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B.A. (Philosophy)

Explore core philosophical ideas about reality, knowledge, morality, and human existence through critical analysis of classical and contemporary texts. This program cultivates logical reasoning, ethical understanding, and the ability to question assumptions, preparing students for varied intellectual and professional paths.

 

Key Information

Eligibility

  • BA in the relevant discipline.
  • BA, B.Com., B.Sc or Any Graduation degree.
  • BA (Education) or B.Ed. with 45% marks.
  • BA in German or any graduate degree with advanced diploma in German or graduate in any faculty with Mittelstufe I offered by Goethe Institute (Max Mueller Bhavan).

Duration

3 Years

Programme Code

BUA101

Course Type

Bachelor Degree

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Curriculum

Semester - I

Sr. No. Title of Paper Credits
1 Major I: Moral Philosophy I 4

Course Outcomes (CO)

Title of Paper Course Outcome
Major I: Moral Philosophy I CO1 (K1 – Remember / Identify): Identify the main areas of ethics (normative, descriptive, meta-ethics, applied) and recall key concepts such as intrinsic value, the Categorical Imperative, Eudaimonia, determinism, and free will.
CO2 (K2 – Understand / Explain): Summarise the central ethical arguments of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, explain the structure of Indian moral concepts (Rta, Rna, Purushartha, Nishkama Karma), and describe the major positions on freedom and determinism.
CO3 (K3 – Apply / Analyse): Apply the frameworks of virtue ethics, moral philosophy of the Bhagavad Gita, and compatibilism to analyse concrete moral situations and dilemmas; distinguish between hard determinism, libertarianism, and soft determinism.
CO4 (K4 – Evaluate / Examine): Evaluate the strengths and limitations of Greek ethical theories, Indian moral philosophy, and theories of free will; critically assess the coherence of compatibilism and the doctrine of the Mean.

Semester - II

Sr. No. Course Credits
1 Major I: Moral Philosophy II 04

Course Outcomes (CO)

Title of Paper Course Outcome
Major I: Moral Philosophy II CO1 (K1 – Remember / Identify): Recall key ethical theories of Hume, Kant, Mill, Sartre, Gilligan, and Ubuntu; identify the main arguments in debates on love, friendship, and theories of punishment.
CO2 (K2 – Understand / Explain): Explain Kant's Categorical Imperative, Mill's Greatest Happiness Principle, Sartre's notion of radical freedom, and the Ubuntu communitarian ethics of personhood and econciliation.
CO3 (K3 – Apply / Analyse): Analyse Plato's and Aristotle's accounts of love and friendship, apply retributive and deterrent theories of punishment to cases, and distinguish between existentialist and feminist ethical frameworks.
CO4 (K4 – Evaluate / Examine): Evaluate the coherence of Kantian deontology, utilitarian calculus, and care ethics; critically examine abolitionist and retentionist arguments on capital punishment and assess Badiou's notion of love as a truth procedure.

Semester - III

Sr. No. Type Course Credits
1 Major I Classical Indian Philosophy 04
2 Major II Early Greek and Roman Philosophy 04
3 VSC Philosophy of Science 02
4 Minor III Ideologies 04

Course Outcomes (CO)

