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The course structure of PHI 141 under Humanities and Social Sciences UG Level 1Program offered by IIT (Indian Institute of Technology) Kanpur is as follows:

PHI 141
INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY
General Introduction to the Course; Nature of Knowledge; Sources of Knowledge; The Problem of Perception; Skepticism; Kinds of Metaphysics; Metaphysical Systems; Mind-Body Dualism; Proofs for the Existence of God; Positivistic Critique of Metaphysics; Normative Ethics; Meta-Ethics; Free will and Moral Responsibility.

Other Course Description

PHI 142 INTRODUCTION TO LOGIC
Introduction : Business of Logic; Sentential Connectives; Interdefinebility and Dependencies Between Propositions; Decision Procedures; Techniques of Proof construction; Introduction To Predicate Logic; Arguments involving General Propositions; Relational Propositions and Relational Arguments; Identity and Definite Description; Property variables and Properties of properties; Formal Deductive systems and their Properties.

PSY 151 INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY
Psychological Perspectives and Approaches; Perception; Learning; Memory; Higher Cognitive Processes; Motivation and Emotion; Intelligence; Personality; Individual Differences

PSY 152 APPLICATION OF PSYCHOLOGY TO LIFE
Nature and scope of applied psychology; historical perspective; areas of applied psychology, Roles and skills of applied psychologists; ethical issues in applied psychology, Clinical and counselling psychology, Educational psychology, Community psychology and mental health, Ecological Psychology, Industrial and organizational psychology, Legal Psychology

Course Structure Humanities and Social Sciences UG Level 1Program IIT Kanpur

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