Realisms Interlinked: Object, Subject and Other Subjects - Hardcover

Chakrabarti, Professor Arindam

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1350044466 ISBN 13: 9781350044463

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

Synopsis

This book brings together over 25 years of Arindam Chakrabarti’s original research in philosophy on issues of epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of mind.

Organized under the three basic concepts of a thing out there in the world, the self who perceives it, and other subjects or selves, his work revolves around a set of realism links. Examining connections between metaphysical stances toward the world, selves, and universals, Chakrabarti engages with classical Indian and modern Western philosophical approaches to a number of live topics including the refutation of idealism; the question of the definability of truth, and the possibility of truths existing unknown to anyone; the existence of non-conceptual perception; and our knowledge of other minds. He additionally makes forays into fundamental questions regarding death, darkness, absence, and nothingness.

Along with conceptual clarification and progress towards alternative solutions to these substantial philosophical problems, Chakrabarti demonstrates the advantage of doing philosophy in a cosmopolitan fashion. Beginning with an analysis of the concept of a thing, and ending with an analysis of the concept of nothing, Realisms Interlinked offers a preview of a future metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophy of mind without borders.

About this title

About the Author

Arindam Chakrabarti, Nirmal and Augustina Mattoo Chair of Classical Indic Humanities, Stony Brook University, USA.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1350044466
• ISBN 13: 9781350044463
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352