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Research paper thumbnail of The a priori Enigma in Kant's Transcendental Deduction

Concepts and Issues in Philosophy, 2023

The following is a sincere (with regard to Kant) endeavour to identify, address and analyse prima... more The following is a sincere (with regard to Kant) endeavour to identify, address and analyse primarily, the a priori issues in Kant's transcendental deduction: Kant's assertion that mathematics, as a system of truth, is a priori and synthetic. In such pursuit, the paper inexorably extends to further assess Kant's Newtonian and at the same time not-so-Newtonian treatment of space and time, that space and time are not concepts or quantities but a priori forms of intuition. Kant's examples of other synthetic a priori systems like the fundamental propositions of natural science (Newtonian laws), ontology (metaphysics of nature) and (Kantian) ethics are also discussed to bring some clarity to the debate whether Kant was mistaken to hold mathematics a priori synthetic. The discourse is necessarily accentuated by taking into account, simultaneously, the syntheticity of mathematics in Kant's time and also contemporary analytic and formal systems of axiomatic mathematics. Tracing Kant's development of the transcendental deduction, strictly in the Kantian method, the paper thus attempts to scrutinise the transcendental enigma that surrounds it, whether the transcendental synthesis is a process whereby experience is generated or it is a structure that contains, within itself an experience crucial to all human understanding.

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Research paper thumbnail of Meursault’s Nonconformity: The Ethical Conflict in Albert Camus’ 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑂𝑢𝑡𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑟

RJOE, Apr 18, 2022

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Research paper thumbnail of Schrödinger's Cat and Karen Barad's Agential Realism: Entangled Phenomena in New-Materialist Onto-epistemology

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Research paper thumbnail of Answerability as Ontology

Bakhtinian "answerability" as an onto-hermeneutic model

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Research paper thumbnail of Doctrinal Relevance of "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" to Modern-day Readers

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Research paper thumbnail of Schrödinger’s Cat and Karen Barads Agential Realism Entangled Phenomena in New materialist Onto-epistemology (Visual version)

Presented on 30 August 2024 at The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad

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Research paper thumbnail of Schrödinger’s Cat and Karen Barad’s Agential Realism: Entangled Phenomena in New-materialist Onto-epistemology

Whither Integrative Humanities? Paths and Challenges, 2024

Looking at the Cat paradox and its implications, this is an attempt to understand what I call the... more Looking at the Cat paradox and its implications, this is an attempt to understand what I call the Baradian Ecosystem where meaning comes into being with the intra-action of the material and the discursive. This understanding is phenomenological in that all subject matter is embodied phenomena that exist in entangled states. As Schrödinger’s Cat raises epistemological questions about the limits of knowledge and the role of measurement in determining reality, Agential Realism extends these questions to suggest that knowledge and reality are co-constituted. Meaning and matter are intertwined, and understanding emerges through intra-actions rather than interactions. Barad argues that Agential Realism is useful in the analysis of literature, social inequalities, etc as it is a way of understanding politics, ethics and agencies of any act of observation and by extension, any kind of knowledge practice. This view of knowledge reveals how culture and habits of thought excessively highlight some things and make other things easier to ignore so we never see them.

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Research paper thumbnail of Diatopical Hermeneutics: Fusing Cross-cultural Horizons with Raimon Panikkar (Pre-publication version)

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Research paper thumbnail of Diatopical Hermeneutics: Fusing Cross-cultural Horizons with Raimon Panikkar

Shifting Narratives in Literary Studies: Texts and Contexts in 21st Century Times (International e-conference), 2023

Ways in and out of the hermeneutic circle could be far more perplexing than the conscious realiza... more Ways in and out of the hermeneutic circle could be far more perplexing than the conscious realization of the very inexorable act of interpreting that is essentially intrinsic to human beings. In the hermeneutic circle, the questionable problematics of the circularity of such an interpretative engagement is moving back and forth between a certain preconception about the whole that is formed while studying a part of the whole. Such preconceptions are engendered by an individual’s historical situatedness as much as the cultural and traditional grounds they find themselves in. Gadamer’s attack on the methodology called historicism prompts us to believe that hermeneutics does not only take place across a historical gulf but also can very well take place across a social or cultural gulf. Hence, the hermeneutic act of understanding vitalizes with mutual and developing understanding by merging historical horizons, while also merging social, cultural and interpersonal horizons. Raimon Panikkar most confidently believes that the distance to be overcome is not merely temporal, within one broad tradition, but the gap existing between two human topoi, i.e., ‘places’ of understanding and self-understanding between two or more cultures that have not developed their patterns of intelligibility. Diatopical hermeneutics takes into consideration the thematic understanding of the other while acknowledging that the other has a different basic self-understanding than the self, as the ultimate human horizon and not only differing contexts is at stake here. With the shifting literary narratives in texts and contexts in the current milieu, Panikkar’s hermeneutic, together with his inter-faith dialogue, is crucial to keeping the hermeneutic tradition and subsequently meaning in the humanities alive, particularly in such extraordinary times full of widespread controversies. Along with a very brief historical overview of hermeneutics, this paper aims to elaborate on Raimon Panikkar’s diatopical hermeneutics, exploring the problematics, answers, and possibilities within. Over and above introducing Panikkar’s cross-cultural approach, the paper also aims to provide a framework to rethink as well as endorse further research vis-à-vis culture and hermeneutics.

