Department of Philosophy

Panigaon OPD College established in 1984. The Department of Philosophy   was established in 1986-87. Since then, this department offers higher secondary and degree as per the prescribed syllabus of AHSEC and Dibrugarh University respectively. A number of students have been offering philosophy as a major and core subject. The department organizes frequent workshop, seminar, webinar etc to inculcate spiritual and ethical values among the students
Vision and Mission:

The Department of Philosophy sets its vision to provide higher education to the students of Lakhimpur District with the aims:

      To impart holistic education to students

      To provide thinkers and Problem solvers

       Encouraging students to contribute to the development of the society

       Lifelong learners

              Founder faculties of the philosophy department:

       Late. Nijara Kakoti

       Late. Jiten Ch. Borah

       Mrs. Tulumoni Boruah

               Learning resources and teaching method of the department:

The department has its own library which is quite good in collection of books that are donated by the teachers of the department. Students and teachers normally used the departmental library and the central library which is quite rich in old and new books.

    Normally lecture method is used in the classroom for the benefit of the students. Digital classroom is used for comprehensive teaching. Home assignment, Group discussion, Seminar etc. are also arranged among the students. Teachers are available beyond class hours for academic interaction with students.

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
IMG_20240821_171501 - Madhurima Dowarah (1)
MRS MADHURIMA DOWARAH
M.A.M.Phil
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ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
IMG-20240822-WA0044 - Elahi Eraz Ahmed
DR. ROSEMIN AKHTARA
M.A, B.Ed, Ph.D, SLET
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PROGRAMME OUTCOME & COURSE OUTCOME:

 

It represents the knowledge, skills and attitudes the students should have at the end of a program:

1. Understand about the Indian and Western concept of philosophy.

2. Critically analyses the contemporary Indian and Western philosophy.

3. Comparison between Indian Logic and Modern and Classical Logic of Western.

4. Comparative study of different religions of the world.

5. Describe the importance and relevance of Indian and Western ethics.

6. Describe the physiological basis of the mental life.

SEMESTER - I :

 

C – 1 (INDIAN PHILOSOPHY)

1. Expect learning outcome – on completion of course, students will able to –

(i) Explain the concept of nature, scope and utility of Indian philosophy.

(ii) Explain the influence of growth and development in Indian Philosophy.

(iii) Describe the nature of common feature of Indian philosophical schools.

(iv) Describe about the four noble truth and doctrine of dependent origination.

(v) Explain the nature of knowledge Nyaya-Vaisesika and mimansa.

(vi) Describe the philosophical arguments of Ramaayas nature of Brahman and refutation of Maya.

C – 2 (LOGIC)

Expect learning outcome – on completion of course, students will able to –

Explain

v  Logical reasoning and testing of them in Aristotelian and modern symbolic logic.

v  Elaboration of nature of logic, nature of argument and argument form truth and validity etc.

v  Elaboration of categories syllogism figure and mood and also Ven diagram technique for testing validity of syllogism.

v  Elaboration of truth table method and validity of argument, direct and indirect method.

SEMESTER - I :

G.E. – I (INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY)

Expect learning outcome – on completion of course, students will able to –

Explain

v  Basic ideas of philosophy concerning theories and categories of knowledge and truth.

v  There are elaboration of definition, scope, nature and relevance philosophy and also relation of   philosophy and science.

v  There are elaboration of origin of knowledge – rationalism, empiricism and critical theory of Kant.

v  There are elaboration of object of knowledge realism and idealism.

v  In unit five there are elaboration of cateogories of knowledge and theories of truth – correspondent coherence and pragmatic theory.  

 

SEMESTER II:

C – 3  ANCIENT GREEK PHILOSOPHY

Expect learning outcome – on completion of course, students will able to –

Explain

This paper intends to acquaint students with the problems of epistemology and metaphysics of Greek philosophy.

This paper elaborate about pre-Socratic philosophy, natural thought, being and becoming and also elaboration of platonic ideas etc.

SEMESTER II:

C- 4  INDIAN LOGIC

v  Expect learning outcome – on completion of course, students will able to –

v  Explain

v  This paper attempts to acquaint students with the development of critical understanding of Indian logic.

v  This paper also wants to describe the nature and development of Indian logic and classification of knowledge given by Nyaya system.

SEMESTER - II 

G.E. – 2  (INDTRODUCTION TO LOGIC)

v  Expect learning outcome – on completion of course, students will able to –

v  This Paper attempts to make the students familiar with the basic ideas of Aristotelian logic and symbolic logic.

v  This paper also analyze about the nature and utility of understanding about the difference between word and terms and it explain about proposition on traditional and modern classification and symbolic logic and characteristics of symbolic logic and basic truth function.  

SEMSTER – III:

C – 5 (MODERN WESTERN PHILOSOPHY)

Expect learning outcome – on completion of course, students will able to –

Explain

v  The concept of modern western philosophy.

v  This paper attempts to introduce students with the problems of modern western philosophy and critical understanding.

v  This paper wants to describe and summarize about the theory of knowledge.

