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26Meaning, Experience, and UnderstandingInternational Philosophical Quarterly 23 (3): 291-302. 1983.
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26Engaging the students of technology in an ethical discourse in the information age: thoughts of Wiener and GandhiAcm Sigcas Computers and Society 40 (3): 62-71. 2010.This paper is about making the ethical discourse relevant to the students of technology in the present age of information. Information ethics is already a part of the present day engagement with information technology at all levels. This encourages us to carry forward the ethical discourse further by bringing in the moral thoughts of Wiener and Gandhi. Both Wiener and Gandhi lived in the age of technology, but both rebelled against it for basically moral reasons. Wiener is the founder of cyberne…Read more
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15Recent developments in analytic philosophyMunshiram Manoharlal Publishers. 2001.Description: The book presents a systematic view of the landmark developments in analytic philosophy in the twentieth century. It highlights the development of the concepts such as language, meaning, truth, reference, necessity, analyticity, etc. which have been central to analytic philosophy. The book consists of four parts, namely: Part I The Linguistic Revolution; Part II The Logic of Language; Part III The Primacy of the Semantical and Part IV Language, Mind and Metaphysics. Part I discusses…Read more
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14Mind, Meaning and World: A Transcendental PerspectiveSpringer Singapore. 2019.The present book intends to approach the problem of mind, meaning and consciousness from a non-naturalist or transcendental point of view. The naturalization of consciousness has reached a dead-end. There can be no proper solution to the problem of mind within the naturalist framework. This work intends to reverse this trend and bring back the long neglected transcendental theory laid down by Kant and Husserl in the West and Vedanta and Buddhism in India. The novelty of this approach lies in how…Read more
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14Spirituality, Pragmatism, Vedanta and Universal Consciousness: A Study of the Philosophy of R. BalasubramanianIn Ananta Kumar Giri (ed.), Pragmatism, Spirituality and Society: New Pathways of Consciousness, Freedom and Solidarity, Springer Singapore. pp. 89-102. 2021.In this paper an attempt has been made to understand the nature of spirituality and spiritual consciousness in the philosophy of Professor R. Balasubramanian, an eminent Advaitic thinker of our times. He not only expounded the intricate philosophy of Advaita but also developed his own spiritual philosophy that encompasses a complete view of man and the world. Professor Balasubramanian derives his philosophical insights from Vedanta in general and Advaita Vedanta in particular. Besides, he is inf…Read more
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14Philosophy of meaning and representationD.K. Printworld. 1996.The Book Focuses On Meaning And Linguistic Representations , And Links Them To Propose A Representational Theory Of Meaning. It Shows That Meaning As Truth-Conditions And As Justification-Conditions Are Equally Rooted In The Semantic Space Of Language-Use.
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10The great mirror: an essay on Wittgenstein's TractatusMunshiram Manoharlal Publishers. 2007.Description: This book proposes to examine the central doctrines of Wittgenstein's Tractatus from a transcendental point of view. The book brings Wittgenstein's thought closer to that of the Vedanta by showing that Wittgenstein echoes the Vedantic idea that the ultimate reality is beyond language and intellect.
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10Enakshi Ray Mitra: Later Wittgenstein on Language and Mathematics: A Non-foundational Narration: Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, 2017, 351 pp, Rs. 745/- (review)Journal of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research 36 (1): 211-214. 2019.
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9Language and mind (edited book)Decent Books. 2006.Contributed articles presented at the National Seminar on Language and Mind held at Hyderabad in 2004.
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7Philosophy, culture, and value: essays on the thoughts of G.C. Pande (edited book)Indian Council of Philosophical Research. 2008.Govind Chandra Pande, b. 1923, Indian philosopher and historian; contributed articles.
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6The Early Philosophy of Daya KrishnaSpringer Singapore. 2021.This book deals with the philosophy of Daya Krishna, an Indian philosopher of the twentieth century. It discusses the central issues in Daya Krishna’s early philosophy as a synthesis of the Indian and Western philosophical methods. It presents problems of the past and the present in a holistic frame of creative philosophizing. It provides a glimpse into the issues human beings face in all vital areas of human civilization. It discusses the nature of philosophy and the philosophical method in Day…Read more
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6The challenges of Postmodernism (edited book)Indian Institute of Advanced Study. 2014.Papers presented at the National Seminar on "The Challenges of Postmodernism", hosted by the Department of Philosophy, University of Hyderabad during 28-30 March 2006.
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6Philosophy of Wittgenstein: Indian responses (edited book)D.K. Printworld. 2001.Papers presented in a National Seminar on "Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Language", held in Feb. 24-26, 1999, at Hyderabad, India.
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4Linguistic representations: the road ahead (edited book)Decent Books. 2012.Papers presented at a seminar held in 2011 organized by the Department of Philosophy, University of Hyderabad.
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2Mind and World: From Soft Naturalism to Anti-naturalismJournal of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research 33 (1): 1-22. 2016.This paper seeks to move from soft naturalism to anti-naturalism with regard to the understanding of mind and the world. John McDowell has already laid down the groundwork of soft naturalism or limited naturalism in his framework of understanding of the relation between mind and the world. McDowell’s argument is based on his commitment to some form of naturalism as against what he calls “bald naturalism.” His form of naturalism is derived from his idea of “second nature,” which places the space …Read more
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Wittgenstein and the Availability of a Transcendental CritiqueIndian Philosophical Quarterly 19 (3): 153. 1992.
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N. G. Kulkarni: Philosophical Reasoning: Critical Essays, Edited by Geeta Ramana: Suryodaya Books, New Delhi, 2015, 427 pp, price: Rs. 1200.00Journal of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research 34 (1): 187-191. 2017.
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Transcendental Subjectivity Meets Transcendental GrammarIndian Philosophical Quarterly 21 (2): 173. 1994.