Title of Paper Course Outcome
Major III: Classical Indian Philosophy I CO1 (K1 – Remember / Identify): Identify the major orthodox and heterodox schools of Indian philosophy, list the core doctrines of Carvaka, Jaina, and Buddhist traditions, and recall key concepts such as Brahman, Atman, Syadavada, Pratityasamutpada, and Nirvana.
CO2 (K2 – Understand / Explain): Explain the Vedic-Upanishadic worldview, summarise Carvaka hedonism and its rejection of caste, explain Jaina metaphysics (Anekantavada, Syadavada, Triratnas), and describe the Buddhist doctrines of Anatmavada, Kshanikavada, and the Four Noble Truths.
CO3 (K3 – Apply / Analyse): Analyse the epistemological implications of Carvaka's restriction of knowledge to perception, apply the Jaina doctrine of Anekantavada to contemporary philosophical debates, and compare Hinayana and Mahayana accounts of Nirvana.
CO4 (K4 – Evaluate / Examine): Evaluate the materialist critique of Vedic authority in Carvaka thought, assess the coherence of Buddhist no-self theory against the background of Brahmanical metaphysics, and critically examine the social and philosophical significance of Jaina ethics.
Major III: Early Greek and Roman Philosophy CO1 (K1 – Remember / Identify): Identify the major Pre-Socratic philosophers and their primary claims; recall the key doctrines of Plato (Theory of Forms, tripartite soul) and Aristotle (substance, four causes, syllogism); name the Hellenistic schools and their founders.
CO2 (K2 – Understand / Explain): Explain the Milesian quest for the arche, Heraclitus on flux, and Parmenides on Being; summarise Plato's Allegory of the Cave and the Theory of Recollection; describe Aristotle's four causes and his critique of Plato's Forms.
CO3 (K3 – Apply / Analyse): Analyse the Socratic method (elenchus) as a model of philosophical inquiry; apply Aristotle's syllogistic logic to evaluate arguments; compare the ethical and cosmological responses of Stoics and Epicureans to the problem of the good life.
CO4 (K4 – Evaluate / Examine): Evaluate the adequacy of Plato's Theory of Forms as a response to the problem of universals; critically assess Aristotle's teleological account of nature; examine Neoplatonism as a synthesis of Platonic and mystical traditions.
VSC: Philosophy of Science CO1 (K1 – Remember / Identify): Identify the demarcation problem in philosophy of science, recall Aristotelian and Galilean conceptions of science, and name key figures such as Hempel, Popper, Hume, Dilthey, Weber, and Habermas.
CO2 (K2 – Understand / Explain): Explain the deductive-nomological model of scientific explanation, describe Popper's falsificationism and Hume's problem of induction, and summarise the fact-value distinction and its significance for social-scientific methodology.
CO3 (K3 – Apply / Analyse): Analyse the epistemological implications of Galileo's mathematisation of nature compared to Aristotelian science; apply Popper's falsificationism and Hempel's D-N model to evaluate scientific claims.
CO4 (K4 – Evaluate / Examine): Evaluate the strengths and limitations of falsificationism, critically assess the is-ought distinction in the context of value-laden science, and examine the Dilthey-Habermas debate on the methodology of natural versus human sciences.
Minor III: Ideologies CO1 (K1 – Remember / Identify): Identify the meaning, functions, and origins of ideology as a concept; recall the defining features of Liberalism, Socialism, Nationalism, Populism, Feminism, and Environmentalism; name key thinkers associated with each tradition.
CO2 (K2 – Understand / Explain): Explain Mannheim's sociology of knowledge and Marx's concept of ideology as false consciousness; describe the core values of classical and social liberalism; summarise socialist and communist principles, the feminist critique of patriarchy, and the basis of ecological ideology.
CO3 (K3 – Apply / Analyse): Analyse how different ideologies construct the political subject; apply Eagleton's framework for ideology critique to contemporary political discourse; compare nationalist and populist mobilisations using Heywood's typology.
CO4 (K4 – Evaluate / Examine): Evaluate the internal tensions within liberalism between individualism and equality; critically assess socialist responses to capitalism; examine right-wing and left-wing populism as ideological phenomena and evaluate ecologism as a distinct ideological tradition.

Semester - IV

Sr. No. Type Course Credits
1 Major I Social Philosophy 04
2 Major II Political Philosophy 04
3 SEC Philosophy and Everyday Life 02
4 Minor IV Modern Indian Political Philosophy 04

Course Outcomes (CO)

