.SP3Ol Nyiya: Unit-l MAPHIl5P3O2 Vai6esika: Unit-l MAPHIl.SP3O3 Ved6nta: Unit-l oo, MAPHITSP3O4 Philosophy of Mind: Unit-l L MAPHILsP3O5 F Feminist Perspectives (Weste rn ) MAPHILsP306 Social and Political Philosophy: Theoretical Approaches (part-l) MAPHI[SP3O7 Advanced Logic (Part-l r! I MAPHILSP3O8 Philosophy of Language (Part-l) ol CL v1 MAPHILSP3O9 Navya- Nyiya (Vyaptipa nca ka with ivla thuri) MAPHILsP3lO Buddhist Ethics and Social Thinking MAPHILsP311 Buddhist Epistemology MAPHIIJP3l2 Applied Ethics (Western) Sem-lV MAPHILOP4O1 Contempolary o lndian Philosophy (B) (u MAPHILOP4O2 Ethics (lndian) F- MAPHILOP4O3 Western Metaphysics (Pa rt-ll) MAPHILOP4O4 Cultural Philosophy: ldentity and Multiculturalism E MAPHILOP4O5 Philosophical lssues Concerning Life and Death (Unit-ll) .9 MAPHILOP4O6 Contemporary Ethics (Amartya Sen) oCL MAPHILOP4OT Sufism MAPHILOP4O8 Counter Perspectives of Modern lndian Thinkers MAPHIIsP4Ol Nyaya: Unit-ll o o MAPHIlsP4O2 Vai6esika: Unit-ll s F MAPHItsP4O3 Vedanta: Unit-ll g MAPHIl.SP4O4 Philosophy of Mind: Unit-ll MAPHILSP4Os Feminist Perspectives (lndian) E o MAPHILSP4O6 Social and Political Philosophy: Theoretical Approaches (part-ll) OJ o- rrl MAPHILSPITOT Advanced Logic (Part-lt) MAPHILSP4O8 Philosophy of Language (Part-ll) 2 MAPHIl.sP4O9 Sankhya-Vedanta MAPHILSP4lO Buddhist Metaphysics MAPHI15P411 Buddhist Loeic MAPHILSP4l2 Philosophy of Science Note: There would be total twenty four Papers diviided into four semesters, each having four units. Each paper consists of 50 marks, out of which 1O marks (each paper) would be continuous evaluation. 3 Optional Papers and 3 Special Papers are to choosen from each concerned Semester. Svllabus: M.A Philosophv : Details of each Paper Semester-l Paper -MAPHILCP1O1 : Metaphysics (tndian) Topics: 1. Man, God and the world as the basic concept of metaphysics 2. Man: Self as dtman, Nairdtmyavodo, dtman ond Jtva, The jivo as kartd, bhoktd and Jfidta, Different Perspectives 3. The concept of kdlo (Buddhism, Nydya) 4. frvdtmd and poramdtmd 5. Satkdryavddo and asatkdryovdda: prakJti-Kdraqotovddo; Paramqnu-kdronatdvdda, Brohma- kdranatdvada 6. Four staBes of self: jdgrota, svopnq, su$upti and tur-rya 7. Paramdpuvddo Suggested Readings: L. Brahmqslfro ( selections) 2. Siddhdntoleda Sarhgraha ( selections) 3. Praiastapddabhdsyo 4. Vdtsyayanabhdsyo S. Sivaditya Mi6ra: Sapropaddrtht 5. Sadananda Bhaduri: Studies in Nydya-Vai!;e;ika Metophysics 7. J.N. Mohanty: Classical lndian philosophy 8. G. Bhattacharya: Essays in Analytic phitosophy 9. B.K. Matilal: Logic languoge and Reality Paper -MAPHILCP1O2 : Epistemology (tndian) Text: Ve d dnt opa ri bhd.sd (Selections) and Vdtsyd ya n a bho-sya (Selections) Paper - MAPHILCP1O3 : Logic (Western) Topics: 1. Quantification theory: Multiply general propositions, techniques of symbolization, quantificational rules, proof constructions, proofs of validity and invalidity, logical truths involving quantifiers 2. The logic of relations: symbolizing relations, arguments involving relations, attributes of relations, identity and definite descriptions 3. Tree method for testing validity of quantificational arguments Recommended Texts: 1,. l.M. Copi: Symbolic Logic,5th Ed., Chapter lV& Vfortopics 1&2 2. Richard Jeffrey: Formsl logic: lts Scope ond Limits,2nd Ed., for topic 3 and chapter 6 & 7 for topic 4 Suggested Readings: 1. E.J. Lemmon: Beginning Logic Ja Paper - MAPHILCP1O4 Epistemology (Western) Topics: 1. Skepticism and the possibility of propositional knowledge 2. Nature and definition of Propositional knowledge 3. Gettier's argument and the problem of fourth condition. 4. Justification of knowledge claims and epistemic decision: foundationalism, coherentism, causal theory, reliabilism. 5. Naturalized epistemology: for and against. 