Department of Philosophy

Monthly Study Circle Program of Indian Council of Philosophical Research (ICPR), New Delhi, department of Philosophy, Aligarh Muslim University organized an online Lecture

Monthly Study Circle Program of Indian Council of Philosophical Research (ICPR), New Delhi, Department of Philosophy, Aligarh Muslim University organized an online Lecture

Monthly Study Circle Program of Indian Council of Philosophical Research (ICPR), New Delhi, Department of Philosophy, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, organized an online Lecture

Monthly Study Circle Program of Indian Council of Philosophical Research (ICPR), New Delhi, department of Philosophy, Aligarh Muslim University organized an online Lecture

The Department of Philosophy, Aligarh Muslim University today observed the 'World Philosophy Day' as declared by UNESCO at the Faculty of Arts Lounge

The Department of Philosophy, Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) celebrated World Philosophy Day with a national symposium on Interreligious Understanding at the Faculty of Arts Lounge in AMU.

The commoditisation of education will lead to destruction of excellence, reason, epistemic exteriority and the institutes will become bastions of patriarchy, casteism, ruthless discipline and its product will simply be commodities neatly packaged for the market, said Emeritus Professor Prabhat Patnaik, JNU while delivering an extension lecture on The Commoditisation of Higher Education, at the Department of Philosophy, Aligarh Muslim University.

The Department of Philosophy carried out a Plantation Campaign on 5th June, 2018. Prof. Latif Hussain Shah Kazmi, Mr. Zaid Ahmad Siddiqui, Mr. Shahidul Hoque, Research Scholars and M.A students participated in the campaign.

The Department prepared an Action Plan on ‘Vigilance Awareness Week’ and organized activities during 30.10.2018 to 04.11.2018.

: "We must try to efface the causes of conflict rather than striving for resolving the conflicts. At the outset, the causes are to be spotted and a sustained effort is to be made to remove all that produces the conflict. Aiming at conflict resolution alone is nothing more than a fire-fighting operation. It cannot spell enduring peace", said Mr Tushar Gandhi, eminent author and the great grandson of Mahatama Gandhi, while delivering the keynote address in a two-day national seminar on "Gandhian Perspective on Alternative Dispute Resolution" organized by the Department of Philosophy, in collaboration with the Indialogue Foundation and Gandhi Smriti and Darshan Samiti, New Delhi at the Aligarh Muslim University today.

Chinese Philosophy and Indo-Chinese relations expert, Prof Jia Haitao (Director, Institute for Chindian Studies, Jinan University, China) today delivered a lecture on 'Ownership issues in Marxism: Theory and its practices' in which he discussed ownership as an organizational principle that sets norms and fundamentals of a society. His lecture was a part of a two-lecture series organized by the Department of Philosophy, Aligarh Muslim University (AMU).

: Prof Mary Evans, Professor Emeritus, London School of Economics, UK, said that 'right to autonomy and freedom' is the most important right to be given to women for their empowerment and self assertion. She said that a citizen as a person was gender-neutral and it did not entail a fractured idea of being masculine. She stressed that as citizen women enjoy same rights including that of education, adult suffrage and medical attendance as her masculine counterpart.

The Department of Philosophy, AMU, Aligarh organized “Swacchata hi Seva Campaign” on the occasion of 150th Gandhi Jayanti - 2019. The department prepared an Action Plan and organized activities such as Plantation Drive, Swachhata Awareness Campaign and ART MELA; a drawing competition for school children

The Department of Philosophy observed Swachhta Pakhwada on 25th of January, 2020. An internal team of the Department is formed by Chairperson to lead all the activities under the ‘Swachhta Pakhwada’ mission. The Department with its all faculty members and students (M.A & Research Scholars) took ‘Swachhta Pledge’ at morning 11 a.m. on 25th Jan, 2020 in front of the Faculty of Arts, to keep the department clean and green