Title of Paper Course Outcome
Major I: Social Philosophy CO1 (K1 – Remember / Identify): Identify key debates on family, gender, war, and multiculturalism; recall the views of Plato, Russell, de Beauvoir, Gandhi, Marx, Ambedkar, Said, and Parekh on social and political questions.
CO2 (K2 – Understand / Explain): Explain de Beauvoir's concept of woman as 'Other', summarise Ambedkar's critique of caste in Annihilation of Caste, describe the principles of Just War theory (jus ad bellum, jus in bello, jus post bellum), and outline Said's Orientalism.
CO3 (K3 – Apply / Analyse): Analyse gender as a social construct using de Beauvoir and Connell, apply Just War criteria to contemporary conflicts, and compare Gandhi's pacifism with Tolstoy's principled non-violence.
CO4 (K4 – Evaluate / Examine): Evaluate the philosophical grounding of same-sex marriage and live-in relationships, critically assess Bhikhu Parekh's multiculturalism against Brian Barry's liberal universalism, and examine Ambedkar's multi-pronged strategy for annihilating caste.
Major II: Political Philosophy CO1 (K1 – Remember / Identify): Identify key concepts in political philosophy — liberty, equality, justice, and recognition — and recall the positions of Berlin, Pettit, Dworkin, Gandhi, Nozick, Rawls, Ambedkar, Hegel, Honneth, and Fraser.
CO2 (K2 – Understand / Explain): Explain Berlin's negative and positive liberty and Pettit's republican freedom as non-domination; summarise Rawls's original position and two principles of justice; describe Honneth's three spheres of recognition.
CO3 (K3 – Apply / Analyse): Analyse Ambedkar's account of social justice and constitutional morality as a response to caste annihilation, apply Rawls's difference principle to questions of inequality in Indian society, and compare Nozick's entitlement theory with Rawlsian fairness.
CO4 (K4 – Evaluate / Examine): Evaluate the adequacy of formal equality against Dworkin's equality of resources, critically assess Fraser's two-dimensional theory of justice (recognition plus redistribution), and examine Hegel's Master-Slave dialectic as a foundation for political freedom.
SEC: Philosophy and Everyday Life CO1 (K1 – Remember / Identify): Identify common informal fallacies, recall the structure of deductive and inductive arguments, and name key ethical frameworks applicable to everyday decision-making.
CO2 (K2 – Understand / Explain): Explain what constitutes a valid, sound, and strong argument; describe the epistemological threats of misinformation, filter bubbles, and echo chambers; summarise how Consequentialism, Deontology, and Virtue Ethics apply to everyday choices.
CO3 (K3 – Apply / Analyse): Analyse real-world political speeches and advertisements to identify informal fallacies; apply ethical frameworks to dilemmas involving technology, privacy, and environmental responsibility.
CO4 (K4 – Evaluate / Examine): Evaluate the reliability of media sources using criteria of scientific consensus and epistemic accountability; critically assess the ethics of artificial intelligence, surveillance, and obligations to future generations.
Minor IV: Modern Indian Political Philosophy CO1 (K1 – Remember / Identify): Identify the major figures of modern Indian political philosophy — Tilak, Gandhi, Ambedkar, and M. N. Roy — and recall their principal concepts including Swaraj, Satyagraha, Trusteeship, Annihilation of Caste, and Radical Humanism.
CO2 (K2 – Understand / Explain): Explain Tilak's philosophical foundations of Swaraj and his conception of nationalist extremism; summarise Gandhi's vision of a non-violent society and his critique of Western modernity; describe Ambedkar's account of caste as a social institution and his response to it.
CO3 (K3 – Apply / Analyse): Analyse Ambedkar's critique of Marxism in the light of his engagement with Marx and Buddha; apply Gandhi's Sarvodaya to evaluate welfare debates; compare M. N. Roy's Radical Humanism with orthodox Marxism.
CO4 (K4 – Evaluate / Examine): Evaluate the coherence of Tilak's fusion of spiritual philosophy and political action; critically assess Gandhi's Satyagraha as a political method in the light of its contemporary applications; examine Ambedkar's social justice framework and Radical Humanism as responses to the limitations of both liberalism and Marxism.