SEMSTER – III:

C – 6  (INDIAN ETHICS)

v  Expect learning outcome – on completion of course, students will able to –

v  This paper intends to acquaint students with the basic ethical concept of Indian philosophy and develop critical thinking.

v  Explain about the Vedas and Uapanisadas and their ethical roles. The role of Karma in Bhagawat Gita and also explanation of Jnana and Bhakti Marga.

v  This paper also elaborates about the ethical thought of  Charvaka, Buddhist and Jain etc.

SEMSTER - III

C – 7 (WESTERN ETHICS)

v  Expect learning outcome – on completion of course, students will able to –

v  Explain basic problems of epistemology and metaphysics in classical Indian philosophy.

v  This paper also elaborates and intends to different interpretation of utility of ethical and moral concept of good, ought and right.

v  Aristotle’s description of virtue and other different thinker’s though,t duty and conflict of duties.

SEMSTER - III

G.E. – 3 (FUNDAMENTAL OF INDIAN PHILOSOPHY)

v  Expect learning outcome – on completion of course, students will able to –

v  Explain

v  This Paper intends introduce students with basic problems of epistemology and metaphysics in classical Indian philosophy.

v  This paper introduces students to understanding the nature and characteristics of Indian philosophy. It also attempt to introduce Astika and Nastika schools.

SEMESTER – IV :

C – 8  (CONTEMPORARY INDIAN PHILOSOPHY)

v  Expect learning outcome – on completion of course, students will able to –

v  Explain the philosophical problems from the perspective of contemporary Indian philosophy.

v  This paper introduces students to the salient features of contemporary Indian philosophy, classical and contemporary Indian philosophy.

v  This paper also introduce to students the contemporary thinkers thought about the universal religion of Vivekananda, evolution of Sri Arobindo, Gandhian non violence and Radhakrishnan’s Intellect and intuition. 

SEMESTER – IV:

C – 9  (SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY)

v  Expect learning outcome – on completion of course, students will able to –

v  Explain

v  This Paper attempts to students with different social and political ideas from philosophical perspective and develop systematic and critical understanding about them.

v  This paper also introduce to students about the nature and scope of social philosophy. It also elaborate about relation between individual and society and from the discussion of political thought it also give the different knowledge about state, nation, equality and justice.

SEMESTER - IV

C – 10 (PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION)

v  Learning outcome – on completion of course, students will able to –

v  Explain different philosophical issues and theories regarding religion

v  .This paper also elaborates the nature and scope of religion, religion and science. On the other hand it also explains for students to understand the anthropological and psychological theories and divine determinism and human freedom. 

SEMESTER – IV:

G.E. – 4 (APPLIED ETHICS)

v  Learning outcome – on completion of course, students will able to explain

v  The basic idea of applied ethics concerning value of life, environmental ethics and professional ethics.

v  This paper also analyze moral and non moral action and it also want to introduce to students the value of human life and female feticide capital punishment. It also wants to analyze about the relation between doctor and patient etc.

SEMESTER - V :

C – 11:  (CONTEMPORARY INDIAN PHILOSOPHY - II)

Objectives of this paper:

v  This paper intends to explore different interpretations given by Contemporary of Indian thinker and to develop critical understanding about them

v  This paper is deals with the analytical thoughts of contemporary Indian Philosopher K.C. Bhattacharjya, J. Krishnamurti, Dayakrishna, M.N. Roy from a philosophical outlook.

Learning outcomes:-

On completion of the course, the students will be able to:

v  K.C. Bhattachargya's philosophy on the philosophical concepts like - Absolute ,Notion of Subjectivity etc.

v  J. Krishnamurti's analytical thoughts on freedom from the known, self, inner -transformation.

v  How does Dayakrishna analyses on philosophy and interpretation of purusartha.

v  M.N. Roy's basic notion on concept of philosophy, radical humanism, concept of freedom.

 

 SEMESTER – V:

C - 12 : (EXISTENTIALISM AND PHENOMENOLOGY) 

Objectives of this paper :

v  This paper attempts to introduce some very important movements and positions of western philosophy with specific thinkers.

v  This paper is aims at acquainting the students with certain issues of phenomenology and Existentialism and discussing Husserl, Heidegger, Kierkegaard, Gabriel Marcel, Nietzrche, Sartre from a western philosophical outlook. 

Learning outcomes:-

On completion of the course, the students will be able to:

v  a). Explain the nature, important features, main approaches of the phenomenology.

v  b. Describe the Existentialism, its salient features, Theistic and Atheistic Existentialism (Types of Existentialism).

v  c. Husserl's philosophy on Epoche, Reduction and Interntionality.

v  d. Heidegger is critical thoughts on Existence, Being and Dascin.

v  .Kierkegaard's analysis on three stages of Existentialism - Transformation, Subjectivity and Truth.

v  f. Explain the Being and Others, Being and Becoming from Gabriel Marchel's thoughts.

v  g. Describe the concept of Nihilism, will to power, superman in the Nietzsche's viewpoint.

v  h.Critically analyze on Existence and Essence, Freedom, Humanism in Sartre’s philosophy.

SEMESTER – V:

DSE - 1 (1): PHILOSOPHY OF VEDAS AND UPANISADS

Objectives of this Course:

v  This paper attempts to acquaint the students with origin and history of Indian philosophy.

v  This paper attempts to introduce some very important notion (concepts) of Indian philosophy with Vedic and Upanishadic philosophy. 

