Arindam Chakrabarti
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Arindam Chakrabarti is an Indian philosopher who is a professor of philosophy at
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,
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. He is the disciple of Sri Sri Sitaramdas Omkarnath. He earned his B.A. and M.A. degrees from the
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in 1976 and 1978, respectively. He completed
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at
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in 1982, under the supervision of Sir
Peter Strawson Sir Peter Frederick Strawson (; 23 November 1919 – 13 February 2006) was an English philosopher who spent most of his career at the University of Oxford. He was the Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at Magdalen College, O ...
and
Michael Dummett Sir Michael Anthony Eardley Dummett (; 27 June 1925 – 27 December 2011) was an English academic described as "among the most significant British philosophers of the last century and a leading campaigner for racial tolerance and equality." H ...
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Selected publications

* ''Realisms Interlinked: Objects, Subjects and Other Subjects'' (24 chapters Monograph)—Bloomsbury, London, published 2019. * ''The Book of Questions: An Introduction to Indian Philosophical Analysis''—Penguin Books, India. 2018. * Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art, 2017. * Comparative Philosophy without Borders: Essays in Fusion Philosophy, co-edited with Ralph Weber, 2015, Bloomsbury-Continuum, London, UK. * ''Engaged Emancipation: New Essays on Yogavāsiṣtha'', Co-edited with Christopher Chapple, State University of New York Press, 2014. * ''Mahābhārata Now: Narrative, Aesthetics, Ethics'' (Co-edited with Shibaji Bandyopadhyaya), Routledge India, and Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, 2013. * ''Apoha: Buddhist Nominalism and Human Cognition'' (Co-edited with Mark Siderits and Tom Tillemans), Columbia University Press, New York, 2011. * ''Universals, Concepts, and Qualities: New Essays on the Meaning of Predicates'', Ashgate Publishing, UK, 2006, Co-edited with Sir Peter Strawson. * ''Denying Existence'' (Book in the Synthese Library Series), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht/Boston, 1997. * ''Epistemology, Meaning and Metaphysics After Matilal'' (edited anthology), Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Studies in the Humanities Series Vol. II, 1996. * ''Knowing from Words'' (Co-edited with Bimal Matilal), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Synthese Library Series, 1993.


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