Semester - V

Sr. No. Type Course Credits
1 Major I Classical Indian Philosophy 04
2 Major II Philosophy of Religion 04
3 Major III Living Ethical Issues 02
4 Elective Plato's Republic 04
5 VSC Contemporary Debates in Ethics 02
6 Minor Modernism and Postmodernism 04

Course Outcomes (CO)

Title of Paper Course Outcome
Major I: Classical Indian Philosophy CO1 (K1 – Remember / Identify): Identify the six orthodox Darsanas, recall the core categories of Nyaya, Vaisesika, Samkhya, Yoga, Purva Mimamsa, and Advaita Vedanta, and name the key Vedanta thinkers and their distinctive doctrines.
CO2 (K2 – Understand / Explain): Explain the Nyaya theory of pramanas and the Vaisesika atomism; describe the Samkhya dualism of Purusha and Prakriti, Satkaryavada, and the Yoga path to Kaivalya; summarise Shankara's Mayavada and Ramanuja's Vishishtadvaita.
CO3 (K3 – Apply / Analyse): Analyse the epistemological differences between the six pramanas of Mimamsa and the single pramana of Carvaka studied in SY; apply Shankara's Vivartavada and Ramanuja's Parinamavada to the problem of causation and the status of the world.
CO4 (K4 – Evaluate / Examine): Evaluate the competing accounts of Brahman in the Dvaitavada (Madhva), Dvaitadvaitavada (Nimbarka), and Suddhadvaitavada (Vallabha) traditions; critically assess Shankara's Mayavada and Ramanuja's critique of its implications for the reality of the world.
Major II: Philosophy of Religion CO1 (K1 – Remember / Identify): Identify the main attributes of God (omnipotence, omniscience, omnipresence, benevolence) and recall the Ontological, Cosmological, and Teleological arguments and their principal critics.
CO2 (K2 – Understand / Explain): Explain Anselm's and Descartes' ontological arguments and Kant's objection; summarise Pascal's Wager, William James's Will to Believe, and Clifford's evidentialism; describe Nietzsche's, Marx's, and Freud's critiques of religion.
CO3 (K3 – Apply / Analyse): Analyse the logical structure of traditional theistic arguments, apply Pascal's Wager and James's pragmatic fideism to questions of religious commitment, and compare the pragmatic justifications with evidentialist objections.
CO4 (K4 – Evaluate / Examine): Evaluate the coherence of traditional arguments for the existence of God in light of Humean and Kantian criticisms; critically assess whether pragmatic justifications can substitute for evidential proofs; examine Freud's psychoanalytic and Marx's ideological critiques of religion.
Major III: Living Ethical Issues CO1 (K1 – Remember / Identify): Identify the main bioethical debates on abortion, euthanasia, surrogacy, human experimentation, animal rights, and human cloning; recall the positions of Peter Singer and Tom Regan on moral consideration for animals.
CO2 (K2 – Understand / Explain): Explain the key arguments in the abortion debate (pro-choice vs pro-life), summarise the moral distinction between active and passive euthanasia, and describe the ethical principles of respect for autonomy, beneficence, and justice in human experimentation.
CO3 (K3 – Apply / Analyse): Analyse the ethical dimensions of surrogacy arrangements using feminist and Kantian frameworks; apply Singer's utilitarian and Regan's rights-based approach to evaluate practices of animal experimentation and factory farming.
CO4 (K4 – Evaluate / Examine): Evaluate the coherence of pro-life and pro-choice arguments in the abortion debate; critically examine the ethics of human cloning in terms of human dignity, instrumentalisation, and social justice.
