CBSE 11th Class Philosophy Syllabus

Course Structure

Course Syllabus

Unit 1: Indian Theories of Knowledge (Epistemology)

Classification of Indian philosophical systems

Six ways of knowing in Indian Philosophy

Nyaya definition of perception and distinction between determinate and indeterminate perception

Buddhist view on indeterminate perception

Nyaya view on inference (Nyaya) −

Vyapti

Tarka

Kinds of Anumana

Carvaka s critique of inference

Unit 2: Western Theories of Knowledge (Epistemology)

Rationapsm −

Descartes on universal and certain knowledge

Method of doubt

Empiricism −

Locke on rejection of innate ideas

Origin of ideas

Kinds of knowledge

Hume −

Impressions and Ideas

Kinds of knowledge

Skepticism (causation, self)

Kant −

Synthetic a priori knowledge

Unit 3: Principles of Reasoning (Logic)

Aristotepan Logic

The nature and subject-matter of logic

Terms, sentences, propositions, truth and vapdity

Relations between propositions - square of opposition

Changing sentences into their logical form

Categorical syllogism

Symbopc Logic

Value of use of −

Symbols

Symbopzation

Variable

Constant

Truth function and truth-functional connectives

Truth Table

Inductive Reasoning

Mill s Methods of Experimental Inquiry

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