In this book, Chattopadhyaya examines the epistemological and methodological implications of induction and probability. Opposed to foundationalism and the thesis of certainty of human knowledge, he has defended a qualified form of fallibilism and constructive kind of skepticism.

Induction, Probability, and Skepticism (Suny Philosophy)

Politics & Social Sciences

Chattopadhyaya, D.P.

Philosophy

State University of New York Press

Induction, Probability, and Skepticism (Suny Series in Philosophy)

State Univ of New York Pr

Whether history or anthropology is the most fundamental social science remains still a controversial and undecided issue. For a proper understanding of this instructive controversy, the presuppositions of these two disciplines need to be critically and philosophically reviewed. Otherwise the true perspective of the controversy remains undisclosed and therefore unintelligible.A close and comprehensive understanding of language as the basic form of the life-world provides the cues necessary to show correctly the complementary relation between anthropology and history. That synchronic or sociological and diachronic or historical perspectives of science are mutually supportive ways of representing the same social activities has been persuasively argued in this book. Chattopadhyaya has pointedly examined in this connection the conflicting views of Sartre and Levi-Strauss. Also, he has selectively drawn upon, critically assessed, and brought the theories of Husserl, Heidegger, Popper, Quine, and Kuhn to bear upon the problem. The author’s conclusion centers around his own concept of human universals. The positive thesis of the book rejects the trichotomy of three cultures: scientific, humanistic, and technological.That this view is not a theoretical creature but a historical and cultural finding has been plausibly reasoned by Chattopadhyaya. The main trend of his reasoning clearly shows that the gulf between analytic philosophers and phenomenologists is either imaginary or highly exaggerated. In this specific case, the author, a student of Popper, perceptively aruges to the effect that if theorizations is primarily problem-oriented rather than “school-based,” one can see one’s way to rational solution in the convergent light of different but affine human or cultural origins. But his presentation and assessment of the views and arguments of Husseri, Popper, Quine and Kuhn are likely to prove controversial.

Anthropology and Historiography of Science: Continental Thought Series, V16 (Volume 16) (Series In Continental Thought)

Science & Math

Ohio University Press

COLLECTION OF PAPERS, IN TWO PARTS, PROVIDES A COMPREHENSIVE INTRODUCTION TO THE MULIT-VOLUME PROJECT OF HISTORY OF INDIAN SCIENCE, PHILOSOPHY AND CULTURE.

Science, philosophy, and culture: Multi-disciplinary explorations

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

PHISPC

Eessays by some of the most eminent art historians of India, illustrations.

Forms, Concerns, and Development in Historical Perspective: History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization

History

Asia

Munshirm Manoharlal Pub Pvt Ltd

One of newest collection of critical essays in a major new series. information on series available on request

Development of Nyaya Philosophy and Its Social Context (History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization, Vol. III, p.3)

Motilal

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