Elective: Plato's Republic CO1 (K1 – Remember / Identify): Identify the major interlocutors and their positions in the Republic, recall the tripartite structure of the soul, and name the central arguments on justice, education, the Guardian class, and the Myth of Er.
CO2 (K2 – Understand / Explain): Explain Thrasymachus's challenge ('might is right') and Socrates' three-step refutation; summarise Plato's account of the tripartite soul and the correspondence between justice in the soul and justice in the state; describe the role of dialectic and the quarrel between philosophy and poetry.
CO3 (K3 – Apply / Analyse): Analyse the philosophical significance of Plato's abolition of the family and equality of sexes for the Guardian class; apply Plato's theory of the just soul to contemporary debates on moral psychology and political authority.
CO4 (K4 – Evaluate / Examine): Evaluate Thrasymachus's and Glaucon's challenge to conventional morality and assess the adequacy of Plato's response; critically examine Plato's ideal polity in terms of its authoritarian implications as critiqued by Karl Popper.
VSC: Contemporary Debates in Ethics CO1 (K1 – Remember / Identify): Identify the central arguments in debates on pornography, homosexuality, sexual harassment, hunger, poverty, and obligations to future generations; recall the positions of Peter Singer and Garrett Hardin.
CO2 (K2 – Understand / Explain): Explain the arguments for and against pornography, summarise Singer's case for obligations to the global poor, and describe Hardin's 'lifeboat ethics' critique of global assistance.
CO3 (K3 – Apply / Analyse): Analyse the philosophical grounds for and against state regulation of sexual preferences; apply Singer's and Hardin's frameworks to evaluate obligations to present and future generations.
CO4 (K4 – Evaluate / Examine): Evaluate whether censorship of pornographic material is philosophically justifiable; critically assess the tension between Singer's demanding utilitarian obligations and Hardin's resource-scarcity argument.
Minor: Modernism and Postmodernism CO1 (K1 – Remember / Identify): Identify the key characteristics of modern Western philosophy, recall the scholastic context from which it emerged, and name the major thinkers of modernity (Descartes, Kant, Hegel) and postmodernity (Lyotard, Derrida, Foucault).
CO2 (K2 – Understand / Explain): Explain the general features of modern philosophy and its transition from scholasticism; summarise Kant's critical project and Hegel's dialectical idealism; describe the transition to postmodernism through late capitalism, media culture, and the crisis of Enlightenment metanarratives.
CO3 (K3 – Apply / Analyse): Analyse Descartes' method of doubt and the modernist emphasis on reason and autonomy; apply Lyotard's critique of metanarratives and Derrida's deconstruction to texts and arguments; distinguish modernist and postmodernist philosophical orientations through close reading of primary texts.
CO4 (K4 – Evaluate / Examine): Evaluate the coherence and philosophical significance of modernist ideals of universal reason and progress; critically assess Foucault's historical ontology and Nick Land's anti-Enlightenment accelerationism as responses to modernity; examine the contemporary relevance of postmodern critiques of truth, objectivity, and representation.

