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21The period of British colonial rule in India is typically regarded as philosophically sterile. Indian philosophy written in English during the British colonial period is often ignored in histories of Indian philosophy, or, when considered explicitly, dismissed either as uncreative or as inauthentic. The late Daya Krishna thought hard about this at the end of his life, and we have been thinking about this in conversation with him. We show that this dismissal is unjustified and that this is a fert…Read more
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Between Abhinavagupta and Daya Krishna : Krishna Chandra Bhattacharyya on the problem of other mindsIn Elise Coquereau-Saouma & Daniel Raveh (eds.), The Making of Contemporary Indian Philosophy: Krishnachandra Bhattacharyya, Routledge. 2023.
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24Māyā and Mokṣa: Krishnachandra Bhattacharyya's Spiritual Philosophy as a Vedāntin Critique of KantPhilosophy East and West 74 (1): 3-25. 2024.Abstract:Subject As Freedom (1930) is correctly regarded as Krishnachandra Bhattacharyya's magnum opus. But this text relies on a set of ideas and develops from a set of concerns that KCB develops more explicitly in essays written both before and after that text, which might be regarded as its intellectual bookends. These ideas are important and fascinating in their own right. They also illuminate KCB's engagement with Kant and with the Vedānta tradition as well as his understanding of freedom i…Read more
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15Minds Without Fear: Philosophy in the Indian RenaissanceOup Usa. 2017.Minds Without Fear is an intellectual and cultural history of India during the period of British occupation. It demonstrates that this was a period of renaissance in India in which philosophy--both in the public sphere and in the Indian universities--played a central role in the emergence of a distinctively Indian modernity. The book is also a history of Indian philosophy. It demonstrates how the development of a secular philosophical voice facilitated the construction of modern Indian society a…Read more
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33Indian Philosophy in English: From Renaissance to Independence (edited book)Oup Usa. 2011.This book publishes, for the first time in decades, and in many cases, for the first time in a readily accessible edition, English language philosophical literature written in India during the period of British rule.
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34Chemical Synthesis: Complexity, Similarity, Natural Kinds, and the Evolution of a "Logic"In Nalini Bhushan & Stuart M. Rosenfeld (eds.), Of Minds and Molecules: New Philosophical Perspectives on Chemistry, Oxford University Press. pp. 187--210. 2000.
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1214. Swaraj and Swadeshi: Gandhi and Tagore on Ethics, Development, and FreedomIn Roger T. Ames Peter D. Hershock (ed.), Value and Values: Economics and Justice in an Age of Global Interdependence, University of Hawaii Press. pp. 259-271. 2015.
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29Lala Lajpat Rai’s Classification of Nationalism: Can It Help Us to Understand Contemporary Nationalist Movements?Sophia 57 (3): 363-374. 2018.India has been independent for 70 years now, and it is a good time to reflect on the political philosophy that underwrote the movement that gained that independence. When we do so, we discover the origins of a political vocabulary that is still in use today, although sadly not used with the same rigor and precision with which it was used then. We also find that those who recur to Indian political thought from the pre-independence period tend to return to a single strand of that thought—the theor…Read more
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Chemical synthesis: Complexity, similarity, natural kinds, and the evolutionof a 'logic'In Nalini Bhushan & Stuart M. Rosenfeld (eds.), Of Minds and Molecules: New Philosophical Perspectives on Chemistry, Oxford University Press. pp. 187-207. 2000.
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31The Possibility of a Radically Different LanguagePhilosophical Investigations 19 (3): 237-263. 1996.
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Of Minds and Molecules: New Philosophical Perspectives on ChemistryPhilosophical Quarterly 53 (211): 301-303. 2003.
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38The texture lexicon: Understanding the categorization of visual texture terms and their relationship to texture imagesCognitive Science 21 (2): 219-246. 1997.
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69Toward an anatomy of mourning: Discipline, devotion and liberation in a Freudian-buddhist frameworkSophia 47 (1): 57-69. 2008.In this essay I first articulate what I take to be an influential and for the most part persuasive model in the western psychoanalytic tradition that is a response to tragic loss, namely, the one that we find in Freud’s little essay entitled ‘Mourning and Melancholia’ (1917). I then use a well-known Buddhist folk tale about the plight of a young woman named Kisagotami to underscore central elements from Buddhist psychology on the subject of suffering that is a consequence of the loss of a young …Read more
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124What is a chemical property?Synthese 155 (3). 2007.Despite the currently perceived urgent need among contemporary philosophers of chemistry for adjudicating between two rival metaphysical conceptual frameworks—is chemistry primarily a science of substances or processes?—this essay argues that neither provides us with what we need in our attempts to explain and comprehend chemical operations and phenomena. First, I show the concept of a chemical property can survive the abandoning of the metaphysical framework of substance. While this abandonment…Read more
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Transcendental Arguments: The Articulation of a Central Paradigm and a Case for Their LegitimacyDissertation, University of Michigan. 1989.My dissertation project addresses the problem of the legitimacy of "transcendental" arguments. This is an old, familiar problem that goes all the way back to Kant and The Critique of Pure Reason. There, for the first time, we have an explicit attempt to define, characterize and develop a distinct kind of argument. This kind of argument was intended to provide a model which could be used to establish the truth of a quite distinctive sort of proposition, the synthetic apriori. ;The task of this di…Read more
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37Of Minds and Molecules: New Philosophical Perspectives on Chemistry (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2000.Of Minds and Molecules is the first anthology devoted exclusively to work in the philosophy of chemistry. The essays, written by both chemists and philosophers, adopt distinctive philosophical perspectives on chemistry and collectively offer both a conceptualization of and a justification for this emerging field.
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35CHAKRABARTI, ARINDAM, ed. The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016, 417 pp., 5 color + 37 b&w illus., $176.00 cloth (review)Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 75 (2): 201-205. 2017.
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16Of Minds and Molecules: New Philosophical Perspectives on Chemistry (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2000.The essays, written by both chemists and philosophers, adopt distinctive philosophical perspectives on chemistry and collectively offer both a conceptualization ...
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21Contrary Thinking: Selected Essays of Daya Krishna (edited book)Oxford University Press USA. 2011.Daya Krishna was easily the most creative and original Indian philosopher of the second half of the 20th century. His thought and philosophical energy dominated academic Indian philosophy and determined the nature of the engagement of Indian philosophy with Western philosophy during that period. He passed away recently, leaving behind an enormous corpus of published work on a wide range of philosophical topics, as well as a great deal of incomplete, nearly-complete and complete-but-as-yet-unpubl…Read more