Thursday, August 25, 2011

SPPIS Newsletter 25th August 2011

SPPIS Newsletter 25th August 2011

Dear Sir/Madam,
Greetings from SPPIS, Haryana and welcome new members. Here are some updates:

The Positive Philosophy

List of Institutions having Philosophy in Punjab

http://niyamakphilosophy.blogspot.com/2011/08/list-of-instituions-having-philosophy.html

Interdisciplinary Studies

Doing Research With Undergraduates by Brian Taylor

http://niyamakreference.blogspot.com/2011/08/doing-research-with-undergraduates-by.html

1st RADHAKRISHNAN MEMORIAL LECTURE

http://newsphilosophy.wordpress.com/

National Level Essay Competition for Students

http://positivephilosophy.webs.com/

CORRUPTION by Francis Lobo

http://milestone02.wordpress.com/2011/08/25/corruption-by-francis-lobo/

With regards,
Dr. Desh Raj Sirswal,
Society for Positive Philosophy and Interdisciplinary Studies (SPPIS),Haryana
http://sppish.blogspot.com

National Level Essay Competition for Students

To celebrate the Teacher’s Day

Centre for Positive Philosophy and Interdisciplinary Studies (CPPIS), Milestone Education Society (Regd.) Pehowa (Kurukshetra)-136128

Organizes

National Level Essay Competition for Students

on the theme

“Problems in Contemporary Indian Society”

Indian society is multifaceted to an extent perhaps unknown in any other of the world's great civilizations. Virtually no generalization made about Indian society is valid for all of the nation's multifarious groups. Comprehending the complexities of Indian social structure has challenged scholars and other observers over many decades. This Essay Competition concentrates on socio-political issues and a tribute to Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888-1975) an academic, philosopher, and statesman and was one of the most recognized and influential Indian thinkers in academic circles in the 20th century. This Essay Competition provides an opportunity to think over some basic concepts of Indian society as well as motivate students to find out solution for future.

Subthemes:

  • Teacher-Student Relationship: An Indian Outlook
  • Need of Spiritualistic Outlook in Human Life
  • Effect of Westernization on Indian Society
  • The Concept of Peace and Globalization in Indian Culture
  • Students’ participation in Socio-Political Issues
  • Women in 21st Century: Issues and Future Perspectives
  • Dalit-Discrimination in Indian Culture and Indian Scriptures
  • Reservation Policy as a Socio-Political Issue
  • Will India ever leave the Caste-Discrimination issue in upcoming years?
  • Philosophy of Liberation with Special reference to Dalits

Eligibility: Graduate from any stream or undergraduate student.

Last Date of Submission: 5th September 2011

Procedure: Essays between 2500-3000 words, neatly written or typed in Hindi or English language, reached to the undersigned till 5th September 2011 or email to mses.02@gmail.com.

Benefits of Participation:

Selected candidate will be provided a merit certificate with a prize and essay will be published in an online publication of the Centre.

For further details contact:

Dr Desh Raj Sirswal

Department of Philosophy,

P.G.Govt. College for Girls,

Sector-11, Chandigarh (India)

Email:mses.02@gmail.com

Contact Number-09896848775, 08968544048

http://positivephilosophy.webs.com

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Call for Papers

Lokāyata: Journal of Positive Philosophy

The Center for Positive Philosophy and Interdisciplinary Studies (CPPIS) starts a bi-annual interdisciplinary journal from 2011. The name Lokāyata can be traced to Kautilya's Arthashastra, which refers to three ānvīkikīs (logical philosophies), Yoga, Samkhya and Lokāyata. Lokāyata here still refers to logical debate (disputatio, "criticism") in general and not to a materialist doctrine in particular. The objectives of the journal are to encourage new thinking on concepts and theoretical frameworks in the disciplines of humanities and social sciences to disseminate such new ideas and research papers (with strong emphasis on modern implications of philosophy) which have broad relevance in society in general and man’s life in particular. The Centre will publish two issues of the journal every year. Each regular issue of the journal will contain full-length papers, discussions and comments, book reviews, information on new books and other relevant academic information. Each issue will contain about 100 Pages.

Theme of Present Issue:

Problems in Contmeporary Indian Society

The first issue will appear in the end of the September, 2011.

Instructions to the Contributors

The article should be typewritten preferably in Times New Roman font with 12 sizes (English) and Kruti Dev font with 14 sizes (Hindi) in MS-Word 2003 and should be between 3000 to 5000 words. They should be typed on one side of the paper, double spaced with ample margins, and contain author(s)/contributor's name and his/her institutional affiliation along with the complete mailing address. An abstract of 150-200 words should be included. The authors should submit the hard copy alongwith a CD or as an e-mail attachment to be sent to dr.sirswal@gmail.com.

Only papers which have not been published elsewhere will be considered. Proofs will be sent to the authors if there if sufficient time to do so.

Time Line: 15th September,2011

Reference Style:

Notes and references should appear at the end of the articles as Notes. Arrange references in alphabetical order by the last name of the first author and then by his initials. The following style of reference may be strictly followed:

  • In case of Journal: Authors last name, initials, year of publication, name of the paper, name of the journal (italic), volume number, issue number and page number.
  • In case of a Book: Authors last name, initials, year of publication, title of the book(italic), name of publisher, place of publication and page numbers.
  • In case of an edited Book: Authors last name, initials, year of publication, name of the editor, title of the book (italic), name of publisher, place of publication and page numbers.
  • In case of institution/Govt. Report: full name of the institution/ministry, year of publication, place of publication.

All contributions to the Journal, other editorial enquiries and books for review are to be sent to:

Dr. Desh Raj Sirswal,

Editor, Lokāyata: Journal of Positive Philosophy,

Centre for Positive Philosophy and Interdisciplinary Studies (CPPIS),

Milestone Education Society (Regd), Valmiki Dharmashala, Pehowa,

Distt. Kurukshetra (HARYANA)-136128 (India)

Mobile No.09896848775, 08968544048

E-mail: dr.sirswal@gmail.com, mses.02@gmail.com

Websites: http://lokayatajournal.webs.com

http://drsirswal.webs.com