Subsections
[Cr:4, Lc:3, Tt:1, Lb:0]
This is a theme based course on reason and rationality. It is a reading
course.
- Idea of reason and rationality. Structure and substance of
rationality, theoretical and practical reason. Evidence and analysis.
Historicist theories of rationality.Scientific rationality.
- Science and religion and conflict. Debates on faith and reason.
Dawkins, Gould, Gutting and Marx on religion(with focus on role of
reason).
- Science and psuedoscience- the nature of its demarcation.
- Rationality in Indian thought.
- Reason in the context of justice, morality and identity. Idea of
public reason.
- R. Audi, Architecture of Reason, Oxford University Press, 2002
- R. Dawkins, The God Delusion, Bantam Press, 2008
- P. Kurtz, Science and Religion, Prometheus Books, 2003
- J. Ganeri, Philosophy in Classical India, Routledge, 2001
