course structure

course syllabus

unit 1: indian theories of knowledge (epistemology)

• classification of indian philosophical systems

• six ways of knowing in indian philosophy

• nyaya definition of perception and distinction between determinate and indeterminate perception

• buddhist view on indeterminate perception

• nyaya view on inference (nyaya) −

  • vyapti

  • tarka

  • kinds of anumana

• carvaka's critique of inference

unit 2: western theories of knowledge (epistemology)

• rationalism −
  • descartes on universal and certain knowledge
  • method of doubt
• empiricism −
  • locke on rejection of innate ideas
  • origin of ideas
  • kinds of knowledge
• hume −
  • impressions and ideas
  • kinds of knowledge
  • skepticism (causation, self)
• kant −
  • synthetic a priori knowledge

unit 3: principles of reasoning (logic)

• aristotelian logic
  • the nature and subject-matter of logic
  • terms, sentences, propositions, truth and validity
  • relations between propositions - square of opposition
  • changing sentences into their logical form
  • categorical syllogism
• symbolic logic
  • value of use of −
    • symbols
    • symbolization
    • variable
    • constant
  • truth function and truth-functional connectives
    • truth table
• inductive reasoning
  • mill's methods of experimental inquiry

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