MGT 701: Philosophy of Administrative Sciences This course aims at familiarizing the students with the area of philosophy

of knowledge with an emphasis on philosophy of behavioral and social sciences. The course would start with the discussion of the fields of epistemology and ontology. The history of both would be traced and connected with the works of ancient Greek philosophers. It would then move on the development of Natural Philosophy, Metaphysics and emergence and development of science. It would then go on to look at the domain of logic and distinction between scientific and philosophical logic. This would be followed by the detailed look at positivism, interpretivism, realism and post-modernism. The course would end with the detailed look at the articulation of the aforementioned epistemological positions with the history and developments in the theoretical paradigms within management sciences from Taylors philosophy of management through administrative management theories human resource movement and behavioral perspective to the contingency theory