COURSES OF STUDIES

P.G. Department ofPHILOSOPHY

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Proposed Structure of Choice-BasedCredit Semester System forP.G. Course in Philosophy

Syllabus approved by Board of Studies,Academic Council and Governing Body of

Udaya Nath Autonomous College ofScience & Technology, Prachi Jnanapitha,

Adaspur, Cuttack.

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STRUCTURE OF CHOICE-BASED CREDITSEMESTER SYSTEM FOR P.G. COURSE IN

PHILOSOPHY

FIRST SEMESTERHARD CORE

PAPER – IINDIAN EPISTEMOLOGY

Full Marks : 100 Credit Point : 5

Term End Sem : 70Mid Sem : 30

Unit – I

Pramanas : Pratyaksa, Anumana and Anupalabdhi

Unit – II

Upamanu, Arthapatti and Sabda

Unit – III

Pramanyavada : Pramanya – Svatah and paratah, apramanya-Svatah and Paratah.

Unit – IV

Khyativadas (doctrines of error)

Basic Study Materials :

1. D. M. Datta, The Six Ways of Knowing

2. S.C. Chatterji, The Nyaya Theory of Knowledge

3. C.D. Sharma, A Critical Survey of Indian Philosophy

4. Jwala Prasad, History of Indian Epistemology

5. Swami Satprakashananda, Methods of Knowledge

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PAPER – IIINDIAN METAPHYSICS

Full Marks : 100 Credit Point : 5

Term End Sem : 70Mid Sem : 30

Unit – I

The Concept of Reality in the Upanisads. Jainism and Buddhism

Unit – II

The concept of Reality in Samkhya. Vaisesika and Vedanta(Samkara and Ramanuja)

Unit – III

The Doctrines of Causality and Evolution : satkaryavada,asatkaryavada and satkaranavada : parinamavada and vivartavada

Unit – IV

The Concept of a Person : Body, Mind and Self; Action, Freedomand Responsibility.

Basic Study Materials :

1. S. Radhakrishna, The Principal Upanisads

2. S. Radhakrishnan, Indian Philosophy, Vol. I & II

3. S. N. Dasgupta, History of Indian Philosophy, Vol. I & II.

4. T.R.V.Murti, Central Philosophy of Buddhism

5. P. T. Raju, Spirit, Being and Self

6. Mahesh Chandra Bhartiya, Causation in Indian Philosophy

7. Sarbani Ganguli, A Critique of Causality

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PAPER – IIIINDIAN ETHICS

Full Marks : 100 Credit Point : 5

Term End Sem : 70Mid Sem : 30

Unit – I

Purusarthas

Unit – II

Svadharma, Paradharma, Varnasrama Dharma and NiskamaKarma

Unit – III

Ethics of Jainism, Buddhism and Samkhya- Yoga

Unit – IV

Gandhian Ethics

Basic Study Materials :

1. S. K. Maitra, Ethics of the Hindus

2. M. Hiriyanna, The India Conception of Values

3. Surama Dasgupta, Development of Moral Philosophy in India

4. I. C. Sharma, Ethical Philosophy of India

5. Rajendra Prasad, Varnadharma, Niskamakarma and PracticalMorality.

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PAPER – IVPOST-KANTIAN AND CONTEMPORARY

PHILOSOPHYFull Marks : 100 Credit Point : 5

Term End Sem : 70Mid Sem : 30

Unit – I

Hegel and Bradley

Unit – II

Pragmatism and Logical Positivism

Unit – III

Existentialism and Phenomenology

Unit – IV

Post-modernism : Derrida and Foucault

Basic Study Materials :

1. C. E. M. Joad, Introduction to Modern Philosophy

2. D. M. Datta, Chief Currents of Contemporary Philosophy

3. W.T. Stace, Philosophy of Hegel

4. Peter Singer, Hegel : A Very Short Introduction

5. F. H. Bradley, Appearance and Reality

6. Richard Wollheim, Bradley

7. William James, Pragmatism

8. (Ed.) A. J. Ayer, Logical Positivism

9. A. J. Ayer, Language, Truth and Logic

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10. Jean-Paul Satre, Existentialism and Humanism

11. Edmund Husserl, Phenomenology and the Crisis of Philosophy,(Tr.) Quentin Lauer.

12. Martin Buber, I and Thou

13. Robert Solomon, From Rationalism to Existentialism

14. Dermot Moran, An Introduction to Phenomenology

15. M. K. Bhadra, A Critical Survey of Phenomenology andExistentialism

16. Quentin Lauer, Phenomenology : Its Genesis and Project

17. J. N. Mohanty, The Concept of Intentionality

18. Roy Boyney, Foucault and Derrida

19. Francois Cusset, French Theory : How Foucault, Derrida andDeleuze & Co. Transformed the Intellectual Life of the UnitedStates.

