Exam Details

Subject Epistemology
Paper
Exam / Course M.A. PHILOSOPHY (MAPY)
Department School of Interdisciplinary and Trans-Disciplinary Studies (SOITDS)
Organization indira gandhi national open university
Position
Exam Date December, 2016
City, State new delhi,


Question Paper

1. Give a detailed account of the various theories of truth accepted in the western philosophical tradition.
OR
Discuss picture theory as preliminary for language game theory.

2. What are the major sources of valid knowledge accepted by the different schools of Indian philosophy? Explain.
OR
What do you understand by Epistemology Discuss its nature and scope in detail.

3. Answer any two of the following in about 250 words each:

Narrate the debate between internalism and externalism.

What do you understand by theory-ladenness of observation Explain.

Discuss the limits of Holism.

Explain the linguistic tum in philosophy and the reconstruction of metaphysics.

4. Answer any four of the following in about 150 words each:

What is hermaneutics

Describe epistemic justification.

Distinguish between contextualism and foundationalism.

What do you understand by Khyativada

Differentiate between 'concept' and

What is cognitive dispute?

5. Write short notes on any five of the following in about 100 words each:

Syadvada

Naturalized Epistemology

Certitude

Qualia

Asatkhyati

Coherentism

Nominalism

Capacity of the text


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Subjects

  • Dalit Philosophy
  • Epistemology
  • Ethics
  • Gandhian Philosophy
  • Indian Philosophy
  • Logic
  • Metaphysics
  • Philosophy Of Art (Aesthetics)
  • Philosophy Of Human Person
  • Philosophy Of Mind
  • Philosophy Of Religion
  • Philosophy Of Science And Cosmology
  • Philosophy Of Sri Aurobindo
  • Philosophy Of Technology
  • Research Methodology In Philosophy
  • Tribal Philosophy
  • Western Philosophy
  • World Religions