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INFINITY 2022 - GUEST LECTURE SERIES: 21 FEBRUARY 2021 - POSTGRADUATE CENTRE OF ST. FRANCIS DE SALES COLLEGE
INFINITY 2022, the guest lecture series of the Postgraduate Centre of St Francis De Sales College was
conducted from 21 st February 2022. Psylight Club, Association of The Department of Psychology,
Postgraduate Centre, in association with the research cell conducted the first session on 21 st
February on the topic “Current Status of philosophy of Science”. The session was conducted in the
online platform, Google meet. Around 95 students participated in the session.
The resource person for the workshop was Mr. Premanand V, Associate Professor, Department of
PG Psychology, St Agnes Centre for Postgraduate Studies and Research, Mangalore. Dr Premanand is
the Associate Professor in the Department of PG Psychology, St. Agnes Centre for Post Graduate
Studies and Research (Autonomous), Mangalore. He completed his PhD from Bharathiar University
in the year 2005 on “Academic Achievement in relation to Emotional Intelligence and Probabilistic
Orientation among Engineering Undergraduate Students.” His areas of interest include clinical
psychology, Counselling psychology and positive psychology. He has been ably guiding several PhD
scholars in the
research endeavours. He has many national and international publications as well as book chapters
to his credit.
He started his lecture by explaining what is science and what is philosophy. Philosophy is the study
of the fundamental nature of knowledge, existence and reality, when considered as an academic
discipline. He spoke about the various pillars of philosophy like metaphysics, aesthetics and ethics.
He then went on to discuss about ontology and epistemology of research. Next was a discussion
about the important paradigms in research which are positivism, post positivism and critical theory.
Each of the paradigms were explained in detailed with emphasis on the different methodologies that
are adopted from the paradigms. This was followed by a question-and-answer session for clarifying
the queries of the students.
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