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Research paper thumbnail of The a priori Enigma in Kant's Transcendental Deduction

Concepts and Issues in Philosophy, 2023

The following is a sincere (with regard to Kant) endeavour to identify, address and analyse prima... more The following is a sincere (with regard to Kant) endeavour to identify, address and analyse primarily, the a priori issues in Kant's transcendental deduction: Kant's assertion that mathematics, as a system of truth, is a priori and synthetic. In such pursuit, the paper inexorably extends to further assess Kant's Newtonian and at the same time not-so-Newtonian treatment of space and time, that space and time are not concepts or quantities but a priori forms of intuition. Kant's examples of other synthetic a priori systems like the fundamental propositions of natural science (Newtonian laws), ontology (metaphysics of nature) and (Kantian) ethics are also discussed to bring some clarity to the debate whether Kant was mistaken to hold mathematics a priori synthetic. The discourse is necessarily accentuated by taking into account, simultaneously, the syntheticity of mathematics in Kant's time and also contemporary analytic and formal systems of axiomatic mathematics. Tracing Kant's development of the transcendental deduction, strictly in the Kantian method, the paper thus attempts to scrutinise the transcendental enigma that surrounds it, whether the transcendental synthesis is a process whereby experience is generated or it is a structure that contains, within itself an experience crucial to all human understanding.

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Research paper thumbnail of Meursault’s Nonconformity: The Ethical Conflict in Albert Camus’ 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑂𝑢𝑡𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑟

RJOE, Apr 18, 2022

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Research paper thumbnail of Schrödinger's Cat and Karen Barad's Agential Realism: Entangled Phenomena in New-Materialist Onto-epistemology

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Research paper thumbnail of Answerability as Ontology

Bakhtinian "answerability" as an onto-hermeneutic model

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Research paper thumbnail of Doctrinal Relevance of "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" to Modern-day Readers

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Research paper thumbnail of Schrödinger’s Cat and Karen Barads Agential Realism Entangled Phenomena in New materialist Onto-epistemology (Visual version)

Presented on 30 August 2024 at The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad

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Research paper thumbnail of Schrödinger’s Cat and Karen Barad’s Agential Realism: Entangled Phenomena in New-materialist Onto-epistemology

Whither Integrative Humanities? Paths and Challenges, 2024

Looking at the Cat paradox and its implications, this is an attempt to understand what I call the... more Looking at the Cat paradox and its implications, this is an attempt to understand what I call the Baradian Ecosystem where meaning comes into being with the intra-action of the material and the discursive. This understanding is phenomenological in that all subject matter is embodied phenomena that exist in entangled states. As Schrödinger’s Cat raises epistemological questions about the limits of knowledge and the role of measurement in determining reality, Agential Realism extends these questions to suggest that knowledge and reality are co-constituted. Meaning and matter are intertwined, and understanding emerges through intra-actions rather than interactions. Barad argues that Agential Realism is useful in the analysis of literature, social inequalities, etc as it is a way of understanding politics, ethics and agencies of any act of observation and by extension, any kind of knowledge practice. This view of knowledge reveals how culture and habits of thought excessively highlight some things and make other things easier to ignore so we never see them.

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Research paper thumbnail of Diatopical Hermeneutics: Fusing Cross-cultural Horizons with Raimon Panikkar (Pre-publication version)

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Research paper thumbnail of Diatopical Hermeneutics: Fusing Cross-cultural Horizons with Raimon Panikkar

Shifting Narratives in Literary Studies: Texts and Contexts in 21st Century Times (International e-conference), 2023

Ways in and out of the hermeneutic circle could be far more perplexing than the conscious realiza... more Ways in and out of the hermeneutic circle could be far more perplexing than the conscious realization of the very inexorable act of interpreting that is essentially intrinsic to human beings. In the hermeneutic circle, the questionable problematics of the circularity of such an interpretative engagement is moving back and forth between a certain preconception about the whole that is formed while studying a part of the whole. Such preconceptions are engendered by an individual’s historical situatedness as much as the cultural and traditional grounds they find themselves in. Gadamer’s attack on the methodology called historicism prompts us to believe that hermeneutics does not only take place across a historical gulf but also can very well take place across a social or cultural gulf. Hence, the hermeneutic act of understanding vitalizes with mutual and developing understanding by merging historical horizons, while also merging social, cultural and interpersonal horizons. Raimon Panikkar most confidently believes that the distance to be overcome is not merely temporal, within one broad tradition, but the gap existing between two human topoi, i.e., ‘places’ of understanding and self-understanding between two or more cultures that have not developed their patterns of intelligibility. Diatopical hermeneutics takes into consideration the thematic understanding of the other while acknowledging that the other has a different basic self-understanding than the self, as the ultimate human horizon and not only differing contexts is at stake here. With the shifting literary narratives in texts and contexts in the current milieu, Panikkar’s hermeneutic, together with his inter-faith dialogue, is crucial to keeping the hermeneutic tradition and subsequently meaning in the humanities alive, particularly in such extraordinary times full of widespread controversies. Along with a very brief historical overview of hermeneutics, this paper aims to elaborate on Raimon Panikkar’s diatopical hermeneutics, exploring the problematics, answers, and possibilities within. Over and above introducing Panikkar’s cross-cultural approach, the paper also aims to provide a framework to rethink as well as endorse further research vis-à-vis culture and hermeneutics.

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