*Year 1: Foundations of Philosophy* 

*Semester 1* 

1. *Introduction to Philosophy* 

   - Key branches: Metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, logic. 

   - Classic questions: "What is reality?" "What is knowledge?" 

 

2. *Logic and Critical Thinking* 

   - Formal logic (propositional, predicate). 

   - Informal fallacies and argument analysis. 

 

3. *Ancient Greek Philosophy* 

   - Socrates, Plato, Aristotle. 

   - Pre-Socratics and Hellenistic schools (Stoicism, Epicureanism). 

 

4. *Ethics: Foundations* 

   - Virtue ethics (Aristotle), deontology (Kant), utilitarianism (Mill). 

 

5. *Elective 1* 

   - *Philosophy of Religion* 

   - *Aesthetics* 

 

*Semester 2* 

1. *Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy* 

   - Augustine, Aquinas, Machiavelli, Erasmus. 

   - Faith vs. reason debates. 

 

2. *Social and Political Philosophy* 

   - Hobbes’ Leviathan, Rousseau’s Social Contract, Marx’s Capital. 

 

3. *Indian Philosophy* 

   - Vedanta, Buddhism, Jainism, and Carvaka (materialism). 

 

4. *Philosophy of Science* 

   - Scientific method, paradigms (Kuhn), realism vs. anti-realism. 

 

5. *Elective 2* 

   - *Environmental Ethics* 

   - *Philosophy of Mind* 

 

*Year 2: Modern Philosophy and Applications* 

*Semester 3* 

1. *Modern Philosophy (17th–18th Century)* 

   - Rationalism (Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz). 

   - Empiricism (Locke, Hume, Berkeley). 

 

2. *Existentialism and Phenomenology* 

   - Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Sartre, Heidegger. 

 

3. *Philosophy of Language* 

   - Frege, Wittgenstein, speech acts (Austin), semantics vs. pragmatics. 

 

4. *Applied Ethics* 

   - Bioethics, AI ethics, animal rights, and business ethics. 

 

5. *Elective 3* 

   - *Feminist Philosophy* 

   *Postcolonial Philosophy* 

 

 *Semester 4* 

1. *19th–20th Century Philosophy* 

   - Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Foucault, Derrida. 

 

2. *Analytic Philosophy* 

   - Russell, Wittgenstein, Quine, and logical positivism. 

 

3. *Continental Philosophy* 

   - Husserl, Sartre, Adorno, and critical theory. 

 

4. *Metaphysics and Ontology* 

   - Free will vs. determinism, mind-body problem, time and space. 

 

5. *Elective 4* 

   - *Philosophy of Technology* 

   - *Global Justice* 

 

*Year 3: Specializations and Advanced Topics* 

*Semester 5* 

1. *Contemporary Philosophy* 

   - Postmodernism, pragmatism (Rorty), and neurophilosophy. 

 

2. *Epistemology* 

   - Theories of truth, scepticism, and justification. 

 

3. *Philosophy of Law* 

   - Natural law vs. legal positivism, rights, and justice. 

 

4. *Elective 5* 

   - *Philosophy of Art* 

   - *Philosophy of Education* 

 

5. *Research Methodology* 

   - Writing philosophical essays, thesis proposal drafting. 

 

*Semester 6* 

1. *Capstone Project/Dissertation* 

   - Independent research on a topic (e.g., AI ethics, existential freedom). 

 

2. *Comparative Philosophy* 

   - Cross-cultural dialogues (East-West, African philosophy). 

 

3. *Professional Ethics* 

   - Case studies in medicine, engineering, and public policy. 

 

4. *Elective 6* 

   - *Philosophy of Psychology* 

   - *Philosophy of History* 

 

 *Electives (Sample Options)* 

- *Bioethics and Medical Humanities* 

- *Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence* 

- *Philosophy of Film and Media* 

- *Philosophy of Economics* 

- *Ancient Chinese Philosophy (Confucianism, Daoism)* 

 

*Interdisciplinary Courses (Optional)* 

- *Cognitive Science and Philosophy* 

- *Philosophy and Literature* 

- *Philosophy of Quantum Physics* 

- *Digital Ethics and Policy* 

 

 *Assessment Methods* 

- *Argumentative Essays* 

- *Logic Problem Sets* 

- *Class Debates and Presentations* 

- *Exams (Essay-Based)* 

- *Dissertation defence*