Justifying The Means: What It Means To Treat All Suffering Equally
When moral philosopher Peter Singer was a young student at Oxford University, he met a friend and fellow student for lunch in the dining hall. There were two meal options:...
Indian Philosophy of Education and Pedagogy
INDIAN PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION AND PEDAGOGY: AN ESSENTIAL PROPOSITION Prof. N.B. Biswas* Epistemology and pedagogy both the concepts are philosophical in its origin. The present century demands an integrated teacher...
Pandemic Ethics: Utilitarianism and the Lockdown
Utilitarianism is in the news. It was widely believed that the UK government’s so-called ‘herd immunity’ strategy, which involved sacrificing the important interests of a relative few for the sake of benefits for the many, was motivated by a commitment to utilitarianism
Philosophy can help us in this time of crisis
One might say I have plenty of time to read now. The problem is, that everything I read seems to be so useless. Utterly useless. I don’t know why. There...
Understanding others by doing things together: an enactive account
Enactivists claim that social cognition is constituted by interactive processes and even more radically that there is ‘no observation without interaction’. Nevertheless, the notion of interaction at the core of the account has not yet being characterized in a way that makes good the claim that interactions actually constitute social understanding rather than merely facilitating or causally contributing to it.
Scientists probe the ‘Nature of the Mind’
What is the mind? For thousands of years, philosophers, religious figures and scientists have tried to answer this question, but so far, the nature of the mind has eluded understanding....
कोविड- 19, वर्गवाद एवं सामाजिक-आर्थिक प्रभाव
इस धरती का सबसे बुद्धिमान प्राणी मनुष्य अपने द्वारा बनाई गई व्यवस्थाओं को देखकर गर्व करता है और उस पर इतराता है। परंतु यही गर्व जब घमंड में परिवर्तित हो जाता है जब वह प्रकृति द्वारा बनाई गई व्यवस्था को चुनौती देने लगता है और प्रकृति के नियमों में बाधा उत्पन्न करता है।