Learning outcomes:-

On completion of the course, the students will be able to:

v  Discuss in details along with a general outlook of Indian philosophy from the Vedas and Uapanishadic philosophy.

v  Introduction of Vedic and Upanishadic philosophy, Origin, different stage, different types etc.

v  Philosophical importance and significance of Vedas and Upanishads.

v  Describe the Vedic concept are Rta, Rna, Yajna, Man Nature and Duties.

v  Explain the Upanishadic concepts in different Upanishads like Atman, Jiva, Jagat, Mukti, Purusartha.

 

SEMESTGER – V:

DSE - 2 (1): META ETHICS

Objectives of this paper:

v  This paper attempts to acquaint the students with certain problems of meta-ethics and to develop an understanding on them.

v  This paper is discussing G.E. Moore, A.J. Ayer, J.H. Stevenson, R.M. Hare from a western philosophical outlooks.

Learning outcomes:-

On completion of the course, the students will be able to:

v  Introduction to meta-ethics.

v  Nature and scope of meta-ethics.

v  G.E. Moore's critical analyses on concept of Good, Naturalistic Fallacy.

v  A.J. Ayer and J.L. Stevenson's discussion on Emotivism.

v  How does describe prescriptivism by R.M. Hare.

SEMESTER - VI :

C - 13: (COMPARATIVE RELIGION)

Objectives of this paper:

v  This paper aims at acquainting the students with characteristics and comparative study of different aspects of world religion.

v  It encompasses the different religions along with the necessity and value of comparative religion and religious understanding. 

Learning outcomes:-

On completion of the course, the students will be able to:

v  Nature, Objectives and values of comparative religion.

v  Acquaintance with different existing world religion like - Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Jainism, Sikhism, Zoroastrianism.

v  Describe the principal sects, Saivism, Saktism, Vaishnavism of Hinduism.

v  New Vaishnavism: from Sankardeva and Madhabdeva's view point.

v  e Comparison on the basis of God, World, Self and Human destiny among the Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

v  f. Meaning and Importance of the Secularism and Religious understanding. 

v  g. Meaning and Significance of Fanaticism

v  h. Nature and Possibility of Universal Religious. 

 

SEMESTER – VI:

C - 14: ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY

Objectives of this paper:

v  This paper intends to attempts to acquaint the analytic trends in western philosophy and its different dimensions leading to critical analysis.

v  This paper is deals with the foundation and developments of major philosophical orientations of Russell, Frege, Wittgenstein, G.E. Moore, A.J. Ayer etc.

Learning outcomes:-

            On completion of the course, the students will be able to:

v  Nature and significance of analytical philosophy.

v  Discuss on important issues like appearance and reality, existence of matter, nature of matter.

v  Russell’s analytic philosophy on acquaintance and description, logical atomism.

v  Sense and reference from Frege’s thoughts.

v  Analyze about the facts and proposition, picture theory, theory of meaning, language, game and refutation of atomism by Wilt gen stein.

v  G.E. Moore’s analytic view point on refutation of idealism, Neo realism, problem of sense data.

v  Elimination of metaphysics from A.J. Ayer’s philosophical perspectives.

SEMESTER – VI:

DSE – 3 (I): PSYCHOLOGY 

Objectives of this Course:

v  This paper intends to acquaint the students with the nature as well as methods of psychology and the traits of personality with theories of learning.

v  This paper deals with the psychology aspects of human life. 

Learning outcomes:

On completion of the course, the students will be able to:

v  Explain the concept, nature, methods, schools and applied psychology.

v  Describe the physiological basis of mental life.

v  Explain the concept of sensation and perception with different theories.

v  Describe the meaning of memory, forgetting imagination, feeling and emotion and its different aspects in human mental life.

v  Describe the different theories of learning.

Objectives of this Course:

v  f. Explain the meaning, traits, factors and kinds of personality.

v  g. Explain the concept, nature and testing IG of intelligence.

v  h. Describe the nature and types of motivation. 

SEMESETER – VI:

DSE – 4 (I): APPLIED ETHICS 

 

v  This paper aims at acquainting the students with basic ideas of applied ethics concerning value of life, environmental ethics and professional ethics.

v  It also discusses the basic issues and problems of ethics from at present day persecutions. 

Learning outcomes:-

On completion of the course, the students will be able to:

v  Explain the nature, scope, moral and non moral action and the utility of ethics.

v  Describe the value of human life with different aspects like – suicide, female foeticide, capital punishment etc.

v  Explain the nature as means or end and the importance of environmental ethics in the present content.

v  Analyse the different professional ethics, these are medical ethics-euthanasia, abortion, doctor-patient relation in ethical content.

v  Analyse the media ethics-privacy, problem of yellow journalism in present day context.  

