UGC NET Philosophy — Paper 2, subject code 03

All ten units are written, in 30 chapters: five for Unit 1, Classical Indian Epistemology and Metaphysics (the Vedas, Upaniṣads, Cārvāka and Jainism; Buddhism and its schools; Nyāya and Vaiśeṣika; Sāṃkhya, Yoga and Pūrva-Mīmāṃsā; the five schools of Vedānta); four each for Unit 2, Classical Western (the Greeks; medieval philosophy and the rationalists; the empiricists; Kant and Hegel) and Unit 6, Recent Western (Frege, logical positivism, Moore and Russell; Wittgenstein, Ryle, Ayer, Quine, Grice and Strawson; phenomenology and existentialism; pragmatism and post-modernism); three each for Unit 5, Contemporary Indian (seventeen thinkers in three groups), Unit 8, Western Social and Political Philosophy, and Unit 9, Logic (traditional logic; propositional logic; quantification, axiomatic systems, fallacies and induction); and two for each other unit. Every unit carries a title after a colon, recorded above in the document's words; the only change is that the stray space before the second colon in Unit 2's title ("Modern : Epistemology") has been closed. Unit 9 is formal logic and is taught by working problems: truth tables, the shorter truth-table method, syllogisms by mood and figure with the rules and their fallacies, the traditional and Boolean squares, the nine rules of inference and ten of replacement, and the four quantifier rules with their restrictions, with every answer worked. The document uses IAST transliteration with extraction damage. Where it shows a Greek letter in place of ñ, in yajña, Patañjali, jñātatā, jñānasvarūpa and sthitaprajña, that is damage in the extracted text, not the NET Bureau's spelling, and the registry normalises it to ñ; every other word is recorded as printed, including "ćitta" (citta), "Āstangika" (Aṣṭāṅgika), "kṣaṇabhahgavāda" (kṣaṇabhaṅgavāda), "paramaṇukaraṇavāda" (paramāṇukāraṇavāda), "Anirvachniya-khyāti" (anirvacanīya-khyāti), "Dvaitavaita" (Dvaitādvaita, Nimbārka), "Sudhadvaita" (Śuddhādvaita, Vallabha), "Susupti" (suṣupti) and "Brahmaṇ" (brahman). The chapters use correct IAST in English and proper Devanagari in Hindi (यज्ञ, पतंजलि, चित्त, क्षणभंगवाद). The document's typographical errors are quoted as printed and taught correctly: "Anaximenies" as Anaximenes; "Leibnitz" as Leibniz, an older accepted spelling; "solipcism" as solipsism; "Morleau-Ponty" as Maurice Merleau-Ponty; "Immanuel Levinas" as Emmanuel Levinas; "Genealogy of Moral" as Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morals; "Mean and ends" in the Kant item as means and ends; "Socio – Ethnical perspective of Mahima Dharma" as socio-ethical; "Satyagrah" as satyagraha; and "non-technology" in Unit 10, an evident misprint for nanotechnology, the third of the new technologies routinely paired with information technology and biotechnology. One listing is an anomaly rather than a typo: the document gives Moore the item "Distinction between Sense and Reference". That distinction is Frege's (Über Sinn und Bedeutung, 1892) and is listed under Frege as well; the chapters teach it under Frege and, under Moore, teach Moore's own work (the refutation of idealism, the defence of common sense, the proof of an external world and his analysis of sense-data), attributing no doctrine of sense and reference to him. Varṇāśrama is expounded as the classical doctrine the texts state, the critiques of caste by Ambedkar, Phule and Narayana Guru are taught in their own terms, contemporary figures such as Deendayal Upadhyaya are given a neutral account of their stated ideas, and Unit 10's medical and media ethics (abortion, euthanasia, surrogacy, pornography) is presented as positions and arguments, not advocacy, with Indian statutes such as the Surrogacy (Regulation) Act, 2021 cited only as facts. The overlap with material already on this platform was scoped precisely: Units 7 and 8 and parts of Unit 5 touch NET Political Science's Western and Indian political thought chapters (Plato, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Marx and Rawls; Kautilya, Gandhi, Ambedkar and others); the Indian and Western schools of Units 1, 2 and 6 touch NET Education's philosophy-of-education chapter (Sāṃkhya-Yoga, Vedānta, Buddhism, Jainism; idealism, realism, pragmatism, existentialism); Units 1, 3 and 5 touch NET Psychology's chapter on the Gītā, Buddhism, Sufism and Integral Yoga; Unit 5's Gandhi and Ambedkar touch NET Sociology's Indian thinkers chapter; Unit 4's theories of punishment and Unit 10's legal ethics touch NET Law's jurisprudence chapters; Unit 7's Kauṭilya touches NET Public Administration's classical-thought chapter; and Unit 9 and the Nyāya pramāṇas touch the Paper-1 logical reasoning and Indian logic chapters. Each was checked against those chapters and written independently at a philosophy postgraduate's depth from this document's own list, through the arguments, objections and inter-school debates; nothing is adapted or reworded. Units 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6, and most of Units 9 and 10, have no equivalent elsewhere on the platform at this depth.