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Epistemology (MA 3rd SEMESTER )

MA 3rd SEMESTER

Department Philosophy

Lecture: Zahra Fareed

Academic program : MA 3^rd semester (2019,2020)

Paper: Epistemology

Code: PHIL-625

Title: Epistemology

Type: Compulsory

Introduction

This course will examine major approaches to the theory of knowledge. We will be looking at some of recent and contemporary debates in epistemology, including those over the structure of knowledge, the proper analysis of knowledge, justification related discussion of language and meaning, naturalized epistemology.

Objectives

To introduce the students with major problem of epistemological issues and debates of then modern thought.

Contents

· Epistemology: introduction, Meaning, definitions and era.

· Epistemology: relation with Art. Aesthetics

· Knowledge: nature and definition of knowledge.

· Kinds of knowledge: procedural, acquaintance, propositional.

· Sources of knowledge: intuitionalism, Rationalism, Empiricism,

· Empiricism: common sense realism, representative realism.

· Problems of Epistemology: Skepticism, Solipsism, Dualism.

· Justification of knowledge: its claims.

· Aim of belief: Intention and convention.

· Theories of truth: correspondence, Coherence, Pragmatic.

Outcome

Students will be able to understand epistemological debates of the modern age. Further they will be able to comprehend the problems of the age. In this way they will be capable to resolve the issues of their age in the perspective of western modern thought.

MARKS:

MID TERM PAPER:30 MARKS

FINAL TERM PAPER:40 MARKS

QUIZ MARKS: 15 MARKS 3 QUIZZES

Assignments and presentation: two assignments (15 marks)

Teacher: Zahra Fareed

Later Modern Philosophy (MA 3rd SEMESTER )

MA 3rd SEMESTER

Teacher: Hamid Hassan Khan

Classical Muslim School of Thought (BS 2)

Department philosophy:

Lecturer: Zahra Fareed:

Semester: BS 2nd Semester

Subject: Classical Muslim thought

Code: PHIL-604

Title: Classical Muslim Thought

Type: Compulsory

Introduction

This course will examine main questions of Muslim Theology as well as a selective study of the problems discussed by Muslim philosophers of medieval centuries specifically problems relating to metaphysics and epistemology. However, Mystic Doctrine of the Unity of Being (Ibn Arabi) may also be included in this course.

Objectives

To introduce the students with major intellectual movements of the Classical age of Muslim Thought.

Contents:

· Introduction and origin of classical Muslim philosophy

· Influence of Greek on Muslim philosophy

· Qaderia School of thought

· Jaberia School of thought

· Mu’tazila’s

· Asharism

· Sufism

· Ikhwan Al Safa

MUSLIM PHILOSOPHERS

· Al-Kandi

· Al-Farabi

· Ibn-e-Sina

· Ghazali

· Ibn-e-Rushed

Out comes

Students will be able to understand the scenario of the Classical age of Muslim thought. Further they will be able to comprehend the problems of that age. In this way they will be capable to resolve the issues of their age in the perspective of Muslim thought.

Recommended Books

· H. A. Wolfson, [1996], The Philosophy of the Kalam, Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

· Oliver Leaman, [1995], An Introduction to Medieval Islamic Philosophy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

· William C. Chittick [1991], Wahdat Al-Wujud in Islamic Thought in The Bulletin, Jan-March.

MARKS:

MID TERM PAPER:30 MARKS

FINAL TERM PAPER:40 MARKS

QUIZZES MARKS (3 QUIZZES)

ASSIGNMENTS AND PRESENTATION:15 MARKS