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IGNOU MPYE-14 (December 2025 – June 2026) Assignment Questions
1. What is apohavada? How does Apohavada reject realist understanding of the relation between language and world? .
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What is ling in Samkhya school? How does the concept of ling (union of purusa and prakriti) address Mind-Body Problem? Do you think that Samkhya school successfully resolved mindbody problem.
2. Explain Descartes’ mind-body dualism (Cartesian Mind Body dualism). Do you think Descartes successfully resolved mind-body problem? Give reasons to support your answer.
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What is Language? “Language is a contingent system of symbols which accidentally develops in the human community.” Give your view on this statement with arguments.
3. Answer any two questions in about 250 words each.
a) What are the presuppositions of Sphotavada? Discuss.
b) Examine phenomenological approach to address mind-body problem.
c) “Mind and Language are inter-connected.” Explain and evaluate.
d) Write a note on the relation between memory and remembering?
4. Answer any four questions in about 150 words each.
a) Examine Gilbert Ryle’s objection against Cartesian Mind Body Dualism.
b) Discuss the idea of Intentionality.
c) Write a note on the role of Antahkarana (Inner Physical Instrument) in the theory of knowledge.
d) Discuss the idea of Category Error/Mistake.
e) Critically analyze the idea of emotional mind.
f) What is ‘lived body’?
5. Write short notes on any five in about 100 words each.
a) Substance Dualism
b) Innate Structure of Language
c) Physicalism
d) Emotion
e) Volition
f) Reason
g) Behaviorism
h) Epiphenomenalism
IGNOU MPYE-14 (July 2024 – January 2025) Assignment Questions
1. Critically evaluate the view that Language is a contingent system of symbols which accidentally develops in the human community.
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Explain Descartes’ mind-body dualism (Cartesian Mind Body dualism). Do you think Descartes successfully resolved mind-body problem? Give reasons to support your answer.
2. What is ‘lived body’? Explain and examine phenomenological approach to address mind body problem.
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How Samkhya define Purusa and Prakriti? How does the concept of ling (union of purusa and prakriti) address Mind Body Problem?
3. Answer any two questions in about 250 words each.
a) What are the presuppositions of Sphotavada? Discuss..
b) Compare Hume’s and Russell’s view on the role of memory in remembering.
c) Write an essay on the nature of memory.
d) Write an essay on the Wittgenstein’s account of understanding.
4. Answer any four questions in about 150 words each.
a) Write a note on the John Locke’s idea of complex ideas.
b) Discuss the idea of Intentionality.
c) Examine Gilbert Ryle’s objection against Cartesian Mind Body Dualism.
d) What are the metaphysical assumptions behind the idea of volition?
e) “Understanding is a process” Analyze.
f) How does Kant define perception? Discuss.
5. Write short notes on any five in about 100 words each.
a) Emotional Mind
b) Volition
c) Reason
d) Antahkarana (Inner Physical Instrument)
e) Epiphenomenalism
f) Intentionality
g) Brain
h) Behaviorism
