DAMP Physics, IITB

Instructor:  Amrita Banerjee Course Name:   Introduction to Philosophy (HS301) Course Type:  Theory (HSS Core) Credits:  6 Prerequisites:  None Course Content:   Ancient Philosophy: Plato's Apology, Daodejing, Katha Upanishad, Buddhism, Advaita Vedanta Modern and contemporary philosophers: Rene Descartes, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, Bentham, Simon de Beauvoir, Judith Butler Books: No books are required. Lecture slides and philosophical texts of different philosophers form the core of the course Lectures: The prof teaches from slides. Interaction and discussion is encouraged in class. The course is a 101 in Philosophy. It exposes you to views of various different philosophers of various different times. You may not agree with several of them. But the aim of the course is not to make you decide right from wrong. It aims to just cultivate a philosophical attitude in you exposing you to different approaches to some of the ...

Instructor Name:  Amrita Banerjee Course Type:  Humanities Elective Course Content:  Introduction to philosophy; its origin, history and classifications: epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, logic Topics were taught from selections of many famous texts Plato's ""Apology"" and epistemology Laozi's ""Daodejing"" and ethics Indian philosophy: ""Katha Upanishad"" Buddhist philosophy: ""Life in the world is full of suffering"" and all that Descartes' ""Meditations"": Rationalism David Hume's ""An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding"": Empiricism Bentham's Utilitarianism Immanuel Kant's ""Critique of Pure Reason"" and ""Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals"": epistemology and moral philosophy Simone de Beauvoir's ""The Ethics of Ambiguity"": Existentialism and Ethic...