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    Against foundationalism \b towards Quine's naturalized epistemology
    (University of Hyderabad, 1992-12-29) Laxminarayan, Lenka ; Amitabha Das Gupta
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    Alasdair macintyre : a critical study of enlightenment
    (University of Hyderabad, 2013-07) Gautam Satapathy ; Raghuramaraju, A
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    Bending Deleuze and Guattari for India: Re-Examining the Relation Between Art and Politics in Europe and India
    ( 2018-09-01) Raghuramaraju, A.
    Identifying the limitations in earlier attempts for comparing Euro-American philosophy with Indian, the paper distinguishes its approach and makes a case for an alternative approach. This consists of bending the Euro-American philosophy, without breaking it, for use in India. Following the discussion of major and minor literatures by Deleuze and Guattari in the context of Kafka in Europe, the paper shows the variance between its claims in the context of minor literature and the reality. In this context, it establishes a close relation between modernity and art and literature in Europe, where the latter is sought to reclaim what is rejected by the modern. Modernity rejected the premodern as embodying non-reason. Without abandoning this relation between minor and major, it seeks to show its relevance in India through Indian National Movement and M. K. Gandhi. This paper, thus, discusses an instance where alien is a better ground for growth and relevance than the origin.
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    Computer ethics: Constitutive and consequential morality
    ( 2006-12-01) Raghuramaraju, A.
    This chapter introduces two distinct models of morality, namely, constitutive which is available in traditional moral philosophy and consequential which surrounds the present day computer ethics discourse. It shows how constitutive morality thoroughly rehearses possible problems arising out of new developments or introduction of new products before accepting a moral rule, whereas consequential morality, propelled by liberalism, allows freedom for new products without deliberation and attends to problems only when they arise. The chapter, looking from the point of view of constitutive morality, highlights some of the structural problems associated with computer ethics. In conclusion, it suggests how societies, like India, that are not fully modern, can learn from both of these two models, thereby instituting additional terms to a new discipline like computer ethics. © 2007 by Idea Group Inc.
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    Conceptual field \b a critique of indeterminacy theories of meaning
    (University of Hyderabad, 2002-12-23) Muhammedaly, P.P. ; Pradhan, R.C.
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    Consciousness and mind - body problem : a dualistic approach in philosophy of mind
    (University of Hyderabad, 2015-12-20) Sunkanna, Velpula ; Ramesh Chandra Pradhan
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    Critique of bayesian solutions to some paradoxes of confirmation
    (University of Hyderabad, 2013-06) Philose Koshy ; Prajit K. Basu ; Shobha, B
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    Critique of epistemology : a study in charles taylor
    (University of Hyderabad, 2012-06-30) Prasanna, K.V. ; Kulkarni, S.G.
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    Critique of modernity : a study in tolstoy and gandhi
    (UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD, 2015-02-28) Oxana Leonovna, Akulova ; Kulkarni, S.G.
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    Debates in Indian Philosophy: Classical, Colonial, and Contemporary
    ( 2012-10-18) Raghuramaraju, A.
    This book elucidates the debate between Swami Vivekananda and Mahatma Gandhi, V.D. Savarkar and Gandhi, and Sri Aurobindo and Krishnachandra Bhattacharyya. It also compares and contrasts for the first time, scholars like Sudhir Kakar and Tapan Raychaudhuri. The debates in classical, colonial and contemporary Indian philosophy are specifically reported. A discussion on Indian state, civil society, religion and politics is presented. Moreover, the association between science and spiritualism is explained.
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    Enduring Colonialism: Classical Presences and Modern Absences in Indian Philosophy
    ( 2012-10-18) Raghuramaraju, A.
