Programme Specific Outcome

Philosophy focuses on fundamental questions concerning the nature of reality, knowledge and values: metaphysics seeks to understand the true nature of reality in general and of humankind in particular, logic and epistemology endeavor to determine valid method of reasoning and the limits and criteria of knowledge; and ethics attempts to formulate the basic moral norms by which our choices and actions should be governed. Through the study of philosophy, students can improve their understanding of themselves and the world in which they live; they can increase their command of intellectually responsible methods of establishing and evaluating beliefs and theories; and they can develop more effective ways of determining their moral duties.

In general, the study of philosophy helps develop the ability to think clearly. If one understands how to think clearly, one can apply the techniques of critical and constructive thinking to the study of any discipline or to the concerns of any occupation. The department curriculum provides an opportunity for all students, whether majoring in philosophy or not, to be educated in the methods of critical and constructive thought through reflection on the fundamental presuppositions of knowledge in general and of individual disciplines such as art, mathematics, religions and science in particular. Genuine philosophy by its nature is dialectical; various points of view are brought into critical contact, their assumptions critically assessed, their connections and implications explored. This is the central task of the philosophical enterprise.

Programme Specific Outcomes of undergraduate courses

We provide all possible learning modes within our infrastructural constraints including Laptop Wi-Fi enabled, departmental library, PPT classes , remedial & tutorial classes, study material, extension lecture, students seminar, departmental Journal, students’ mentoring to help students learn following outcomes.

• 1. Study of Indian Philosophy students should make their ability to state a clear and strong objection to an argument advanced by others; and to articulate counter-arguments to their own objection.
• 2. Psychology helps student justify their own and evaluate others’ actions using general ethical principles of the psychological account as a framework.
• 3. Students will be capable of reading both primary and secondary sources through the western philosophical thought and analyzing their argument.
• 4. By the logical portion of entire syllabus of philosophy, will help identify arguments in ordinary language, as well as distinguish premises from conclusions and also help differentiate deductive arguments from inductive arguments, construct arguments of their own, and evaluate deductive arguments in terms of validity and soundness and inductive arguments in terms of strength and cogency.
• 5. After learning the rules of ethics students can analyze particular moral problems by applying those ethical theories which will help them examine the moral value of their own life as well as of others.
• 6. Through practical ethics students must learn the concepts of right, wrong, good and bad in their environment and also have to learn the moral principles and their application in everyday life.