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PAPER – VSYMBOLIC LOGIC & CRTICAL THINKING

Full Marks : 100 Credit Point : 5

Term End Sem : 70Mid Sem : 30

Unit – I

Sentential Theory of Inference, Symbolising Everyday Language

Unit – II

General Theory of Inference and further rules of inference.

Unit – III

Elementary intuitive set theory : Relations and Functions.

Unit – IV

Logical Appraisal (Chapter – 1)

Books Prescribed

1. Patrick Suppes; Introduction to Logic (Chapter 2, 3, 4, 9, 10 & 11)

2. P. F. Strawson; Introduction to Logical theory (Chapter 1)

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SECOND SEMESTER

HARD CORE

PAPER – VIWESTERN EPISTEMOLOGY

Full Marks : 100 Credit Point : 5

Term End Sem : 70Mid Sem : 30

Unit – I

Problems of knowledge : Plato-Knowledge, Belief and Opinion;A . J. Ayer- Scepticism; Gettier- ‘‘Is Justified True BeliefKnowledge ?’’

Unit – II

Conceptions of Truth : Correspondence, Coherence and Semantic

Unit – III

Problems Concerning Perceptual Knowledge and ProblemsConcerning Memory.

Unit – IV

Naturalised Epistemology; Quine

Basic Study Materials :

1. A. D. Woozley, Theory of Knowledge

2. Noah Lemos, An Introduction to the Theory of Knowledge

3. R. M. Chisolm, Theory of Knowledge

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4. D.M. Armstrong, Belief, Truth and Knowledge

5. A. J. Ayer, The Problem of Knowledge

6. A.C.Danto, Analytical Philosophy of Knowledge

7. Paul Newall, An Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology

8. Jonathan Dancy, An Introduction to Contemporary Epistemology

9. Edmund Gettier, ‘‘Is justified True Belief Knowledge ?’’Analysis. Vol. 23, No.6 (available online)

10. W. V. O. Quine, Theories and Things

11. W.V.O. Quine, From Stimulus to Science

12. Richard Feldman, Naturalised Epistemology

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PAPER – VIIWESTERN METAPHYSICS

Full Marks : 100 Credit Point : 5

Term End Sem : 70Mid Sem : 30

Unit – IThe Conceptions of Reality : Monism, Dualism and Pluralism

Unit – IIProblem of Substance and Problem of Universals

Unit – IIIProblems of Space and Time

Unit – IVProblems Concerning Body and Mind Relation

Basic Study Materials :1. D. W. Hamlyn, Metaphysics2. Richard Taylor, Metaphysics3. G.W.Patrick, An Introduction of Philosophy4. G.T.W. Cunningham, Problems of Philosophy5. (Ed.) David Halis, Metaphysics : Contemporary Readings6. C. Dennet and Hofstades, Mind's I7. David Chalmers, Self and Its Brain8. Gilbert Ryle, The Concept of Mind9. John Hospers, An Introduction to Philosophical Analysis

10. (Ed.) John Hospers, Readings in Introductory PhilosophicalAnalysis

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PAPER – VIIIWESTERN ETHICS

Full Marks : 100 Credit Point : 5

Term End Sem : 70Mid Sem : 30

Unit – IEthical Theories : Consequentialism and Teleological Theories.

Unit – IIEthical Theories : Deontology and Virtue Ethics

Unit – IIIMetaethical Theories : Cognitivism and Non-Cognitivism

Unit – IVMetaethical Theories : Universalism, Relativism and Nihilism

Basic Study Materials :1. Shelly Kegan, Normative Ethics2. William K. Frankena, Ethics3. L.M. Hinman, Ethics : A pluralistic approach to Moral Theory4. Samuel Scheffler, Consequentialism and Its Critics5. R. M. Hare, Language of Morals6. J. J. Mittler, Relativity Theory of Ethics7. A. J. Ayer, ‘‘A Critique of Ethics’’, in Language, Truth and Logic8. Frank Jackson, From Metaphysics to Ethics.

