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19That was the Philosophy of Biology that was: Mainx, Woodger, Nagel, and Logical Empiricism, 1929–1961Biological Theory 18 (3): 153-174. 2023.This article is a systematic critical survey of work done in the philosophy of biology within the logical empiricist tradition, beginning in the 1930s and until the end of the 1950s. It challenges a popular view that the logical empiricists either ignored biology altogether or produced analyses of little value. The earliest work on the philosophy of biology within the logical empiricist corpus was that of Philipp Frank, Ludwig von Bertalanffy, and Felix Mainx. Mainx, in particular, provided a de…Read more
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8An Operational Notion of Classicality Based on Physical PrinciplesFoundations of Physics 53 (2): 1-16. 2023.One of the basic observations of the classical world is that physical entities are real and can be distinguished from each other. However, within quantum theory, the idea of physical realism is not well established. A framework to analyse how observations in experiments can be described using some physical states of reality was recently developed, known as ontological models framework. Different principles when imposed on the ontological level give rise to different theories, the validity of whi…Read more
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4Kaliyuga, cākari, bhakti, Rāmakr̥shṇa o tām̐ra samaẏaSeribāna. 2002.Study on religious and social values of people as influenced by the philosophical views of Ramakrishna, 1836-1886 in his time.
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2Mahāyāna Buddhism: Literature, Language and the Ramification (edited book)The Asiatic Society. 2014.
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43Husserl's role in Carnap's der raumIn Thomas Bonk (ed.), Language, Truth and Knowledge: Contributions to the Philosophy of Rudolf Carnap, Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 179-190. 2003.By now it has become commonplace to note that the early Carnap was strongly influenced by Kant and the neo-Kantianism of his day.1 As early as 1977 Haack noted some striking similarities between the Aufbau and the first Critique; since then, Haack’s observation has been underscored by documenting the explicit role of the neo-Kantians in Carnap’s early education and intellectual development.2 Whether or not Carnap in the Aufbau was at all interested in traditional empiricism, or even strongly inf…Read more
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13Bargaining for assemblyTheory and Decision 95 (2): 229-254. 2023.We study a multilateral bargaining problem, where the buyer intends to purchase a subset of available items, each owned by a seller. The subset purchased must satisfy a notion of contiguity, which is modeled using graphs. The graph theoretic approach allows us to study different degrees of complementarity and substitutability between items. It also allows us to examine how degrees of complementarity and substitutability affect the share of surplus obtained by the buyer in the equilibrium of the …Read more
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2Participation of Muslim Female Students in Online Education: A SurveyInternational Journal of Islamic Khazanah 12 (1): 53-60. 2022.Contemporary India is a primitive, patriarchal society of various feudal tribes. When we refer to caste in Considering the education system to be secular in the sense, when dealing with minority participation, we must bear in mind the debate expressed by Irfan Ahmed that “the characterization of minorities is not just numbers but a comparative and powerless position vis-a-vis the majority community in a given government”. Socio-religious issues dominate the understanding of minority female stude…Read more
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20Genetics and ReductionismCambridge University Press. 2012.With the advent of the Human Genome Project there have been many claims for the genetic origins of complex human behavior including insanity, criminality, and intelligence. But what does it really mean to call something 'genetic'? This is the fundamental question that Sahotra Sarkar's book addresses. The author analyses the nature of reductionism in classical and molecular genetics. He shows that there are two radically different kinds of reductionist explanation: genetic reduction (as found in …Read more
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15Background and rationale Clinicians often encounter a variety of ethical challenges in their routine clinical practice, and it varies across healthcare and cultural settings of their practice. Despite of this, there are no clear-cut available guidelines concerning the right course of action in a given ethically challenging situation. A validated instrument that could capture the health care providers’ viewpoints in this regard is lacking from Indian settings. Thus, the current study aimed at dev…Read more
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Revisiting the Foundations of Relativistic Physics. Festschrift in Honour of John Stachel (edited book)Kluwer Academic Publishers. 2002.
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7The Philosophy of Science 2-Volume Set: An Encyclopedia (edited book)Routledge. 2005.The first in-depth reference in the field that combines scientific knowledge with philosophical inquiry, _The Philosophy of Science: An Encyclopedia_ is a two-volume set that brings together an international team of leading scholars to provide over 130 entries on the essential concepts in the philosophy of science. _The areas covered include:_ biology chemistry epistemology and metaphysics physics psychology and mind the social sciences key figures in the combined studies of science and philosop…Read more
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IntroductionIn Ben A. Minteer & Sahotra Sarkar (eds.), A Sustainable Philosophy—the Work of Bryan Norton, Springer Verlag. 2018.
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The Ito Formalism and Stochastic Modifications of Quantum DynamicsBoston Studies in the Philosophy of Science. forthcoming.
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8Several Similarity Measures of Interval Valued Neutrosophic Soft Sets and Their Application in Pattern Recognition ProblemsNeutrosophic Sets and Systems 6 55-61. 2014.
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2Restricted Interval Valued Neutrosophic Sets and Restricted Interval Valued Neutrosophic Topological SpacesNeutrosophic Sets and Systems 12 45-53. 2016.
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4A method of measuring similarity between two neutrosophic soft sets and its application in pattern recognition problemsNeutrosophic Sets and Systems 8 63-68. 2015.
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15Ethical Issues Relating to Faith Healing Practices in South Asia: A Medical PerspectiveJournal of Clinical Research and Bioethics 5 (4). 2014.
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Legal models and treatment approaches for the mentally disordered offender: United States of AmericaIn Annie Bartlett & Gillian McGauley (eds.), Forensic Mental Health: Concepts, Systems, and Practice, Oxford University Press. 2009.
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Mental health law and mentally disorder offenderIn Annie Bartlett & Gillian McGauley (eds.), Forensic Mental Health: Concepts, Systems, and Practice, Oxford University Press. 2009.
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32Social factors in clinical complexity: reflections from a paediatric unitJournal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 16 (3): 427-430. 2010.
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52Implications of Space-Time Foam for Entanglement Correlations of Neutral KaonsFoundations of Physics 40 (7): 978-1003. 2010.The role of CPT invariance and consequences for bipartite entanglement of neutral (K) mesons are discussed. A relaxation of CPT leads to a modification of the entanglement which is known as the ω effect. The relaxation of assumptions required to prove the CPT theorem are examined within the context of models of space-time foam. It is shown that the evasion of the EPR type entanglement implied by CPT (which is connected with spin statistics) is rather elusive. Relaxation of locality (through non-…Read more
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38Subalternité et histoire globaleActuel Marx 50 (2): 207-217. 2011.Sumit Sarkar, one of the leading Indian historians of his generation, participated in the Indian-British Subaltern Studies Collective that established new standards in the historiography of colonialism in the 1980’s. In this Interview, Déborah Cohen and Urs Lindner ask him about the achievements and oversights of the Subaltern Studies project, the prospects of global history, Marx’s eurocentrism and the problem of religion
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Introductory Note to the Contributions by Sarkar and ThalerBoston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 183 185-186. 1996.
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18Industrial Social Work to Corporate Social Responsibility: A Transformation of PriorityJournal of Human Values 14 (1): 31-48. 2008.The transformation from industrial social work to corporate social responsibility points out a definite shift in the realm of social work vis-á-vis goal, objective and priorities of business. Over the past several decades social workers around the world have successfully been able to integrate with the modern production and business processes, particularly in addressing the emergent needs of the industrial population like those arising out of the psychosocial impact of workforce alienation, over…Read more