Philosophy: Recent submissions

  • Hermeneutics in Science 
    Bharne, Madhavi Vasant
  • Repositioning interpretative social science after postmodernism: Understanding, interpretation and self 
    Tharakan, K. (Challenges of Postmodernism, Ed. by: R.C. Pradhan. Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. 2014; 217-236.)
    With the advent of Postmodernism there is a widespread disbelief in the philosophy of the subject. The 'Cogito' that propelled the Modernist conceptions of truth and certainty seems to be no more available with the demise ...
  • Introduction to the Human Rights in India: Theory and Practice 
    Afonso, A.V. (Human Rights in India: Theory and Practice, Ed. By: A.S. Anand and A.V. Afonso. Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. 2011; xxiii-xxxiii)
  • Human Rights in India: Theory and Practice 
    Anand, A.S.; Afonso, A.V. (Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. 2011; 400pp)
  • Superimposition: An ontological perspective 
    VinayKumar, U.A. (Indian Philosophical Quarterly. 24(2); 1997; 177-185)
  • Advaitic language of sublation 
    VinayKumar, U.A. (Language and Mind: The classical Indian perspective, Ed. by: K.S. Prasad. Decent Books, New Delhi. 2008; 101-126)
  • An Indian solution to 'incompleteness' 
    VinayKumar, U.A. (AI and Society. 2009 24(4); 2009; 351-364)
    Kurt Godel's Incompleteness theorem is well known in Mathematics/Logic/Philosophy circles. Godel was able to find a way for any given P (UTM), (read as, "P of UTM" for "Program of Universal Truth Machine"), actually to ...
  • Understanding consciousness as subject-dependent linguistic process 
    Afonso, A.V. (Consciousness, Society and Values, Ed. by: A.V. Afonso. Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. 2006; 70-98)
    The objective of the present paper is to argue for an understanding of consciousness as (a) a "process" that is (b) subject-dependent, and (c)based upon formation/development of language. This, therefore, presupposes the ...
  • Religious assertions: A linguistic approach 
    PaiVernekar, S.D. (Jnanadeep. 14(1); 2011; 61-76)
    Philosophy's task with regard to religion is mainly analytic. The task of philosophy with respect to religion is of a 'second-order' or 'meta', that is philosophy of religion is to religion as meta-ethics is to ethics or ...
  • Illness: A phenomenological perspective 
    PaiVernekar, S.D. (Loyola Journal of Social Sciences. 24(2); 2010; 187-197)
    Phenomenologically viewed, biomedical paradigm of disease (which focuses on the dysfunction of the biological organism) does not provide an adequate account of illness. Hence, illness must be understood not merely in terms ...

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