FIKA-F Events
May 2015 FIKA
A ground-breaking, India level Workshop on ‘Fundamental Issues in Knowledge and its Acquisition (FIKA)’, was held in Aligarh Muslim University on 26 – 30 March 2015. As the Report says, the Workshop presented and discussed a critique and plan of rectification of contemporary Learning, particularly Modern Science, that would ensure both the carrying- ahead of the science-driven high standard of life, as well as, the solution of the multifarious crises of environment, civilization and Meaning, besetting this process. The Workshop was attended by faculty members, doctoral scholars and post-graduate students from a wide range of disciplines: Philosophy, Islamic Studies, Psychology, History, Law, English, Education, Mass Communication, Islamic Studies, Unani Medicine, Western Medicine, Physics etc.
The Workshop centre-staged the scheme of Integral Reality: Transcendental, Supra-Material and Physical and the corresponding scheme of Integral Learning: Metaphysics, Cosmology and Sciences. It then identified the place of various Disciplines of the Modern and Traditional streams, within these schemes of Reality and Learning, to characterize the strengths and limitations of each discipline, and the transformations needed for maximizing the strengths and redressing the limitations. The conclusions at the Workshop were adopted as Resolutions