 

SYLLABUS:

CHOICE BASED CREDIT SYSTEM

B.A. (HONOURS) PHILOSOPHY

 

 

SEMESTER- I SEMESTER– II

C1: Indian Philosophy C3: Ancient Greek Philosophy

C 2: Logic C4: Indian Logic

SEMESTER– III SEMESTER– IV

C5: Modern Western Philosophy C8: Contemporary Indian Philosophy-I

C6: Indian Ethics C9: Social and Political Philosophy

C7: Western Ethics C10: Philosophy of Religion

SEMESTER– V SEMESTER– VI

C11: Contemporary Indian Philosophy – II C13: Comparative Religion

C12: Phenomenology and Existentialism C14: Analytic Philosophy 2

DISCIPLINE SPECIFIC ELECTIVE (DSE)

SEMESTER-V SEMESTER-VI

DSE-1(I): Philosophy of Vedas and Upanishads DSE-3(I): Psychology

or or

DSE-1(II): Aesthetics DSE-3 (II): Philosophy of Mind

DSE-2 (I): Meta-ethics DSE-4 (I): Applied Ethics

or or

DSE-2 (II): Philosophy of Feminism DSE-4 (II): Project Work

GENERIC ELECTIVE (GE)

SEMESTER– I SEMESTER– II

GE-1: Introduction to Philosophy GE-2: Introduction to Logic

SEMESTER– III SEMESTER– IV

GE-3: Fundamentals of Indian Philosophy GE-4: Applied Ethics 3

B.A. (NON-HONOURS) PHILOSOPHY

DISCIPLINE SPECIFIC COURSE (DSC)

SEMESTER– I SEMESTER– II

DSC-1A: Indian Philosophy DSC1B: Fundamentals of Western Philosophy

SEMESTER– III SEMESTER– IV

DSC-1C: Fundamentals of Logic DSC-1D: Fundamentals of Ethics

DISCIPLINE SPECIFIC ELECTIVE (DSE)

SEMESTER-V SEMESTER-VI

DSE-1A (I): Western Philosophy DSE-1B (I): Contemporary Indian Philosophy

or or

DSE-1A (II): Analytic Philosophy DSE-1B (II): Social and Political Philosophy

GENERIC ELECTIVE (GE)

SEMESTER– V SEMESTER– VI

GE-1: Introduction to Philosophy GE-2: Introduction to Logic 4 

SEMESTER-V (HONOURS)

C11: CONTEMPORARY INDIAN PHILOSOPHY-II

(5 Lectures + 1 Tutorial = 6 Credits)

Full Marks: 100 End-Semester Marks: 80

In-Semester Marks: 20

Objectives: This paper intends to explore different interpretations given by Contemporary Indian thinkers and to develop critical understanding about them.

Unit- I Marks: 25

K.C. Bhattacharyya: Concept of Philosophy, Notion of Subjectivity and Concept of

Absolute

Unit- II Marks: 25

J. Krishnamurti: Freedom from the Known, Self, Inner-transformation

Unit- III Marks: 25

Dayakrishna: Concept of Philosophy, Interpretation of Puruṣãrtha

Unit- IV Marks: 25

M. N. Roy: Concept of Philosophy, Radical Humanism, Concept of Freedom

Total Lectures of 1 hour duration: 70

Tutorial Classes of 2 hour duration: 14

Total Credits after Calculation: 06

Suggested Readings:

1. Krishnamurti, J.: Freedom from Known

2. Dayakrishna: New Perspective in Indian Philosophy

3. Bhattacharyya, K. C.: Studies in Philosophy 5

4. Srivastava: Contemporary Indian Philosophy

5. Mahadevan: Contemporary Indian Philosophy

6. B.K. Lal: Contemporary Indian Philosophy

7. Sarmah, Nilima: Twentieth Century Indian Philosophy

8. Roy, M. N. (2004): Radical Humanist: Selected Writings, Kolkota, Premetheus

9. Kalita, Madan Chandra: Samasamayik Bharatiya Darsana

C12: PHENOMENOLOGY AND EXISTENTIALISM

(5 Lectures + 1 Tutorial = 6 Credits)

Full Marks: 100 End-Semester Marks: 80

In-Semester Marks: 20

Objectives: This paper attempts to introduce some very important movements and positions of western philosophy with specific thinkers.

Unit- I Marks: 25

Phenomenology: Nature, important features, main approaches

Existentialism: Salient features, Theistic and Atheistic Existentialism

Unit- II Marks: 25

Husserl: Epoche Reduction, Intentionality

Heidegger: Existence, Being, Dasein

Unit- III Marks: 25

Kierkegaard: Three stages of Existentialism- Transformation, Subjectivity and Truth.

Gabriel Marcel: Being and Others, Being and Loving. 6

Unit- IV Marks: 25

Nietzsche: Nihilism, Will to Power, Superman

Sartre: Existence and Essence, Freedom, Humanism.

Total Lectures of 1 hour duration: 70

Tutorial Classes of 2 hour duration: 14

Total Credits after Calculation: 06

Suggested Readings:

1. Bhadra, Mrinalkanti: A Critical Survey of Phenomenology and Existentialism

2. Sartre, Jean Paul (1948): Existentialism and Humanism, (Trans) Philip Manot, London:

Mathuen.

3. Solomon, Robert C. ( Ed. 2001): Phenomenology and Exixtentialism, Rowman &

Littlefield Publishers, Lanham-Maryland.

