Arindam Chakrabarti

Arindam Chakrabarti is a professor of philosophy at the University of Hawaii, where (as of 2010) he directed the Center for South Asian Studies.^[1]

Chakrabarti obtained his BA in 1976 and his MA in 1978, both from Calcutta University,^[2] and his Ph.D. in 1982 from Oxford University.^[1] He held previously a teaching position at the University of Delhi.^[1]

Selected publications

• Arindam Chakrabarti (), Concept Possession, Sense Experience and Knowledge of a Language, Philosophy of Sir Peter Strawson: Library of Living Philosophers, ed. K.T. Hahn (Open Court, USA).

• — (1997), The Cosmic and Social Order of Eating. In Rta: Cosmic Order and Chaosed. Kapila Vatsyayana (New Delhi: Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, )

• — (1997), Nyaya Realism and the Sense Reference Distinction (Discussion Note), Journal of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research, July .

• — (1997), Seeing Daffodils, Seeing as Daffodils, Seeing Things Called 'Daffodils'. In Relativism, Suffering and Beyond, ed. J.N. Mohanty and P. Billimoria (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, ).

• — (1997), Rationality in Indian Thought. In Blackwells Companion to World Philosophy, ed. Eliot Deutsch and Ronald Bontekoe (Oxford: Blackwell, ).

• — (1996), Kant in India, Proceedings of the Eleventh International Kant Congress,

• — (1994), The Dark Mother Flying Kites: Sri Ramakrishna's Metaphysic of Morals. In Sophia, volume 33 issue 3. This article analyzes a song that Ramakrishna was fond of and pulls out six philosophical elements: a nondualistic metaphysics, a spiritualistic ethic, the doctrine of karma, a playful goddess, the possibility of moksha, and the theory of psychological causation.

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