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PAPER – IXLANGUSTIC AND CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS

Full Marks : 100 Credit Point : 5

Term End Sem : 70Mid Sem : 30

Unit – I

G. Frege : ‘‘On Sense and Reference’’. G.E.Moore : ‘‘A Defenceof Common Sense’’.

Unit – II

B. Russell : ‘‘On Descriptions’’, P.F. Strawson : ‘‘On Referring’’and B. Russell : ‘‘A Reply to Strawson’’.

Unit – III

A. J. Ayer : ‘‘The Nature of Philosophical Analysis’’, W.V.O.Quine : ‘‘Two Dogmas of Empiricism’’. H.P.Grice &P.F.Strawson : ‘‘In defence of a Dogma’’.

Unit – IV

G. Ryle : ‘‘Philosophical Arguments’’, John Wisdom :‘‘Philosophy and Psycho-analysis’’ J.L.Austin : A Plea forExcuses.

Basic Study Materials :

1. John Passmore : A Hundred Years of Philosophy

2. Ayer and others, The Revolution in Philosophy

3. G. Frege, ‘‘On Sense and Reference’’, Text available in Wikipedia

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4. Richard Heck & Robert May, Frege's Contribution to Philosophyof Language

5. (Ed.) Robert R. Ammerman, Classics of Analytic Philosophy

6. (Ed.) P. K. Mohapatra and S.C. Panigrahi, Perspective in AnalyticPhilosophy

7. A. J. Ayer, Twentieth Century Philosophy

8. (Ed.) Kennick and Lazerowitz, Metaphysics (For the prescribedarticle of G. Ryle)

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PAPER – XCOMPARATIVE RELAGION

Full Marks : 100 Credit Point : 5

Term End Sem : 70Mid Sem : 30

Unit – INature, Scope and Method of Study of Comparative Religion.

Unit – IIBasic tenets of Eastern Religions : Hinduism (Sanatana Dharma),Jainism, Buddhism and Sikhism.

Unit – IIIBasic tenets of Western Religions : Christian, Islam andZoroastrianism

Unit – IVUnity of religions, Inter-religious dialogue, Secularism,Proselytisation

Basic Study Materials :1. Y. Masih, A Comparative Study of Religions2. John Westerdale Bowker, World Religions : The Great Faiths

Explored and Explained3. Huston Smith, The World's Religions4. Daniel L Pals, Eight Theories of Religion5. Robert A. Segal, The Blackwell Companion to the Study of

Religion.

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THIRD SEMESTERALLIED ELECTIVES PAPER - I

PAPER – IINDIAN VALUE SYSTEM

Full Marks : 100 Credit Point : 5Term End Sem : 70

Mid Sem : 30

Unit – I

Purusarthas : dharma (different meanings of ‘dharma’, ‘dharma’and religion, Jiva dharma and manava dharma, svadharma andvarnasrama dharma)

Unit – II

Purusarthas : artha (economic value and spiritual value) and kama(Psychological and axiological senses)

Unit – III

Purusarthas : moksa (different margas – jnana, karma and bhakti)

Unit – IV

Sreya and preya; vidya and avidya; karma, akarma and vikarma;abhyudaya and nihsreyasah

Basic Study Materials :

1. Swami Ranganathananda, The Eternal Values of a ChangingSociety, Vol. I.

2. S. Radhakrishnan (Ed.), The Principal Upanisads (Introduction)

3. (Ed.) P. K. Mohapatra, Purusarthas

4. S.C. Panigrahi, Issues in Indian Ethics

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THIRD SEMESTERALLIED ELECTIVES PAPER - II

PAPER – IIAPPLIED ETHICS

Full Marks : 100 Credit Point : 5Term End Sem : 70

Mid Sem : 30

Unit – I

Environmental Ethics

Unit – II

Business Ethics

Unit – III

Biomedical Ethics

Unit – IV

Media Ethics

Basic Study Materials :

1. Peter Singer, Practical Ethics

2. J. Jagadeb, Biomedical Ethics

3. Patrick Lee Plaisanca, Media Ethics : Key Principles forResponsible Practice.

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THIRD SEMESTERFREE ELECTIVES PAPER - I

PAPER – IIIA STUDENT CAN CHOOSE ANY TWO OUT OF THE

FOLLOWING FOUR PAPERSPAPER -1 : PHILOSOPHY OF THE UPANISADS :TEXTUAL STUDY OF THE KATHA UPANISAD ANDTHE KENA UPANISAD WITH THE COMMENTARY OFSAMKARACARYAFull Marks : 100 Credit Point : 5

