How do we understand the rights and wrongs of what humans do?

In this course students focus on ethics as applied to concrete ethically troubling contexts within the broader context of India and learn to come up with their own views and criticisms.

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?

Apply your philosophical capabilities and ideas to new problems and practical contexts.

The nature of knowledge and human beings. 

What are Indian ideas about what education and knowledge ought to be?

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.

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.

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.

Examine scientific and social scientific texts and ideas and evaluate the presuppositions behind them

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.

The course introduces students to philosophical considerations that underpin laws and legal systems, their functioning, and their limitations.

In this course, students will gain the capability of identifying and evaluating the normative presuppositions of different measurements through detailed case studies.

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.

This course aims to enable students to rigorously engage with, and critically evaluate, scientific and social scientific work.

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.

This course will acquaint students with major political ideologies in India and enable them to talk to and work with those they disagree with on political issues.

This course enables students to think slowly and carefully, while working with others, through everyday arguments on topics of larger social interest.

What is a state and what allows it to exert power on us? Do we need a state? Do we have liberties and rights?