CBSE 11th Class Philosophy Syllabus

Course Structure

Course Syllabus

Unit 1: Indian Theories of Knowledge (Epistemology)

• Classification of Indian philosophical systems
• Six ways of knowing in Indian Philosophy
• Nyaya definition of perception and distinction between determinate and indeterminate perception
• Buddhist view on indeterminate perception
• Nyaya view on inference (Nyaya) −
  • Vyapti
  • Tarka
  • Kinds of Anumana
• Carvaka’s critique of inference

Unit 2: Western Theories of Knowledge (Epistemology)

• Rationalism −
  • Descartes on universal and certain knowledge
  • Method of doubt
• Empiricism −
  • Locke on rejection of innate ideas
  • Origin of ideas
  • Kinds of knowledge
• Hume −
  • Impressions and Ideas
  • Kinds of knowledge
  • Skepticism (causation, self)
• Kant −
  • Synthetic a priori knowledge

Unit 3: Principles of Reasoning (Logic)

• Aristotelian Logic
  • The nature and subject-matter of logic
  • Terms, sentences, propositions, truth and validity
  • Relations between propositions – square of opposition
  • Changing sentences into their logical form
  • Categorical syllogism
• Symbolic Logic
  • Value of use of −
    • Symbols
    • Symbolization
    • Variable
    • Constant
  • Truth function and truth-functional connectives
    • Truth Table
• Inductive Reasoning
  • Mill’s Methods of Experimental Inquiry