4. Kaufmann, Walter(1975): Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre, New American

Library

5. Flynn, Thomas R.(2006): Existentialism: A very Short Introduction, Oxford University

Press 7

DISCIPLINE SPECIFIC ELECTIVE (DSE)

DSE-1 (I): PHILOSOPHY OF VEDAS AND UPANISHADS

(5 Lectures + 1 Tutorial = 6 Credits)

Full Marks: 100 End-Semester Marks: 80

In-Semester Marks: 20

Objectives: This paper attempts to acquaint the students with the origin and history of Indian Philosophy.

Unit-I Marks: 25

Introduction to Vedic and Upanisadic Philosophy, Philosophical importance and significance of Vedas and Upanisads

Unit-II Marks: 25

Vedas: Concept of Man, Nature and Deities

Unit-III Marks: 25

Upanisads: Brahman, Atman, Jiva, Jagat and Mukti

Unit-IV Marks: 25

Rta, Rna, Yajna, Purusartha, Shreyah, Preyah

Total Lectures of 1 hour duration: 70

Tutorial Classes of 2 hour duration: 14

Total Credits after Calculation: 06

Suggested Readings:

1. Dasgupta, S.N.: History of Indian Philosophy (Relevant parts of the five volumes)

2. Radhakrishnan, S.: The Principal Upanisads, Harpercollins, 2006.

3. Radhakrishnan, S.: Indian Philosophy, Vol. I 8

4. Tiwari, K.N.: Classical Indian Ethical Thought

5. Mahadevan, T.M.P.: Upanisads (Selection from 108 Upanisads), Motilal Banarsidass

DSE-1 (II): AESTHETICS

(5 Lectures + 1 Tutorial = 6 Credits)

Full Marks: 100 End-Semester Marks: 80

In-Semester Marks: 20

Objectives: This paper intends to make the students familiar with the preliminaries of aesthetics and also of certain concepts and theories.

Unit-I Marks: 25

Aesthetics: Introduction, Nature and Components

Aesthetic experience, qualities and attitude

Unit-II Marks: 25

Defining Art, Theories of art: Art as Representation (Plato), Art as Communication (Tolstoy), Art as Symbolic Form (Susane Langer)

Unit-III Marks: 25

Concept of Rasa in Indian Aesthetics, Constituents of Rasa, Is Rasa Internal or External?

Unit-IV Marks: 25

Bharata’s theory of Rasa

Total Lectures of 1 hour duration: 70

Tutorial Classes of 2 hour duration: 14

Total Credits after Calculation: 06 9

Suggested Readings:

1. Oswald, Hansfling: Philosophical Aesthetics

2. Coomaraswami, A. K.: The Transformation of Nature in Art

3. Ghosal, S.N.: Elements of Indian Aesthetics

4. Bharatamuni(1988): Natyashastra Vol.-I, Parimal Publications, Delhi

5. Goswami, Trailokyanath(1980): Nandantatta: Prachya Aru Pachatya, Bani Prakashan

DSE-2 (I): META-ETHICS

(5 Lectures + 1 Tutorial = 6 Credits)

Full Marks: 100 End-Semester Marks: 80

In-Semester Marks: 20

Objectives: This paper attempts to acquaint the students with certain problems of meta-ethics and to develop an understanding on them.

Unit-I Marks: 25

Meta-Ethics: Introduction, Nature and Scope

Unit-II Marks: 25

G. E. Moore: Concept of Good- Naturalistic Fallacy

Unit-III Marks: 25

A.J. Ayer and J. L. Stevenson: Emotivism

Unit-IV Marks: 25

R.M. Hare: Prescriptivism

Total Lectures of 1 hour duration: 70

Tutorial Classes of 2 hour duration: 14

Total Credits after Calculation: 06 10

Suggested Readings:

1. Moore, G. E.: Principia Ethica

2. Ayer, A. J.: Language, Truth and Logic

3. Stevenson, J. L.: Ethics and Language

4. Hare, R. M.: The Language of Morals

5. Stevenson, J. L.; ‘The Emotive Meaning of Ethical Terms’

6. Hosper, John: An Introduction to Philosophical Analysis, Routledge

DSE-2 (II): PHILOSOPHY OF FEMINISM

(5 Lectures + 1 Tutorial = 6 Credits)

Full Marks: 100 End-Semester Marks: 80

In-Semester Marks: 20

Objectives: This paper aims at introducing feminism as a movement and to develop an understanding of women’s rights on the grounds of equality of the sexes.

Unit-I Marks: 25

Feminism: Meaning and definition, Kinds of Feminism, Feminism and Philosophy,

Unit-II Marks: 25

Gender Concepts: Gender, Sexuality and Gender, Gender Discrimination, Gender stereotyping, Androgyny

Unit-III Marks: 25

Gender and Society: Family, Kinship and Marriage in India, Patriarchy

Unit-IV Marks: 25

Gender Inequality: Violence against Women, Female Foeticide, Female Infanticide, Child Marriage, Dowry, Domestic Violence, Rights of Girl Child.

