It may not be a lucrative career option, but for the questioning minds it holds infinite riches. Dr. Vijay Tankha, head of the philosophy department at Delhi University’s St. Stephen’s college, talks about the discipline and lauds the faculty of doubt. Excerpts from an interview: How would you explain the discipline of philosophy to someone who doesn’t know much about it? A standard way of looking at it is that philosophy is a discipline which looks at other disciplines. One of the primary activities of philosophers is to look at a certain set of questions. But a lot of them relate to either the way questions are to be asked, or questions about other disciplines: what is...
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