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Philosophy Syllabus for APSC Civil Services (Prelims) examination. Candidates can choose Philosophy as optional subject for the Preliminary round of  APSC Combined Competitive Examination. Find below the full Philosophy Syllabus for APSC Assam Civil Services Prelims examination.

Philosophy Syllabus for APSC (Prelims):

PART – I
GENERAL PHILOSOPHY (WESTERN AND INDIAN) :

• Nature and Scope and Branches of Philosophy.
• Methods of Philosophy.
• Rationalism and Empiricism as theories of origin of knowledge.
• The correspondence theory and the coherence theory of truth.
• Realism, Nave and Scientific.
• Idealism – subjective and objective.
• Categories : Substances space time and casualty
• Proofs of the existence of God.
• Purusha, Prakriti and causation.

PART – II
LOGIC :

• Logic as the study of reflective thinking.
• Laws of thought.
• Proposition – traditional and modern analysis, Traditional and modern classifications of propositions.
• Conversion, obversion, contraposition and inversion.
• Structure, characteristics, definition, figures, mood and Rules of categorical syllogism.
• Hypothetical and disjunctive syllogisms and dilemmas.
• Testing syllogism.
• Inductive inference and its relation to deduction.
• Analogical Inference.
• Mill’s Inductive methods.
• Law of uniformity of nature and law of causation.
• Conditions, Verification and importance of Hypothesis in scientific enquiry.

PSYCHOLOGY :

• Definition, Scope and Utility of psychology.
• Introspection and experiment as methods of psychology.
• Nature, kinds and the water – Fechner Law of Sensations.
• Kinds of imagination – Imageless thinking.
• Conditions of memory and forgetting.
• Nature and grounds of belief.
• Analysis, kinds and theories of emotion.
• Definition, conditions and characteristics of attention.
• Nature of intelligence and intelligence quotient.
• Definition and theories of learning.

PART – III
ETHICS AND SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY :

• Definition and Scope of Ethics.
• Moral and non-moral action.
• Moral judgement and its object.
• Rigourism and different forms of hedonism.
• Theories of punishment.
• Nature and Scope of Social philosophy.
• The Social Nature of Man.
• Relation between individual and society.
• Family as a social institution.
• Religion as cohesive social factor.
• Caste system and Varnasramadharma.

 

4 comments in “Philosophy Syllabus for APSC Combined Competitive Exam (Prelims)”

• Bijoy Kumar Das on Mar 03, 2016 at 12:44 pm

  Why it is needed to study the part of Psychology in Preliminary exam; whereas in main exam it is avoided as the inclusive one in Philosophy?

• Dr. Ritumoni Nath on Nov 07, 2013 at 3:19 pm

  In philosophy there was a paper of Psychology before long years. But now psychology is a diffetent branch of study and the student of philisophy does not require to study this part. But still psychology is recommended in the APSC syllabus. Its the right time to change the syllabus according to the degree cources.

  Thanks

• Assam on Oct 28, 2013 at 3:39 pm

  Hi,

  The question paper will of B.A. standard. So, refer text books of B.A. and Philosophy books recommended for IAS.
  Some suggestions:

  Introduction to Logic: I. M. Copi, Carl Cohen
  An Introduction to Indian Philosophy: Dutta and Chatterjee
  Indian Philosophy – A Popular Introduction: D. P. Chattopadhyaya
  A History of Philosophy: F. Thilly
  Introduction to Ethics: William Lillie
  Manual of Ethics: J. N. Sinha

  All the best.

• debjani mukherjee on Oct 28, 2013 at 12:32 pm

  Sir, please refeer some books on subject as philosophy for the prelims exam of APSC.

  Thanking you

  Debjani Mukherjee