Total Lectures of 1 hour duration: 70

Tutorial Classes of 2 hour duration: 14

Total Credits after Calculation: 06 11

Suggested Readings:

1. Chatterjee, Margaret: Feminism, Oxford University Press

2. Simone de Beauvoir (2015): The Second Sex, Vintage Classics

3. Sushila, Ramaswamy: Political Theory, Ideas and Concepts, Macmillan India Ltd.

4. Cunningham, Anne C. (2017): Critical Perspectives on Feminism, Enslow Pub. Inc.

SEMESTER-VI (HONOURS)

C13: COMPARATIVE RELIGION

(5 Lectures + 1 Tutorial = 6 Credits)

Full Marks: 100 End-Semester Marks: 80

In-Semester Marks: 20

Objectives: This paper aims at acquainting the students with characteristics and comparative study of different aspects of world religions.

Unit-I Marks: 25

Comparative Religion: Nature of Objective and Values

Acquaintance with Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Jainism, Sikhism, Zoroastrianism

Unit-II Marks: 25

Hinduism: Principal Sects (Śaivism, Śaktism, Vaisnavism)

Neo Vaisnavism: Śankardeva and Madhabdeva. 12

Unit-III Marks: 25

Judaism, Christianity and Islam (Comparison on the basis of God, World, Self and Human destiny)

Unit-IV Marks: 25

Secularism and Religious understanding: Fanaticism, Possibility of Universal religion

Total Lectures of 1 hour duration: 70

Tutorial Classes of 2 hour duration: 14

Total Credits after Calculation: 06

Suggested Readings:

1. Tiwari, Kedarnath: Comparative Religion

2. Radhakrishnan, S.(1979): Indian Religions,Vision Books

3. Paden, William E. (1994): Religious Worlds: The Comparative Study of Religion,

Beacon Press

4. Baruah, Girish: Prithibir Bibhinna Dharma: Ek Tulanamulak Aaluchana

5. Roy, Hemanta Kumar ( Edited): Sankardevar Dharma Aaru Darsana

C14: ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY

(5 Lectures + 1 Tutorial = 6 Credits)

Full Marks: 100 End-Semester Marks: 80

In-Semester Marks: 20

Objectives: This paper attempts to acquaint the analytic trends in western philosophy and its different dimensions leading to critical analysis.

Unit-I Marks: 25

Analytic Philosophy: An overview 13

Appearance and Reality, Existence of matter, Nature of matter

Unit-II Marks: 25

Russell: Knowledge by Acquaintance and Description, Logical Atomism

Frege: Sense and Reference

Unit-III Marks: 25

Wittgenstein: Facts and Proposition, Picture theory, Theory of Meaning, Language game, Refutation of Atomism

Unit-IV Marks: 25

G.E. Moore: Refutation of Idealism, Neo Realism, Problem of Sense data.

A. J. Ayer: Elimination of Metaphysics

Total Lectures of 1 hour duration: 70

Tutorial Classes of 2 hour duration: 14

Total Credits after Calculation: 06

Suggested Readings:

1. Urmson, J.O. (1978): Philosophical Analysis, New York, Oxford University Press

2. Stephen, P. Schwartz (2012): A Brief History of Analytical Philosophy: From Russell to

Rawals.

3. Glock, Hans- Johann (2008): What is Analytic Philosophy, Cambridge, Cambridge

University Press

4. Martinich, A.P. & Sosa, David (2011): Analytic Philosophy: An Anthology, Wiley

Blackwell 14

DISCIPLINE SPECIFIC ELECTIVE (DSE)

DSE-3 (I): PSYCHOLOGY

(5 Lectures + 1 Tutorial = 6 Credits)

Full Marks: 100 End-Semester Marks: 80

In-Semester Marks: 20

Objectives: This paper intends to acquaint the students with the nature as well as methods of psychology and the traits of personality with theories of learning.

Unit-I Marks: 25

Psychology: Its nature and methods

Schools of Psychology

Applied Psychology

Unit-II Marks: 25

Physiological basis of mental life

Sensation: Its definition, Weber-Fechner law of sensation

Perception: Stages of perception, Gestalt theory of perception

Unit-III Marks: 25

Memory, Forgetting and Imagination

Feeling and Emotion

Theories of Learning: Gestalt theory, Thorndike’s Trial and Error theory

Unit-IV Marks: 25

Personality: Traits, Factors and Kinds

Intelligence: Nature and Testing IQ

Motivation: Nature and Types 15

Suggested Readings:

Bhattacharya, P.N.: A Text Book of Psychology

Murphy: An Introduction to Psychology

Sinha, J.N.: A Manual of Psychology

Sarma, R.: Outlines of General Psychology

Mahanta, Harakanta: Monovidya Parichaya

Goswami, Saratchandra: Monovijnan

DSE-3 (II): PHILOSOPHY OF MIND

(5 Lectures + 1 Tutorial = 6 Credits)

Full Marks: 100 End-Semester Marks: 80

In-Semester Marks: 20

Objectives: This paper intends to acquaint the students with certain issues in connection with philosophy of mind.

Unit-I Marks: 25

Mind-body Problem and Descartes’ Dualism

Unit-II Marks: 25

Behaviourism, (Ch.) Ryle: Descartes’ Myth

Unit-III Marks: 25

Identity theory: Introduction, Types and Token Identity, Multiple Realizability

Unit-IV Marks: 25

Functionalism: Introduction, Being as Doing, Arguments for and against Functionalism

Total Lectures of 1 hour duration: 70

Tutorial Classes of 2 hour duration: 14

Total Credits after Calculation: 06 16

Suggested Readings:

1. Ryle, Gilbert: The Concept of Mind

2. Churchland, P.(1988). Matter and Consciousness: A Contemporary Introduction to the

Philosophy of Mind, USA, MIT Press.

