UPSC CSE Mains Syllabus of Philosophy | IAS Exams 2015

UPSC CSE Mains Philosophy Syllabus



Paper - I
History and Problems of Philosophy:

1. Plato and Aristotle: Ideas; Substance; Form and Matter; Causation; Actuality
and Potentiality.

2. Rationalism (Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz): Cartesian Method and Certain
Knowledge; Substance; God; Mind-Body Dualism; Determinism and Freedom.

3. Empiricism (Locke, Berkeley, Hume): Theory of Knowledge;