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Economics and Ethics
How do economists tackle open-ended questions about welfare, equality, justice and freedom?
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Environmental Philosophy
Understand the current discourse on pressing environmental philosophical questions.
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Ethical Reasoning
How do we understand the rights and wrongs of what humans do?
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Ethics
Challenge your own views and broaden your perspective by critically examining your ethical stances on diverse issues.
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Ethics and Moral Philosophy
How do we decide the best course of action? What do we think of as a good life? Are value judgements that we make universal or subjective?
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Field Practice in Philosophy
Apply your philosophical capabilities and ideas to new problems and practical contexts.
Human Nature and Epistemology
The nature of knowledge and human beings.
Indian perspectives on knowledge and education
What are Indian ideas about what education and knowledge ought to be?
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Introduction to Philosophy
This course equips students with core philosophical capabilities, especially working with others you disagree with, clarity of expression, and building the foundations of rigorous creativity.
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Introduction to Philosophy
This course equips students with core philosophical capabilities, especially working with others you disagree with, clarity of expression, and building the foundations of rigorous creativity.
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Knowledge, Value, and Reality
Develop essential skills like engaging with opposing viewpoints, clarity of expression, and the foundations for rigorous creativity.
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Paradoxes
This course introduces formal systems as tools to solve specific problems, giving students the capacity to evaluate which (and whether) a particular formal system is appropriate for the problem before them.
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Perspectives on Philosophy of Science
Examine scientific and social scientific texts and ideas and evaluate the presuppositions behind them
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Philosophy for Children
Engage in philosophical inquiry with a wider audience than the academic setting of the university.
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Philosophy of Art
In this course, we will investigate the nature of artworks and the role they play in our lives; we will focus on specific problem cases and concrete artworks in order to answer these questions.
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Philosophy of Law
The course introduces students to philosophical considerations that underpin laws and legal systems, their functioning, and their limitations.
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Philosophy of Measurement
In this course, students will gain the capability of identifying and evaluating the normative presuppositions of different measurements through detailed case studies.
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Philosophy of Religion
The special aim of this course is to give students the capability of understanding and working with others from any of the major religions of India.
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Philosophy of Science
Explore questions about how natural and social science work.
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Philosophy of Science
This course aims to enable students to rigorously engage with, and critically evaluate, scientific and social scientific work.
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Philosophy of the Environment
In this capstone course, students bring together the different parts of philosophy they have studied in order to analyse problems about the relationship between humans and the environment as well as the value and moral and political status of the environment.
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Political Philosophy
Explore the dynamic realm of politics by thoughtfully engaging with your preferred ideologies and confront compelling arguments in favor of opposing viewpoints.
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Power and Agency
Explore power dynamics through in-depth analysis of influential thinkers, like Marx, Weber, Freud, Lacan, Adorno, Gramsci, Foucault, etc.
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Reading Political Philosophy
What is a state and what allows it to exert power on us? Do we need a state? Do we have liberties and rights?
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Reasoning
Get introduced to techniques for evaluating and understanding reasoning.
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Science Fiction and Mind
Explore questions about the nature of the mind and consciousness through works of science fiction.
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The Self
In using insights from both analytic philosophy and Indian philosophy to grapple with questions about the self, students will develop the capability to draw ideas from one tradition to solve problems that arise in another.
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Understanding Reality
Analise some of our most fundamental assumptions about the nature of the world.