3. Kim, J.(2010). Philosophy of Mind, (3rd edition), USA, Westview Press.

4. Montero, Barbara (2008). On the Philosophy of Mind (Wadsworth Philosophical Topics),

Wadsworth Publishing.

DSE-4 (I): APPLIED ETHICS

(5 Lectures + 1 Tutorial = 6 Credits)

Full Marks: 100 End-Semester Marks: 80

In-Semester Marks: 20

Objectives: This paper aims at acquainting the students with basic ideas of applied ethics concerning value of life, environmental ethics and professional ethics.

Unit-I Marks: 25

Nature, Scope and Utility of Ethics

Moral and Non-moral action

Unit-II Marks: 25

Value of Human life, Suicide, Female foeticide, Capital punishment

Unit-III Marks: 25

Nature as Means or End

Importance of Environmental Ethics in the present context 17

Unit-IV Marks: 25

Professional Ethics: Medical Ethics- Euthanasia, Abortion, Doctor-Patient relation

Media Ethics- Privacy, Problem of Yellow Journalism

Total Lectures of 1 hour duration: 70

Tutorial Classes of 2 hour duration: 14

Total Credits after Calculation: 06

Suggested Readings:

1. Singer, Peter (1986): Applied Ethics, Oxford, Oxford University Press

2. Piet, John H. & Prasad Ayodhya (eds,2000): An Introduction to Applied Ethics, New

Delhi, Cosmo Publications

3. Lafollette, Hugh (Ed. 2014): Ethics in Practice: An Anthology, Wiley Blackwell

4. May, Larry (2010): Applied Ethics: A Multicultural Approach, Pearson

DSE- 4 (II): PROJECT WORK

Objectives: This work aims at allowing the students to work independently with their own capabilities. It will provide a learning experience in which students have the opportunity to synthesize knowledge from various fields of philosophical learning. 18

SEMESTER- V (NON-HONOURS)

DISCIPLINE SPECIFIC ELECTIVE (DSE)

DSE-1A (I): WESTERN PHILOSOPHY

(5 Lectures + 1 Tutorial = 6 Credits)

Full Marks: 100 End-Semester Marks: 80

In-Semester Marks: 20

Objectives: This paper intends to make the students familiar with basic ideas of philosophy concerning theories and categories of knowledge and truth.

Unit-I Marks: 25

Definition, Nature, Scope and Utility of Philosophy

Branches of Philosophy: Epistemology, Metaphysics and Axiology

Relation between Philosophy and Science

Unit-II Marks: 25

Theories of Knowledge: Rationalism, Empiricism and Kant’s Critical theory

Unit-III Marks: 25

Categories of Knowledge: Space. Time, Substance and Causality

Unit-IV Marks: 25

Theories of Truth: Correspondence, Coherence, Pragmatic and Self-evident theory

Total Lectures of 1 hour duration: 70

Tutorial Classes of 2 hour duration: 14

Total Credits after Calculation: 06

Suggested Readings:

1. Connor, D.J. (1964): A Critical History of Western Philosophy, MacMillan, New York

2. Thilly, Frank: History of Philosophy 19

3. Masih, Y: A Critical History of Western Philosophy

4. Pujari, Bandana: Paschatya Darsanat Abhumuki

5. Bhattacharjee, Jyotsna: Darsanar Parichaya

6. Baruah, Girish: Paschatya Darsana

DSE-1A (II): ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY

(5 Lectures + 1 Tutorial = 6 Credits)

Full Marks: 100 End-Semester Marks: 80

In-Semester Marks: 20

Unit-I Marks: 25

Analytic Philosophy: Its Nature, Scope, Characteristic Features and Development

Unit-II Marks: 25

Russell: Knowledge and Logical Atomism

Frege: Sense and Reference

Unit-III Marks: 25

Wittgenstein: Facts and Propositions, Picture theory

Language game, Theory of Meaning

Unit-IV Marks: 25

Moore: Refutation of Idealism, Problem of Sense Data

Ayer: Elimination of Metaphysics- Proposition, Principle of Verification, Criterion of

Verifiability 20

Suggested Readings:

1. Urmson, J.O. (1978): Philosophical Analysis, New York, Oxford University Press

2. Stephen, P. Schwartz (2012): A Brief History of Analytical Philosophy: From Russell to

Rawals

3. Glock, Hans- Johann (2008): What is Analytic Philosophy, Cambridge, Cambridge

University Press

4. Martinich, A.P. & Sosa, David (2011): Analytic Philosophy: An Anthology, Wiley-

Blackwell

GENERIC ELECTIVE (GE)

GE-1: INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY

(5 Lectures + 1 Tutorial = 6 Credits)

Full Marks: 100 End-Semester Marks: 80

In-Semester Marks: 20

Objectives: This paper attempts to acquaint the students with basic ideas of philosophy concerning theories and categories of knowledge and truth.