Term End Sem : 70Mid Sem : 30

Unit – I

The Kena Upanisad : Sections 1 and 2

Unit – II

The Kena Upanisad : Sections 3 and 4

Unit – III

The Katha Upanisad : Chapter 1, Sections 1 and 2

Unit – IV

The Katha Upanisad : Chapter 1, Sections 3 and 4

Basic Study Materials :

1. Swami Gambhirananda, Eight Upanisads, Vol. 1

2. R. D. Ranade, A Constructive Survey of Upanisadic Philosophy

3. S. Radhakrishnan, The Principal Upanisads

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THIRD SEMESTERPAPER – IV

FREE ELECTIVES PAPER - IIPHILOSOPHY OF WITTGENSTEIN

Full Marks : 100 Credit Point : 5Term End Sem : 70

Mid Sem : 30

Unit – INature of the world, Nature of language

Unit – IINature of Philosophy, Nature of other modes of thought – Logic,Mathematics, Science, Ethics and Religion

Unit – IIIRejection of Essentialism. Diverse functions of Language

Unit – IVNature and Source of Philosophical Problems, Mind andLanguage

Basic Study Materials :1. Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, (Tr.) D.

F. Pears and B.F. Mc Guiness2. Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, (Tr.) G.E.M.

Anscombe3. Ludwig Wittgenstein, Note Books4. Ludwig Wittgenstein, The Blue and Brown Books5. D.F. Pears, Wittgenstein6. Anthony Kenny, Wittgenstein7. George Pitcher, Philosophy of Wittgenstein8. Max Black, A Companion to Wittgenstein's Tractatus

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THIRD SEMESTERPAPER – V

FREE ELECTIVES PAPER - IIIPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

Full Marks : 100 Credit Point : 5Term End Sem : 70

Mid Sem : 30

Unit – I

Ancient Political Thought : Plato, Aristotle and Machiavelli

Unit – II

Modern Political Thought : Theories of social contract (Hobbes,Locke and Rousseau). Socio-economic revolution (Hegel, Marxand Lenin)

Unit – III

Indian Political Thought : Political Philosophy in theMahabharata, Political Philosophy in the Arthasastra of Kautilya.

Unit – IV

Philosophical Analysis of Political Concepts : ‘‘Authority’’,‘‘Two Concepts of Liberty’’ by Isiah Berlin from (Ed.) AnthonyQuinton, Political Philosophy.

Basic Study Materials :

1. G. Sabine, History of Political Theory

2. C. I. Wayper, Political Thought

3. E. Barber, Plato and His Predecessors

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FOURTH SEMESTERPAPER – I

FREE ELECTIVES PAPER - IVMAJOR TRENDS IN ODISHAN PHILOSOPHY

Full Marks : 100 Credit Point : 5Term End Sem : 70

Mid Sem : 30

Unit – I

Concept of reality and moral perspective of Mahima Philosophy

Unit – II

Pandit Nilakantha Das on Odishan Culture

Unit – III

Sri Jagannath : Tradition, Culture and Philosophy

Unit – IV

Vaisnavism in Odisha

Basic Study Materials :

1. Pt. Nilakantha Das, Bhagavadgita, Pithika (Introduction)

2. M. N. Das (ed.), History and Culture of Orissa (Chapter, 30, 31and 37)

3. Bhima Bhoi, Stutichintamani

4. S.C. Panigrahi, Bhima Bhoi and Mahima Darsana

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FOURTH SEMESTERPAPER – II

ALLIED ELECTIVES PAPER -IIICRITICAL THINKING

Full Marks : 100 Credit Point : 5Term End Sem : 70

Mid Sem : 30

Unit – I

Word Meaning, Sentence Meaning, Definition, Vagueness andAmbiguity

Unit – II

Analytic truth, Logical Possibility, A Priori and a Posteriori

Unit – III

Argument : Different types, Impediments to good reasons

Unit – IV

Basic concepts of argument analysis : Well-formed arguments,Deductive soundness and strength, inductive soundness andstrength.

Basic Study Materials :

1. John Hospers : An Introduction to Philosophical Analysis

2. Richard Feldman : Reason and Argument

3. M. R. Cohen and E. Nagel, An Introduction to Logic and ScientificMethod.

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THIRD SEMESTERPAPER – III

Allied Electives PAPER -IVPHILOSOPHY OF COGNTTION

Full Marks : 100 Credit Point : 5Term End Sem : 70

Mid Sem : 30

Unit – I

Mind, body and soul (in India's Philosophies)

Unit – II

Mind and its place in nature (Western Philosophical views) :What is mind ? Mind's relationship with matter, ThePsychological and the Philosophical conceptions of mind.