    This volume explores three significant issues - absence, the consciousness of the contemporary, and new philosophical episteme - relevant to thought-systems in the Indian subcontinent. The author discusses the present lack of original philosophical discourse in the context of South Asia, especially India and investigates the reasons of such absences. It examines the reasons for decline in traditional philosophical schools and Sanskritic studies in the subcontinent. The book also discusses the manner in which Indian thinkers from the times of nineteenth century social reforms to the present day have interacted with the contemporary issues of philosophical engagement the world over. It also explores the relevance of classical texts and thought systems alongside contemporary philosophical consciousness. A major part of the discussion comprises of philosophical analysis of a new contemporary Indian text entitled, Desire and Liberation: The Fundamentals of Cosmicontology by Vaddera Chandidas.
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    Excavating the relation between non-being and permanence in the Vedas, Upanishads, Bergson, Deleuze and Vaddera Chandidas
    ( 2018-02-01) Raghuramaraju, A.
    In the context of discussing Deleuze’s account of Bergson’s idea of non-being, this paper brings into discussion different versions of non-being as available in Indian philosophy. These versions are drawn both from classical Indian philosophy including Vedas and Upanishads and modern Indian philosophy such as Vaddera Chandidas. The paper discusses Deleuze’s analysis of Bergson on the relation between non-being and negation. While Bergson rightly traces the roots of non-being to negation, he, however, rendered it to intuition. Extending Bergson’s diagnosis of negation as the basis of non-being, the paper goes on to show, using Chandidas’s work Desire and Liberation: The Fundamentals of Cosmicontology, how negation in the form of pre-existence and post-existence that negate existence is made possible by permanence. Pre-and post-existence are permanent; in contrast, existence is rendered impermanent and changing. The paper concludes, using the insights from Chandidas, by exposing this conspiracy of metaphysics that renders the real existence as fleeing and impermanent in contrast to the non-being that is projected by the intellect as real.
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    Forgotten Moral Exemplars of the West: A Critique of Akeel Bilgrami’s Projection of Gandhi
    ( 2012-01-01) Raghuramaraju, A.
    This chapter focuses on eAkeel Bilgrami’s famous essay on Mahatma Gandhi entitled ‘Gandhi’s Integrity: The Philosophy Behind the Politics’ in the volume in honour of Mrinal Miri. Bilgrami introduces a distinction between universality and universalisability. He defines the former as suggesting that ‘a moral value, whether or not someone in particular holds it, applies to all persons’. While agreeing with Bilgrami’s preference for exemplary lives over moral principles one could wonder how one accounts for morally wrong actions too becoming exemplary lives for others to emulate, using the provision of flexibility. The life of Christ and the morality derived from it has also played an important role in shaping Western moral theory. Gandhi largely avoided offering Indian solutions to Western problems. All major contemporary Indian thinkers in one way or an other fell prey to this temptation: glaring instances are Bankim Chandra, Swami Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo and even Krishnachandra Bhattacharyya.
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    Gandhi on Tradition and Reformation:A Critical Appraisal
    (University of Hyderabad, 2010-02-20) Lakshmi Prasad, G ; Prasad, K.S.
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    Grammar and ontology \b an aproristic world-view
    (University of Hyderabad, 1996-12-30) Sareef, E.K. ; Ramesh Chandra Pradhan
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    Grounding morality: Freedom, knowledge and the plurality of culture
    ( 2012-12-01) Sharma, Jyotirmaya ; Raghuramaraju, A.
    Put together to honour one of the most influential philosophers in recent times, Mrinal Miri, this book brings together articles on philosophy, politics, literature and society, and updates the status of enquiry in each of these fields. In his philosophical writings, Miri has broken the stranglehold that early training has on academics and written on a range of themes and areas, including analytical philosophy, political philosophy, tribal identity, ethics and, more recently, an abiding engagement with the ideas of Gandhi. The articles in this volume mirror some of Miri's concerns and philosophical interests, but go beyond the format of a festschrift, as they seek to enhance and restate themes in moral philosophy, ethics, questions of identity, Gandhi's philosophy, and offer a fresh perspective on themes such as secularism, religion and politics. © Jyotirmaya Sharma and A. Raghuramaraju. All rights reserved.