MIND AND COGNITION AN INTERDISCIPLINARY SHARING ESSAYS IN HONOUR OF AMITA CHATTERJEE IN TWO VOL.

Knowing OneS Tradition Is Important; But Only When Tradition Is Not Presented As Fossilised But As Continuous With Our PresentDay Living. In Most Places We Do Not Make Enough Effort To Show The Link Between The Classical Philosophical Thoughts And The Contemporary World View. We Need To Show That We Can Still Meaningfully Interact With The Classical Philosophical Systems, Writes Amita Chatterjee In Her Seminal Essay In Search Of Counterpoints. This Volume Is Dedicated In Her Honour. Chatterjee Belongs To A Genre Of Philosophers, Who Have As Part Of Their Cultural Heritage, Like Raghunath Siromani And Immanuel Kant. Chatterjee, In Addition To Breaking Cultural Boundaries, Desired To Break Boundaries That Have Kept Professional Disciplines Apart. She Deeply Believes That There Are Certain Basic Questions That Are Questions Not For Any Specific Discipline. These Questions, She Thinks, Could Not Be Answered By Remaining Within One Single Discipline. It Is No Surprise That She Was The Founder Of The First Cognitive Science Centre In India. Responding To Her Multifaceted Academic Talent, Forty Academics From Diverse Disciplines And From All Over The World Have Contributed Papers To This Volume. The Major Areas Of ChatterjeeS Interest That Feature In This Volume Are: (I) Fusion Philosophy, (Ii) Mind And Cognition, (Iii) Mind And Perception, (Iv) Mind And Language, (V) Logic And Vagueness, (Vi) Logic, (Vii) Indian Philosophy, And (Viii) Philosophy, Society And Popular Culture. ChatterjeeS Intellectual Autobiography And Her Responses To Each Of The Papers Are Parts Of This Volume. Isbn 9788124609514 (Vol. 1) Isbn 9788124609521 (Vol. 2)