PHILOSOPHY
Total Marks - 200
Total Marks - 200
PAPER I (Marks - 100)
1. Formal and informal arguments: Elements of deductive reasoning; validity and truth: Proposition and syllogism.
2. Definition with special reference to Aristotle, Ibn-e-Taimya's Criticism of Aristotle; Relativity of definition: Ambiguity; vagueness and emotive use of language as impediments in clear thinking: Fallacies – formal, material and linguistic
3. Symbolic Logic: value of special symbols, symbols for conjunction, Negation, Disjunction and Implication, Method of Deduction: Formal proofs of validity, Rules of Replacement.
4. The nature of scientific theory: Scientific method; Inquiry at common sense level and scientific level; Scientific explanation; The grounds of belief: induction, probability and functional analysis.
5. Muslim contribution to Logic - inductive and deductive
PAPER - II (Marks -100)
PHILOSOPHY - WESTERN AND ISLAMIC
1. Idealism, Pragmatism, Vitalism Logical Positivism, Existentialism and Dialectical Materialism: The main arguments of these Philosophical theories and their impact on life and morals.
2. Muslim Rationalists and Social Thinkers-Al-Farabi, Ibn-i-Sina, Ibn-i-Rushd, and Ibn-i-Khaldun: their main doctrines.
3. Schools of Muslim Theology - Mutazilism, Ash’ arism, Sufism Al-Ghazali (his Ethics and Criticism of Muslim Rationalists)
4. Muslim thought in South Asia with special reference to Shah Wali Ullah. Sayyid hmad Khan and Iqbal and Post-Iqbalian Thought.
SUGGESTED READINGS
Title | Author | |
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| A Modern Introduction to Metaphysics | Drenon D.A. |
2
| A History of Philosophical Systems | Firm, Vergilius |
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| Aqliyyat-e-Ibn-e-Taimya (Urdu) | Maulana Muhammad Hanif Nadvi |
4
| A Modern Introduction to Logic | Stebbing, L.S. |
5
| Critical Thinking | Blank, Max |
6
| History of Muslim Philosophy Vol. I & II | Sharif, M.M |
7
| History of Modern Philosophy | Wright, W.K. |
8
| Human Knowledge, Its Scope and Limits | Russel, B. |
9
| History of Islamic Philosophy | Fakhri, Majid |
10
| Introduction to Philosophy | Patrick G.T.W. |
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| Iqbal and Post-Kantian Voluntarism | Dar, B.A. |
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| Introduction to Logic | Copi, I.M. |
13
| Logic Postivism | Qadir, C.A. |
14
| Philosophical Analysis | Urmson, J.O. |
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| Reconstructon of Religious Thought in Islam | Iqbal, M. |
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| Types and Problems of Pholosophy | Mead, H. |
17
| Types of Philosophy | Mocking, W.E. |
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