Realisms interlinked : objects, subjects and other subjects

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Realisms interlinked : objects, subjects and other subjects

Arindam Chakrabarti

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020

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Includes bibliographical references (p.316-326) and index

First published in Great Britain 2020, reprinted 2019

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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.

Table of 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

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