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    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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    An Operational Notion of Classicality Based on Physical Principles
    Foundations 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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    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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    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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    Bargaining for assembly
    with Dhritiman Gupta
    Theory 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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    Participation of Muslim Female Students in Online Education: A Survey
    with Mayurakshee Gangopadhyay, Shreyosi Chatterjee, Rini Patra, and Jayita Ash
    International 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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    Remembering Richard Lewontin
    with Stuart A. Newman, Peter Godfrey-Smith, Daniel L. Hartl, Philip Kitcher, Diane B. Paul, John Beatty, Elliott Sober, and William C. Wimsatt
    Biological Theory 16 (4): 257-267. 2021.
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    Genetics and Reductionism
    Cambridge 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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    Background 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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    Effects of Diazepam on Reaction Times to Stop and Go
    with Supriyo Choudhury, Nazrul Islam, Mohammad Shah Jahirul Hoque Chowdhury, Md Tauhidul Islam Chowdhury, Mark R. Baker, Stuart N. Baker, and Hrishikesh Kumar
    Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 14. 2020.
  • Revisiting the Foundations of Relativistic Physics. Festschrift in Honour of John Stachel (edited book)
    with Abhay Ashtekar, Jürgen Renn, Don Howard, and Abner Shimony
    Kluwer Academic Publishers. 2002.
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    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
  • Introduction
    with Ben Minteer
    In Ben A. Minteer & Sahotra Sarkar (eds.), A Sustainable Philosophy—the Work of Bryan Norton, Springer Verlag. 2018.
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    Restricted Interval Valued Neutrosophic Sets and Restricted Interval Valued Neutrosophic Topological Spaces
    with Anjan Mukherjee and Mithun Datta
    Neutrosophic Sets and Systems 12 45-53. 2016.
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  • The Concept of Man and Nature in Marxism
    Indian Philosophical Quarterly 17 (1): 49. 1990.
  • The Poet & the Seer
    Papyrus. 1982.
  • Mental health law and mentally disorder offender
    In Annie Bartlett & Gillian McGauley (eds.), Forensic Mental Health: Concepts, Systems, and Practice, Oxford University Press. 2009.
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    Social factors in clinical complexity: reflections from a paediatric unit
    with Dipankar Sarkar
    Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice 16 (3): 427-430. 2010.
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    Implications of Space-Time Foam for Entanglement Correlations of Neutral Kaons
    Foundations 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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    Subalternité et histoire globale
    with Déborah Cohen and Urs Lindner
    Actuel 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
  • Introductory Note to the Contributions by Sarkar and Thaler
    with D. S. Thaler
    Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 183 185-186. 1996.
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    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