Unit-I Marks: 25

Definition, Nature, Scope and Relevance of Philosophy

Relation between Philosophy and Science

Unit-II Marks: 25

Theories of the origin of knowledge: Rationalism, Empiricism and Kant’s Critical theory

Unit-III Marks: 25

Realism: Naive Realism and Scientific Realism

Idealism: Subjective and Objective Idealism 21

Unit-IV Marks: 25

Categories of Knowledge: Space, Time, Substance, Causality

Theories of Truth: Correspondence, Coherence and Pragmatic Theory

Total Lectures of 1 hour duration: 70

Tutorial Classes of 2 hour duration: 14

Total Credits after Calculation: 06

Suggested Readings:

1. Connor, D.J. (1964): A Critical History of Western Philosophy, MacMillan, New York

2. Thilly, Frank: History of Philosophy

3. Masih, Y: A Critical History of Western Philosophy

4. Pujari, Bandana: Paschatya Darsanat Abhumuki

5. Bhattacharjee, Jyotsna: Darsanar Parichaya

6. Baruah, Girish: Paschatya Darsana 22

SEMESTER-VI (NON-HONOURS)

DSE-1B (I): CONTEMPORARY INDIAN PHILOSOPHY

(5 Lectures + 1 Tutorial = 6 Credits)

Full Marks: 100 End-Semester Marks: 80

In-Semester Marks: 20

Objectives: This paper intends to explore different interpretations on certain philosophical problems by Contemporary Indian thinkers.

Unit-I Marks: 25

Vivekananda: Practical Vedānta, Universal Religion, Philosophy of Education.

Unit-II Marks: 25

Sri Aurobindo: Evolution, Supermind, Synthesis of Yogā, Integralism.

Unit-III Marks: 25

Tagore: Humanism, Nature of Religion.

Iqbal: Intuition, Human Ego.

Unit-IV Marks: 25

Radhakrishnan: Intellect and Intuition; Man and his Destiny

Gandhi: Truth and Non-Violence.

Total Lectures of 1 hour duration: 70

Tutorial Classes of 2 hour duration: 14

Total Credits after Calculation: 06

Suggested Readings:

1. Radhakrishnan, S.: An Idealist View of Life

2. Srivastava: Contemporary Indian Philosophy 23

3. Mahadevan: Contemporary Indian Philosophy

4. B.K. Lal: Contemporary Indian Philosophy

5. Sarmah, Nilima: Twentieth Century Indian Philosophy

6. Kalita, Madan Chandra: Samasamayik Bharatiya Darsana

DSE-1B (II): SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

(5 Lectures + 1 Tutorial = 6 Credits)

Full Marks: 100 End-Semester Marks: 80

In-Semester Marks: 20

Objectives: This paper attempts to acquaint students with different social and political ideas and to develop a systematic and critical understanding about them.

Unit-I Marks: 25

Nature and Scope of Social Philosophy

Concept of Individual, Society, Community, Association, Institution, Theories of the relation between Individual and Society

Unit-II Marks: 25

Family: Nature and kinds, Rule of family in the society, Social evolution and Social progress, Social evil

Unit-III Marks: 25

Nature and Scope of Political Philosophy; Basic concept of State, Nation, Liberty, Equality and Justice

Democracy: Its different forms

Unit-IV Marks: 25

Gandhi: Concept of Sarvodaya

Ambedkar: Annihilation of Caste

Marx: Concept of Class 24

Total Lectures of 1 hour duration: 70

Tutorial Classes of 2 hour duration: 14

Total Credits after Calculation: 06

Suggested Readings:

1. Gauba, O.P. (2009): Social and Political Philosophy, Mayur Paperbacks

2. Miller, David (2003): Political philosophy: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University

Press

3. Baruah, Girish: Samaj Darsana

4. Bhattacharyya, Jyotsna: Samaj Darsana

5. Gauhati Viswavidyalaya: Samaj Darsana

GENERIC ELECTIVE (GE)

GE-2: INTRODUCTION TO LOGIC

(5 Lectures + 1 Tutorial = 6 Credits)

Full Marks: 100 End-Semester Marks: 80

In-Semester Marks: 20

Objectives: This paper attempts to make the students familiar with the basic ideas of Aristotelian and Symbolic logic.

Unit-I Marks: 25

Definition, Nature, Scope and Utility of logic

Word and Term: Definition and Classification, Connotation and Denotation of term and their relationship

Unit-II Marks: 25

Proposition: Traditional and Modern Classification

Inference: Deductive and Inductive

Unit-III Marks: 25

Immediate Inference: Conversion and Obversion

Mediate Inference: Syllogism and its Structure and Rules

Unit-IV Marks: 25

Symbolic Logic: Characteristics of symbolic Logic, Development of Symbolic logic, Symbols and Its usage, Basic truth functions

Total Lectures of 1 hour duration: 70

Tutorial Classes of 2 hour duration: 14

Total Credits after Calculation: 06

Suggested Readings:

1. Copi, I.M.: Introduction to Logic, Delhi: Pearson.

2. Copi, I.M.: Symbolic Logic

3. Basson & Occonor: Introduction to Symbolic Logic

4. Suppes, P.: Introduction to Logic

5. Roy, Hemanta Kr.: Tarkavidya

5. Bhattacharjee, Jyotsna: Tarkavidya

 

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