Realisms interlinked: objects, subjects, and other subjects 9781350044463, 9781350044470, 9781350044487, 1868275280, 2017103128, 1350044466
This book brings together over 25 years of Arindam Chakrabarti's original research in philosophy on issues of epist
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English Pages viii, 341 pages: illustrations; 25 cm Year 2019;2020
Table of contents :
I touch what I saw --
Non-particular individuals --
On perceiving properties --
Seeing daffodils, seeing as daffodils, and seeing things called "daffodils" --
Truth, recognition of truth, and thoughtless realism --
Idealist refutations of idealism --
Externality, difference and inherence (Samavāya): Udanaya's refutation of Yogācāra Buddhist pan-mentalism --
Is this a dream? --
The object to the verb : the case of the accusative --
On referring to the first person --
The self at other times and in other bodies --
Does self awareness turn the self into an object? --
In defense of an inner sense --
Our knowledge and error about our own cognitions --
Fictionalism about the mental --
Nyāya proofs for the existence of the self --
Knowing you from the bridge --
The grammar of calling the other --
Knowing from the words of others --
Can another person teach me what it means? --
Shadows of ignorance --
Concept possession, sense experience, and knowledge of a language --
On what there will be --
Is there a world out there? God knows! --
Absence, non-existence and other negative things.