Unit – III

Doctrine of Perception – Indian and Western

Unit – IV

Artificial intelligence – The Philosophical Problems

Basic Study Materials :

1. P. T. Raju, Spirit, Being and Self

2. A. C. Danto, Perception

3. M. Hiriyanna, Outlines of India Philosophy

4. C. D. Broad, Mind and its Place in Nature

5. J. Shaffer, Philosophy of Mind

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FREE ELECTIVES

PAPER – VA STUDENT CAN CHOOSE ANY TWO OUT OF THE

FOLLOWING FOUR PAPERSPAPER -1 : ADVAITA VEDANTA

Full Marks : 100 Credit Point : 5Term End Sem : 70

Mid Sem : 30Unit – I

AdhyasaUnit – II

Brahmasutra : Samkara Bhasya, Part I, Chapter I – Sutra 1 to 4Unit – III

Brahmasutra : Samkara Bhasya, Part II, Chapter I and IIUnit – IV

Advaita Conception of Philosophy : Its Method, Scope and Limitsby Ganeswar Misra, Chapters I and II

Basic Study Materials :1. Brahmasutra with Samkara's Commentary, English Translation

by George Thibaut2. Brahmasutra with Samkara's Commentary, English Translation

by Swami Gambhirananda3. Brahmasutra with Samkara's Commentary, Odia Translation by

Markanda Dash4. Ganeswar Misra, Advaita Conception of Philosophy : Its Method,

Scope and Limits.5. G. C. Nayak, Essays in Analytic Philosophy

6. G. P.Das, Vedantaparibhasa : An Analytical Study.

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FOURTH SEMESTERPAPER – IV

Free Electives PAPER – VIPHILOSOPHY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES

Full Marks : 100 Credit Point : 5Term End Sem : 70

Mid Sem : 30

Unit – I

What is Philosophy of Social Science : Philosophical Bearingof Social Science

Unit – II

Explanations of human action : Behaviourism, Functionalism,Holism and Rational Choice.

Unit – III

Social Studies as Science

Unit – IV

Mind, Language and Society

Basic Study Materials :

1. Peter Winch, The Idea of a Social Science and Its Relation toScience

2. Ian Craib and Tred Venton (ed.), Philosophy of Social Science

3. Alexander Rosenberg, Philosophy of Social Science.

4. Malcolm Williams, Science and Social Science : An Introduction

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FOURTH SEMESTERPAPER – V

Free Electives PAPER – VIIPHILOSOPHY OF SRI AUROBINDO

Full Marks : 100 Credit Point : 5Term End Sem : 70

Mid Sem : 30

Unit – I

Life Divine : ‘‘Mind and Supermind’’, ‘‘Supermind, Mind andthe Overmind Maya’’ (Chapters XVIII and XXVIII of Book I,‘‘The Ascent Towards Supermind’’ (Chapter XXVIII of Book II)

Unit – II

The Synthesis of Yoga : ‘‘The Conditions of the Synthesis’’(Chapter – ‘‘Introduction’’)

Unit – III

Essays on The Gita : Essays 1 to 7 of First Series

Unit – IV

‘‘A Rationalistic Critique on Indian Culture’’ (Chapter II of theFoundations of Indian Culture.

Basic Study Materials :

1. S. K. Maitra, An Introduction to Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo

2. Madhusudan Reddy, Sri Aurobindo's Philosophy of Evolution

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Free Elective PAPER – VIIIPHILOSOPHY OF NIRGUNA IN ODIA LITERATURE

Full Marks : 100 Credit Point : 5Term End Sem : 70

Mid Sem : 30

Unit – I

Balarama Dasa : Chatisa Gupta Gita of and translation of theBhagavadgita

Unit – II

Yasobanta Dasa : Gobinda Chandra, (ed.) K. C. Sahu

Unit – III

Achyutananda Dasa : Anakara Samhita

Unit – IV

Chaitanya Dasa : Nirguna Mahatmya

Basic Study Materials :

1. Surendra Mohanty, Odia Sahityara Itihasa

2. Chittaranjan Das, Glimpses on Odia Literature

3. Mayadhar Mansingh, History of Odia Literature

4. J. N. Monanty, History of Odia Literature

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