Theistic Schools: Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira Belur Math, Howrah Syllabus for M.A. (To be effective from ) Subject: Philosophy Full Marks:

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1 Theistic Schools: Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira Belur Math, Howrah Syllabus for M.A. (To be effective from ) Subject: Philosophy Full Marks: 1000 Semester - 1 Paper I (Epistemology) Nyāya Sūtra of Gautama with Vātsyāyana Bhāsya: (Nyāya Sūtra 3 8) Vedānta Paribhāṣā : Dharmarāja Adhvarindra (from Mangalācaraṇa to Viṣayagata Pratyakṣa) Atheistic School: Unit-III: Buddhism Nyāyabindu : Dharmakīrti (Selections) Epistemology Classical: Critique of Pure Reason : Immanuel Kant ; Translated by Norman Kemp Smith (From Preface to Transcendental Deduction) Some Issues in Epistemology: Epistemology Modern: Unit-III: Nature and Definition of Knowledge, Gettier Problem and Responses to it Scepticism and the Possibility of Knowledge. Justification of knowledge claims: Foundationalism, Coherentism and Reliabilism (13 Marks) (12 Marks) Paper II (Ethics) Mahābhārater Sāntiparva (Moksadharma Parvadhyāya) Manusaṁhita (Selections) Unit-III: Ethics and Epics: Bimal Krishna Motilal (Selections) 1

2 Unit-III: Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals: Immanuel Kant, Translated & Edited by H.J. Paton (Selections) Metaethics: Cognitivism Naturalism and Intuitionism Non Cognitivism, Emotivism, Prescriptivism Ethics: Practical Ethics : Peter Singer ( Selections: Life and Death issues, Issues in Environmental Ethics) Paper III (Extra Study, Project and Seminar) Unit I : Extra Study Semester-2 Paper IV (Metaphysics) Sāṁkhya Kārika: Iswarakrishna (Selections) Padārthadharma Saṁgraha: Praśastapādabhāṣya (Selections) Republic Plato (Selections) (30 Marks) Metaphysics: Aristotle (Selections) 2

3 Paper V (Political Philosophy & Symbolic Logic) (Political Philosophy) Hegelian Philosophical Thought Marxian Philosophical Thought Unit-III: On Liberty: J.S. Mill (Selections) (Symbolic Logic) Different Methods of Logic (Decision Procedures, Natural Deduction Techniques in Propositional logic and Quantification theory) Unit-III: Symbolic Logic : Irving M. Copi (5th Edition) Section 4.1 to 5.1, Appendix B Formal Logic - Its scope and limits : R. Jeffrey (1st Edition) [Chapter 6] Methods of Logic : W.V.O. Quine Part I : Truth Function [Chapter 5 to 7 and 9] Part II : General Terms and Quantifiers [Chapter 18, 19, 22 to 24] Paper VI (Extra Study, Project and Seminar) Unit I : Extra Study 3

4 Semester-3 Paper VII (Philosophy of Language) Bhāṣāpariccheda with Siddhāntamuktāvali : Visvanātha (Śabdakhanda) Vākyapadiyaṁ : Bharttŗhari (Selections) Tractatus Logico Philosophicus: Ludwig Wittgenstein (Selections) Classics of Analytic Philosophy ; Edited by: Robert R. Ammerman (Selected Articles) Paper VIII (Contemporary Trends in Philosophy) Phenomenology Existentialism Philosophical views of Swami Vivekananda (13 Marks) Philosophical views of Rabindranath Tagore (12 Marks) Unit-III: Philosophical views of Mahatma Gandhi (13 Marks) Unit-IV: Philosophical views of Sri Aurobindo (12 Marks) 4

5 Paper IX (Extra Study, Project and Seminar) Unit I : Extra Study Semester-4 Paper X & XI (Special Paper) A student can select any one of the following groups: (Marks ) Group A: Western Logic Group B: Vedānta Group C: Ethics Group D: Social & Political Philosophy. Paper XII (Extra Study, Project and Seminar) Unit I : Extra Study 5

6 Special Paper Western Logic Paper X Group A Symbolic Logic : Irving M. Copi (5th Edition) (35 Marks) Formal Logic - Its scope and limits : R. Jeffrey (1st Edition) [chapter 7 & 9] Group B Principia Mathematica : Bertrand Russell, A.N. Whitehead (upto Th 30) Modal Logic (Recommended book: An Introduction to Modal Logic : G.E. Hughes and H.J. Cresswell ) [T-system: proving validity and proving invalidity] Paper XI Group A Introduction to Logical Theory: P.F. Strawson (Ch 1 & 3) Philosophical Logic (ed. by P.F. Strawson) (Selections) Group B Probability & Induction : William Kneale (Selections) Induction and Hypothesis : Stephen Barker (Selections) 6

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