Semester - VI

Sr. No. Type Course Credits
1 Major I Modern Western Philosophy 04
2 Major II Philosophy of Religion 04
3 Major III Living Ethical Issues 02
4 Elective The Buddha and His Dhamma 04
5 OJT On-the-Job Training 02
6 Minor Man, Machine, Nature: The 21st-Century Philosophical Turn 04

Course Outcomes (CO)

Title of Paper Course Outcome
Major I: Modern Western Philosophy CO1 (K1 – Remember / Identify): Identify the major Rationalist and Empiricist philosophers, recall Descartes' substance dualism, Spinoza's substance monism, Leibniz's monadology, and Kant's Copernican revolution; name the key figures of Absolute Idealism, Pragmatism, and Logical Positivism.
CO2 (K2 – Understand / Explain): Explain Descartes' method of doubt and cogito, summarise Locke's rejection of innate ideas and representative theory of perception, describe Hume's rejection of self as substance and causation, and outline Kant's reconciliation of rationalism and empiricism through sensibility and understanding.
CO3 (K3 – Apply / Analyse): Analyse Kant's analytic-synthetic and a priori-a posteriori distinctions; apply Bradley's theory of internal relations, Peirce's pragmatic theory of meaning, and Ayer's verification principle to evaluate metaphysical claims.
CO4 (K4 – Evaluate / Examine): Evaluate the coherence of substance dualism and Berkeley's idealism; critically assess the strengths and limitations of logical positivism as a philosophy of science and metaphysics; examine Carnap's programme of eliminating metaphysics through linguistic analysis.
Major II: Philosophy of Religion CO1 (K1 – Remember / Identify): Identify the main theories of religious language (analogical, symbolic, non-cognitive), recall William James's four marks of mystical experience, name the theodicies of Augustine, Leibniz, and Plantinga, and list the varieties of immortality discussed in the course.
CO2 (K2 – Understand / Explain): Explain Thomas Aquinas's analogical theory and Paul Tillich's symbolic theory of religious language; summarise the characteristics of mystical experience in Buddhist, Bhakti, and Sufi traditions; describe Leibniz's best-of-all-possible-worlds theodicy and Plantinga's free will defence.
CO3 (K3 – Apply / Analyse): Analyse the logical implications of different theories of religious language for the meaningfulness of theological discourse; apply James's analysis of mysticism to evaluate the epistemological status of religious experience; compare Platonic, Kantian, and transmigration accounts of immortality.
CO4 (K4 – Evaluate / Examine): Evaluate the adequacy of Aquinas's and Tillich's approaches to religious language against non-cognitivist objections; critically assess Plantinga's free will theodicy in terms of the logical problem of evil; examine the philosophical coherence of resurrection and disembodied survival.
Major III: Living Ethical Issues CO1 (K1 – Remember / Identify): Identify the major positions in environmental ethics (land ethics, deep ecology, ecofeminism) and recall the religious-philosophical attitudes of Vedic-Hindu, Judeo-Christian, and Buddhist traditions towards the natural environment.
CO2 (K2 – Understand / Explain): Explain Aldo Leopold's land ethics and Arne Naess's deep ecology; summarise the ecofeminist critique; describe the Hindu, Christian, and Buddhist relationships with the natural world.
CO3 (K3 – Apply / Analyse): Analyse the distinction between shallow and deep ecology in terms of their underlying metaphysical and ethical commitments; apply Buddhist environmental ethics to contemporary debates on development and sustainability.
CO4 (K4 – Evaluate / Examine): Evaluate ecofeminism as an environmental ethic by examining its conceptual foundations and limitations; critically assess whether religious traditions provide adequate philosophical grounding for environmental responsibility.
Elective: The Buddha and His Dhamma CO1 (K1 – Remember / Identify): Identify the key figures in the 19th–20th century revival of Buddhism in India (Dharmananda Kosambi, Dharmapala, Narasu, Rahul Sankrityayan), recall Ambedkar's central doctrinal revisions, and name the core Buddhist concepts reinterpreted by Ambedkar (Anicca, Anatta, Dukkha, Eightfold Path, Sangha, Bhikkhu).
CO2 (K2 – Understand / Explain): Explain Ambedkar's rationale for Buddhism as a modern egalitarian religion, summarise his reinterpretation of Siddhartha's renunciation as an anti-war act, and describe the core of the Buddha's Dhamma as Ambedkar reconstructs it — the Five Precepts, Saddhamma, and rejection of caste as not-Dhamma.
CO3 (K3 – Apply / Analyse): Analyse the philosophical implications of Ambedkar's distinction between Dhamma and Not-Dhamma; apply Ambedkar's reading of the Sangha as an egalitarian commune to contemporary debates on anti-caste community formation; compare Ambedkar's engagement with Marxist interpretations of Buddhism with those of Sankrityayan and Chattopadhyaya.
CO4 (K4 – Evaluate / Examine): Evaluate the philosophical coherence and internal tensions in Ambedkar's reconciliation of Anatta with moral agency and social responsibility; critically assess whether the Bhikkhu ideal as reformulated by Ambedkar risks reproducing heteronomous subjectivity; examine Ambedkar's use of democracy and peace as criteria for assessing religious teaching.
Minor: Man, Machine, Nature: The 21st-Century Philosophical Turn CO1 (K1 – Remember / Identify): Identify the key movements of the 21st-century philosophical turn (speculative realism, posthumanism, accelerationism, new materialism, ecofeminism) and recall the thinkers associated with each; name the central concepts of correlationism, anthropocentrism, and object-oriented ontology.
CO2 (K2 – Understand / Explain): Explain the Kantian roots of correlationism and Marx's account of technology as a social force; summarise the claims of speculative realism and object-oriented ontology against anthropocentric philosophy; describe left and right accelerationism and the cyborg paradigm of posthumanism.
CO3 (K3 – Apply / Analyse): Analyse the speculative realist critique of Kantian philosophy using Meillassoux's notion of ancestrality; apply left accelerationist frameworks (Srnicek, Williams) to debates on technology and post-capitalist futures; compare ecofeminist and new materialist approaches to ecology and the commons.
CO4 (K4 – Evaluate / Examine): Evaluate the strengths and limitations of posthumanism in dissolving the boundaries between human, machine, and nature; critically assess right accelerationism's vision of technological dystopia against left accelerationism's emancipatory claims; examine Haraway's cyborg manifesto and Federici's feminist commons as responses to global capitalism and ecological crisis.

