Realisms Interlinked

Arindam Chakrabarti is Professor of Philosophy and Director of Center for South Asian Studies at University of Hawai'i, USA.

• PART I: OBJECTSIntroduction1: I Touch What I Saw2: Non-particular Individuals3: On Perceiving Properties4: Seeing Daffodils, Seeing as Daffodils, and Seeing Things Called ‘Daffodils’5: Truth, Recognition of Truth, and Thoughtless Realism6: Idealist Refutations of Idealism7: Externality, Difference and Inherence8: Is This a Dream?9: The Object to the Verb: The Case of the AccusativePART II: SUBJECTS10: On Referring to the First Person11: The Self at Other Times and In Other Bodies12: Does Self Awareness Turn the Self Into an Object?13: In Defense of an Inner Sense14: Our Knowledge and Error About Our Own Cognitions15: Fictionalism About the Mental16: Nyaya Proofs for the Existence of the SelfPART III: OTHER SUBJECTS17: Knowing You From the Bridge18: The Grammar of Calling the Other19: Knowing From the Words of Others20: Can Another Person Teach Me What It Means?21: Shadows of Ignorance22: Concept Possession, Sense Experience and Knowledge of a Language23: On What There Will Be24: Is There a World Out There? God Knows!25: Absence, Non-Existence and Other Negative Things BibliographyIndex

[A] welcome presentation of a lot of Chakrabarti’s often uniquely original work. This book is best treated as an organic whole, much better absorbed as an intellectual construction out of decades of sharp-eyed exploration of the wonders of two different traditions of philosophical thought.