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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.
Contents
PART I: OBJECTS
Introduction
1: I Touch What I Saw
2: Non-particular Individuals
3: On Perceiving Properties
4: Seeing Daffodils, Seeing as Daffodils, and Seeing Things Called 'Daffodils'
5: Truth, Recognition of Truth, and Thoughtless Realism
6: Idealist Refutations of Idealism
7: Externality, Difference and Inherence
8: Is This a Dream?
9: The Object to the Verb: The Case of the Accusative
PART II: SUBJECTS
10: On Referring to the First Person
11: The Self at Other Times and In Other Bodies
12: Does Self Awareness Turn the Self Into an Object?
13: In Defense of an Inner Sense
14: Our Knowledge and Error About Our Own Cognitions
15: Fictionalism About the Mental
16: Nyaya Proofs for the Existence of the Self
PART III: OTHER SUBJECTS
17: Knowing You From the Bridge
18: The Grammar of Calling the Other
19: Knowing From the Words of Others
20: Can Another Person Teach Me What It Means?
21: Shadows of Ignorance
22: Concept Possession, Sense Experience and Knowledge of a Language
23: On What There Will Be
24: Is There a World Out There? God Knows!
25: Absence, Non-Existence and Other Negative Things
Bibliography
Index
