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A survey of Wittgenstein's theory of meaningPublished under the auspices of Indian Universities Press in association with Scientific Book Agency. 1965.
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1Aristotle's first philosophy in proper perspectiveCentre of Advanced Study in Philosophy, Visva-Bharati. 1968.
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1An essay on John Rawls' theory of distributive justice and its relevance to the Third WorldCentre for Studies in Social Sciences. 1979.
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6Understanding Principia and Tractatus: Russell and Wittgenstein RevisitedInternational Scholars Publications. 1997.A. P. Rao is considered to be one of India's leading, modern philosophers. In this compelling new monograph, he discusses the unique philosophical energies and synergies between Russell and Wittgenstein's seminal works and re-interprets the logical-positivist thrust of language and mathematical philosophy in this century and into the next
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8Understanding Principia and Tractatus: Russell and Wittgenstein revisitedInternational Scholars Publications. 1998.In the first part, the problem which Russell faced (and as an answer to which he proposed his theory) is isolated from several garbled versions of it that came to be taken as issues of his concern. The familiar presumably Russellian solutions offered by others to what was assumed to be his problem, and are claimed to be better than the one offered by him, are shown to be neither Russellian nor better in virtue of their shifting his problematic or in virtue of rejecting his basic presuppositions.
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Manipal Institute of TechnologyRegular Faculty
Areas of Interest
20th Century Philosophy |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |