Subsections
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- Introduction to Philosophy and the notion of Public: What is a Public Affair? The Public and the Political, Nature of Ideology in Public Affairs and its Philosophical Assumptions. Ethics and Public Affairs.
- Analysis of Concepts and Categories used in Public Discussions: The idea of Liberty and Freedom, Analysis of the concept of Religion, Spirituality (the Constructivist view and its counter), Religion and Society and the issues of Freedom of Expression, Speech and Secularism. Authority, Power, Equality and Justice.
- Science and the Public: Ethics in Science in its different dimensions, The problem of pseudoscience: The demarcation problem between science and pseudoscience (Popper, Laudan and Piglucci). Science and Religion issues (Discussions on Stephen Gould’s NOMA and a case study of Scopes Trial, McClean vs Arkansas and subsequent debates on the issue as a public affair).
- Indian Philosophy and public perception.
- The idea of a Public Intellectual, The origins of intellectual (the Dreyfus Affair)
- Beckwith, Francis J. Science and Religion Twenty Years after McLean v. Arkansas: Evolution, Public Education, and the New Challenge of Intelligent Design. Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy 26 (Spring 2003): 455–490.
- Berlin, Isaiah The Purpose of Philosophy, in Concepts and Categories: Philosophical Essays, Henry Hardy (ed.), PIMLICO, London, 1999.
- Bhargava, Rajeev and Acharya, Ashok, Political Theory, Pearson, New Delhi, 2016.
- Brighouse, Harry, Justice, Polity Press, 2004.
- Kurtz, Paul (ed.), Science and Ethics, Prometheus Books, 2007.
- Kurtz, Paul (ed.), Science and Religion, Prometheus Books, 2003.
- Posner, Richard, Public Intellectuals: A Study of Decline, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massuchusetts, 2001.
- Rolin, Bernard, Science and Ethics, Cambridge University Press, 2006.
- Sandel, Michael, Justice: What’s the right thing to do?, Penguin, 2010.
- Smith, William Cantwell, The Meaning and End of Religion, Fortress Press, 1988.
- Short readings on the themes covered above from the WIRE, Scroll etc depending on the relevance to the current issues in different spheres.
