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Mind and Cognition A...
Mind and Cognition An Interdisciplinary Sharing
Essays in honour of Amita Chatterjee by: Kuntala Bhattacharya , Smita Sirker , Madhucchanda SenThis volume, a tribute to Prof. Amita Chatterjee, features the views of forty scholars across the globe on major philosophical areas like Fusion Philosophy, Mind and Cognition, Mind and Perception, Mind and Language, Logic, and Indian Philosophy along with the autobiography of Chatterjee and her response to the contributions of those scholars.
$100.00
ISBN: 9788124609507 (Set)
Year Of Publication: 2019
Edition: 1st Edition
Pages : xiv, 923
Bibliographic Details : Bibliography; Index
Language : English
Binding : Hardcover
Publisher: D.K. Printworld Pvt. Ltd.
Size: 23
Weight: 1900
“Knowing one’s tradition is important; but only when tradition is not presented as fossilised but as continuous with our present-day living. In most places we do not make enough effort to show the link between the classical philosophical thoughts and the contemporary world view. We need to show that we can still meaningfully interact with the classical philosophical systems”, writes Amita Chatterjee in her seminal essay “In Search of Counterpoints”. This volume is dedicated in her honour. “Knowing one’s tradition is important; but only when tradition is not presented as fossilised but as continuous with our present-day living. In most places we do not make enough effort to show the link between the classical philosophical thoughts and the contemporary world view. We need to show that we can still meaningfully interact with the classical philosophical systems”, writes Amita Chatterjee in her seminal essay “In Search of Counterpoints”. This volume is dedicated in her honour. Chatterjee belongs to a genre of philosophers, who have as part of their cultural heritage, like Raghunath Siromani and Immanuel Kant. Chatterjee, in addition to breaking cultural boundaries, desired to break boundaries that have kept professional disciplines apart. She deeply believes that there are certain basic questions that are questions not for any specific discipline. These questions, she thinks, could not be answered by remaining within one single discipline. It is no surprise that she was the founder of the first Cognitive Science Centre in India. Responding to her multifaceted academic talent, forty academics from diverse disciplines and from all over the world have contributed papers to this volume. The major areas of Chatterjee’s interest that feature in this volume are: (i) Fusion Philosophy, (ii) Mind and Cognition, (iii) Mind and Perception, (iv) Mind and Language, (v) Logic and Vagueness, (vi) Logic, (vii) Indian Philosophy, and (viii) Philosophy, Society and Popular Culture. Chatterjee’s intellectual autobiography and her responses to each of the papers are parts of this volume.
ISBN 9788124609514 (vol. 1)
ISBN 9788124609521 (vol. 2)
Preface
Acknowledgements
Volume I
My Philosophical Journey
— Amita Chatterjee
Part 1 : Fusion Philosophy
1. Local Norms : The Priority of the Particular
— Jonardon Ganeri
2. Sowing the Seeds of Physical and Moral Consequences : Causal Attribution and Moral Responsibility
— Smita Sirker
3. Vyapti and Necessity
— Sundar Sarukkai
4. Simulation and Meditation
— Maushumi Guha
5. Ashtanga Yoga in Synergy with Medical Science
— Uma Dhar
Part 2 : Mind and Cognition
6. The Qualitative and the Intentional Contents of Consciousness
— Manidipa Sen
7. On Being No One : The Idea of a Perspectiveless Self
— Bijoy H. Boruah
8. I Do Therefore I Am : What Agentive Self-awareness Teaches Us about the Unity of Consciousness
— Nivedita Gangopadhyay
9. Aspects, Insights and Creativity
— Anirban Mukherjee
10. Mental Image and Its Relevance in the Human Cognitive System
— Lopamudra Choudhury
11. Control of Emotional State-transitions by Audio-Visual Stimulus Using Fuzzy Automata
— Aruna Chakraborty, Anisha Halder and Amit Konar
Part 3 : Mind and Perception
12. Dinnaga’s Definition of Perception : A Review
— Kuntala Bhattacharya
13. Perception of Sensible Qualities : A Problem for the Nyaya Epistemologists
— Srilekha Datta
14. The Problem of Perception and the Common Element Thesis : A Critique
— Madhucchanda Sen
15. In Search of a Genuine Smell Illusion : Olfactory Phenomenology and the Representational Theory of Perception
— Nalini Bhushan
Part 4 : Mind and Language
16. Thinking with Words : In Search of a Global Theory of the Mind–Language Interface
— R.C. Pradhan
17. Things Wrong with Perry’s Account of Attitudes De Se
— Arthur Falk
18. Silent Words: Semiotic Assemblages as Bridges to the Semantics–Pragmatics Divide in Communication
— Rolla Das, Rajesh Kasturirangan and Anindya Sinha
19. Conversations and Other Illocutionary Act Successions
— Probal Dasgupta
Volume II
Part 5 : Logic and Vagueness
20. Vagueness : A Case for Degrees of Truth
— Sanjukta Basu
21. Making Sense of Vagueness as a Fuzzy Idea
— Prajit Basu
22. Soft Truth, Soft Consequence and Soft Computing
— Mihir Kumar Chakraborty and Zhao Chuan
23. Where Vagueness Is a Virtue
— Shefali Moitra
24. Vagueness and God
— Nirmalya Narayan Chakraborty
Part 6 : Logic
25. Salmon’s Guise or Fregean Sinn?
— Shyamasree Bhattacharya
26. A Transcendental Argument for Essentialism
— Indrani Sanyal
Part 7 : Indian Philosophy
27. Some Musings on Dharma as Moral Value in Indian Philosophy
— Tara Chatterjea
28. Dinnaga’s Reflexivity Thesis
— Mark Siderits
29. Svaprakashatva Character of Cognition after Bhartrihari
— Madhumita Chattopadhyay
30. Doctrine of Epistemic Perspectives (Nayavada) : A Critical Re-Assessment
— Tushar Kanti Sarkar
31. Is Tense Real? A Nyaya–Buddhist Controversy
— Maitreyee Datta
32. On Definition
— Ratna Dutta Sharma
Part 8: Philosophy, Society and Popular Culture
33. Philosophy and Hindi Cinema: Not a Theory of Hindi Cinema
— Sharad Deshpande
34. Why Do We Practise Vrata? Looking at the Issue from Feminist Point of View
— Sebanti Bhattacharya
Responses
— Amita Chatterjee
A Bibliography of Writings of Amita Chatterjee
Contributors
Index
“Mind and Cognition An Interdisciplinary Sharing”
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