Course: Thinking and Imagination

Post

Readings
First Semester MA
Instructor: Sundar Sarukkai
Week Date
Readings
1. Aristotles Syllogistic
1 Oct
9
3 Oct
Make up class
2. Neil Tennant - Aristotle's Syllogisms
8 & 9 Oct
10

3. Rules of Logic
4. Logical Fallacies

10 Oct

5. Matilal Character of Logic in India

15 & 16

6. Zimmerman - Dualism in the philosophy of minds

7. William Lycan The Mind-Body problem

Oct
11
17 Oct

12

23 Oct

8. Kishore Chakrabarthy - Understanding Nyaya-Vaisheshika Dualism

9. Thompson and Dreyfus Asian perspective: Indian theories of Mind
10.

IEP article Image Imagery debate

mid-term

24 Oct

11.

Mary J. Reichling - Images of Imagination

Oct

12.
13.

Rajashekhara Kavyamimamsa (Pada-Vakya-Viveka chapter)

David Shulman Illumination, Imagination, Creativity

31 Oct

14.

Shulman How real is the Imagination?

5 & 6 Nov

15.

Robert Kearney Poetics of Imagination (Husserl and Sartre)

7 Nov

16.

Robert Kearney Poetics of Imagination(Bachelard)

Nov

17.
18.

John Harker Reading Poetry

Hilary Putnam Literature, Science and Reflection

14 Nov

19.

Gerald Holton - On the Art of Scientific Imagination

29 & 30
13

14

12 & 13
15