This course studies in-depth the ideas behind the study of history, the different schools of thought in history, and the underlying theories. Special attention will be given to the development of South Asian and Muslim philosophy of history.
The main focus of this course is to trace the connections between two disciplines: Literature and Philosophy; students survey how writers make use of philosophical ideas, themes, vocabulary and language; study of how literary texts can focus on important
- Teacher: Kamal Din
Rise of critical thought in the pre-Socratic Greek world and its development through the issues related to deriving the morally right and individual significance by understanding the universe's structure and function, classic Platonic and Aristotelian wor
- Teacher: Ghazala Irfan
A study of political thought from early Greece through the 17th Century. Analysis and evaluation of the issues and positions will be conducted using some original sources from philosophers including Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes, Machiavelli, Locke and Roussea
- Teacher: Qalandar Memon
Examination of logic, including both Stoic contributions as well as the systematic organization of the rules of right thinking developed by Aristotle and expanded by Medieval and later thinkers, concern about the issues raised by J S Mill and others who s
Critical thought as it develops from the 16th century CE to the present, including Eastern as well as Western thinkers, issues that captured attention because of the rise of the sciences, the development of naturalism, humanism and the challenges of 20th
- Teacher: Tajwar Mazhar
Selection of the problems historically identified as philosophical along with the methods philosophers have used to solve these problems including justice and moral order, evaluation and justification of belief and human value and dignity, identifying the
- Teacher: Ghazala Irfan
Selection of the problems historically identified as philosophical along with the methods philosophers have used to solve these problems including justice and moral order, evaluation and justification of belief and human value and dignity, identifying the
- Teacher: Ghazala Irfan