Expert Faculty

Dr. Viplov Dhone

Dr. Viplov Dhone

Assistant Professor
Philosophy

Program Outcome (PO)

PO-1 : Critical Reasoning

Graduates will demonstrate the ability to identify, analyse, and evaluate philosophical arguments with clarity and rigour, applying formal and informal logical tools to academic and everyday contexts.

Graduates will exhibit proficiency in close reading, interpretation, and critical engagement with primary philosophical texts across Western, Indian, and non-Western traditions.

Graduates will articulate and apply normative ethical frameworks — including deontological, consequentialist, virtue-theoretic, feminist, African, and Ambedkarite approaches — to personal, social, and professional dilemmas.

Graduates will situate philosophical problems within their intellectual and socio-historical contexts, tracing continuities and ruptures across ancient, modern, and contemporary periods.

To enable the students to identify the established value system and develop some core values for the evolution of moral dimensions.

Graduates will engage critically with questions of caste, gender, class, and colonial power, drawing on anti-caste thought, feminism, and constitutional morality to articulate a commitment to justice, equality, and fraternity.

Graduates will communicate complex philosophical ideas clearly and precisely in written assignments, examinations, presentations, and discussions, adhering to academic conventions of argumentation and citation.

Graduates will demonstrate the capacity to pursue independent inquiry, evaluate emerging intellectual debates, and carry philosophical habits of mind into further study, civic life, and professional practice.

Programme Specific Outcomes (PSO)

PSO1 : Comparative Philosophical Literacy

Graduates will compare and contrast concepts across Indian schools (Carvaka, Jaina, Buddhist, Vedic-Upanishadic), Greek philosophy (Socratic, Platonic, Aristotelian), and modern/postmodern Western thought, identifying points of convergence and divergence between traditions rather than treating them in isolation.

Graduates will critically analyse caste, class, and power through the frameworks of Ambedkar, Gandhi, Tilak, and M. N. Roy, and apply ideological categories (liberalism, socialism, feminism, nationalism) to contemporary Indian social and political questions.

Graduates will apply classical (virtue ethics, deontology, consequentialism) and Indian (Nishkama Karma, Sthitaprajna) ethical frameworks, alongside contemporary debates in living ethical issues, to evaluate real-world moral dilemmas.

Graduates will critically engage with 21st-century philosophical movements — speculative realism, posthumanism, accelerationism, new materialism, and ecofeminism — evaluating their claims about technology, ecology, and the human/non-human boundary.

Graduates will distinguish and evaluate philosophical approaches to religious belief and scientific method, assessing debates on faith, rationality, and the scope and limits of scientific knowledge.

Graduates will demonstrate close-reading and argument-reconstruction skills on primary texts ranging from the Bhagavad Gita and Buddhist canon to Plato’s Republic, Kant, and Foucault, producing well-structured written and oral philosophical arguments.

Programme Objectives

  • Develop critical and analytical thinking by enabling students to examine philosophical ideas, evaluate arguments, and apply logical reasoning to academic, personal, and societal issues.
  • Provide a comprehensive understanding of philosophical traditions by introducing students to Indian, Western, and contemporary philosophical thought, ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, social and political philosophy.
  • Foster ethical awareness and value-based decision-making by encouraging the application of moral principles, constitutional values, and philosophical perspectives to contemporary social, professional, and global challenges.
  • Enhance research and interpretative skills through the study of classical and modern philosophical texts, critical inquiry, independent learning, and scholarly communication.
  • Promote social responsibility and democratic values by encouraging critical engagement with issues of justice, equality, human rights, gender, caste, environmental sustainability, and constitutional morality.
  • Develop interdisciplinary perspectives by connecting philosophy with science, technology, politics, culture, religion, environmental studies, and emerging global debates.
  • Strengthen communication and intellectual competence by developing students' ability to express complex philosophical ideas effectively through writing, presentations, discussions, and reasoned dialogue.
  • Prepare students for higher education and diverse careers by providing a strong academic foundation for postgraduate studies, research, civil services, education, public policy, law, journalism, social development, and other professions requiring critical thinking and ethical reasoning.

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