6' Attack on a priori and synthetic o priori knowledge: Ayer, Quine, Putnam, Benacerraf. Suggested Readings: Lehrer : Theory of Knowledge Chisolm : Theory of Knowledge 3rd Edn A J Ayer : Problems of Knowledge J L Pollock '. Contemporory Theories of Knowledge Barry Stroud: Philosophical Skepticism J Dancy : An lntroduction to Contemporory Epistemology Paper - MAPHI LCP105: Phenomenologry Topics: 1. The aim of Phenomenology : a radical method of investigation; a presuppositionless philosophy: a rigourous science; science of essence as distinguished from science of facts 2. Different stages of development of Husserl's Phenomenology, critique of psychologism, pure logic 3. Phenomenological method: Phenomenological Reduction and its stages; essence and essential intuition 4. Consciousness; lntentionality ; the structure of consciousness ( noesis and noema); functional analysis of consciousness; the transcendental ego 5. The problems of solipcism and intersubjectivity 6. Lifeworld Suggested Readings: 1. Herbert Spiegelberg: The phenomenological Movement 2' Barry Smith & David Woodruffsmith (eds.): The Combridge Componion to Husserl 3. Edmund Husserl: /deqs Paper - MAPHILCPIOG: Western Analytic philosophy Topics: 1' Analysis at work: G.E. Moore: 1l/hat is philosophy?', Some Main problems of philosophy, Collier Books, 1962, pp1-41 2' Analysis at work: G.Frege,'on Sense and Meaning'('Uber sinn und Bedeutung,), phitosophicat Writings of Gottlob Frege,3rd edn, Trns by Geach and Blaclg Basil Blackwell, oxford,19g0 3' Analysis at work: B. Russell: 'on Denoting', in R.C. Marsh (ed), Logic and Knowledge: Essays 7907- 195o ( Allen & Unwin,1956). I Russell's formulation of the puzzles and their solutions in terms of his theory of descriptions] ,On 4. Analysis at work: p.F. Strawson, Referring, 5' Analysis at work: Wittgenstein: Philosophical tnvestigations: Demolition of the Augustinian pictureoflanguage,Language-games,theusesofsentences[sections :--27(alof pl],andThe sources of Philosophical Problems, the nature of Philosophical Probleml Is analytic philosophy possible? [Sections 89 - 133 of p/ ] ,,Two 6. Analysis at work: W.V.O. euine: Dogmas of Empiricism,, 7' Analysis at work: Hilary Putnam: " Two dogmas' Revisited" in Ryle ledl Contemporory Aspects of Philosophy, D.Reidel, 1976, later included in Putnam, Realism qnd Reason: phitosophicot Papers, Vol 3, CUp, 19g3, pp g7 -97. Suggested Readings: L. Milton Munitz: Contemporory Analytic philosophy 2. P FStrawson: Anolysis & Metaphysics Semester-ll Paper - MAPHILCP2O1: Philosophy of Language ( lndian) Topics: 1. The Problem of Meaning: abhidhd, classes of words, imports of words, ok1ivoda-vyoktivodq, jativqdo -jatydkytivyaktivdda, jativiiigtavydktivddo, apohavodo, idbdabodha 2. Sphota: Patanjali, Bhart;"hari and others; arguments against sphoto 3. Conditions of knowing sentence meanning; akankgo, yogyato, sannidhi, totparyajfiana 4. Lak5an1o: nature and classification. Vyafijond, the theory of dhvoni 5. Mimarhsa Theory of bhdvana and its criticism by the vaiyakara7qs 6. The metaphysical basis of Language: Bhartrhari's theory of iqbdobrohman Texts : L. Bho5oparichhedo (Sabdakharlda) 2. Vdkyapadiya 3. Dhvanyaloko 4. Tottvosarhgroho with KamalaSila's Pafijika ( Apoha section) Paper - MAPHILCP202: Existentialism Topics: 1. Existentialism : Chief features; some recurring themes (existence preceeds essence; anxiety, freedom; authentic and inauthentic existence, and death); its distinctive characteristics 2. Kierkegaard : ldea of Philosophy , revolt against rationalism; notion of existence; truth as subjectivity; freedom and subjectivity; aesthetical, ethical and religious spheres 3. Sartre: The distinction between being-for-itself and being-in-itself, being-for-others consciousness as nothingness, freedom, bad faith, relations whh others, critique of Marxism Suggested Readings: 1. Mary Warnock: Existentiqlism 2. Jean paul Sartre: Being and Nothingness 3. D. F. Swenson : Kerkegaord's Concluding Unscientific Postscript, Princeton Univ Press, 1941 4. F. Copleston: Contemporary Philosophy: Studies of Logicol Positivism ond Existentiolism, London, Burns & Oates, 19G5 5. D. Cooper : Existentialism : A Reconstruction, Basil Blackwell, 1990 Paper - MAPHILCP203: Ethics ( Western) Texts: 1. JS Mill: Utilitorionism ( selections) 2. lmmanuel Kant: Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals ( selections) Paper - MAPHILCP204: Textual Study: Critique of purc Reason Text: lmmanuel Kant: critique of pure Reason, Tr. Norman Kempsmith (selections) References: 1. H.J. Paton: Kont's Metaphysic of Experience (Vot. t) 2. N. Kempsmith: A commentqry on Kant,s Critique of pure Reason 3. Rasvihary Das: A Handbook to Kant,s Critique of pure Reoson 4. S. Korner: Kont 5. J. N. Mohanty: Ledures