Arindam Chakrabarti is a professor of philosophy

Philosophy

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 at the University of Hawaii

University of Hawaii

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, where (as of 2010) he directed the Center for South Asian Studies.

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

University of Delhi

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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
  Ramakrishna
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   was fond of and pulls out six philosophical elements: a nondualistic metaphysics
  Metaphysics
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  , a spiritualistic ethic, the doctrine of karma
  Karma
  Karma in Indian religions is the concept of "action" or "deed", understood as that which causes the entire cycle of cause and effect originating in ancient India and treated in Hindu, Jain, Buddhist and Sikh philosophies....
  
  , a playful goddess, the possibility of moksha
  Moksha
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  , and the theory of psychological causation.