Intentional and Causal explanations
The first question: could we have EIA of units smaller than the Cosmos? An explanatorily intelligible account of any object, whatever that object is, is one where causal (say) and…
Read moreApaurusheya, shruti and revelation: theoretical dispute
The problem about translating ‘sruti’ is not as easy as it has been made out to be. Is it possible to translate it as ‘revelation’ or even as ‘divine revelation’?…
Read moreWhy Heathens are blind to religion?
Of course, the concept of explanatorily intelligible account is not easy to grasp: if it were, the ‘heathens’ would not be blind to the existence of religion. However, that does…
Read moreIntelligibility: Religion, Belief, Meaning
I Let me begin by clarifying what the notion of intelligibility says. 1. The first thing to keep in mind is that Religion makes (i.e. transforms, renders, or any such…
Read moreWhy people resist to think critically?
I have also come across expressions of similar thoughts and feelings both in India and in Europe and the United States. However, I think there are multiple grounds that generate…
Read moreIs the hypothesis about colonial consciousness ad hoc?
1. I have come to accept that the most interesting facts that a theory explains are those of the theory itself. Furthermore, a ‘theory’, which collects all kinds of facts…
Read moreKids of NRI and their Balvihar education
Irrespective of what Hindu kids are told we have, they will discover later that that all the beliefs they have heard and been taught about, everything about the Ten Commandments…
Read moreColonial Consciousness and Sanskrit Concepts
1. Many are concerned that English translations of some words from native languages distort their meaning. If we restrict ourselves to terms like ‘Deva’, ‘Dharma’ and such like, the worry…
Read moreAre Brahmins ‘priests’?
I do not have a theory of meaning. I do not know which of the many fragmentary theories of meaning I should choose from and why. Even though I acknowledge…
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