Results for 'Soumendu Sarkar'

323 found
Order:
  1.  20
    Bargaining for assembly.Soumendu Sarkar & Dhritiman Gupta - 2023 - Theory and Decision 95 (2):229-254.
    We study a multilateral bargaining problem, where the buyer intends to purchase a subset of available items, each owned by a seller. The subset purchased must satisfy a notion of contiguity, which is modeled using graphs. The graph theoretic approach allows us to study different degrees of complementarity and substitutability between items. It also allows us to examine how degrees of complementarity and substitutability affect the share of surplus obtained by the buyer in the equilibrium of the bargaining game. We (...)
    No categories
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  2.  25
    Genetics and Reductionism.Sahotra Sarkar - 2012 - Cambridge University Press.
    With the advent of the Human Genome Project there have been many claims for the genetic origins of complex human behavior including insanity, criminality, and intelligence. But what does it really mean to call something 'genetic'? This is the fundamental question that Sahotra Sarkar's book addresses. The author analyses the nature of reductionism in classical and molecular genetics. He shows that there are two radically different kinds of reductionist explanation: genetic reduction (as found in classical genetics) and physical reduction (...)
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   90 citations  
  3. Models of reduction and categories of reductionism.Sahotra Sarkar - 1992 - Synthese 91 (3):167-94.
    A classification of models of reduction into three categories — theory reductionism, explanatory reductionism, and constitutive reductionism — is presented. It is shown that this classification helps clarify the relations between various explications of reduction that have been offered in the past, especially if a distinction is maintained between the various epistemological and ontological issues that arise. A relatively new model of explanatory reduction, one that emphasizes that reduction is the explanation of a whole in terms of its parts is (...)
    Direct download (4 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   66 citations  
  4. Drift and the causes of evolution.Sahotra Sarkar - 2011 - In Phyllis McKay Illari Federica Russo (ed.), Causality in the Sciences. Oxford University Press. pp. 445.
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   4 citations  
  5. (1 other version)A Theory of Method.Husain Sarkar - 1985 - Philosophy of Science 52 (2):315-317.
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   11 citations  
  6.  63
    Environmental Initiatives at Tata Steel.Runa Sarkar - 2005 - International Corporate Responsibility Series 2:191-215.
    The firm has an overwhelming role in sustainable development, and this paper identifies what influences a firm’s management of the business-environment interface. This is done through an in-depth case study of the environmental behavior of Tata Steel, India’s largest and oldest integrated steel plant. The Indian regulatory environment is one of strict (and sometimes contradictory) laws and slack enforcement. This paper examines the inclination of a firm in this context to commit to pollution abatement and honor its commitment by achieving (...)
    Direct download (3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  7.  23
    Effects of Diazepam on Reaction Times to Stop and Go.Swagata Sarkar, Supriyo Choudhury, Nazrul Islam, Mohammad Shah Jahirul Hoque Chowdhury, Md Tauhidul Islam Chowdhury, Mark R. Baker, Stuart N. Baker & Hrishikesh Kumar - 2020 - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 14.
  8.  89
    Hierarchy: Perspectives for Ecological Complexity.Sahotra Sarkar - 1982
  9. Molecular Models of Life: Philosophical Papers on Molecular Biology.Sahotra Sarkar - 2004 - Bradford.
    Despite the transformation in biological practice and theory brought about by discoveries in molecular biology, until recently philosophy of biology continued to focus on evolutionary biology. When the Human Genome Project got underway in the late 1980s and early 1990s, philosophers of biology -- unlike historians and social scientists -- had little to add to the debate. In this landmark collection of essays, Sahotra Sarkar broadens the scope of current discussions of the philosophy of biology, viewing molecular biology as (...)
    Direct download (3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   58 citations  
  10.  11
    A Comparative Study on Religious Teachings on Good Decision Making-In Search of a "Golden Rule".Hiren Sarkar - 2019 - Journal of Indian Philosophy and Religion 24:73-107.
    In decision-making the first step is to get knowledge about alternatives which can deliver "a" required objective. The second step is to choose one from the many options using a suitable "criterion". The third is to recognise the famous lesson from Bhagabad Gita that one can control his actions but not the result and be prepared with a "coping strategy" in case of a failure. The two central aspects in decision making are knowledge and choice. Choice is based on certain (...)
    No categories
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   1 citation  
  11. Genetics and Reductionism.Sahotra Sarkar - 2000 - Philosophical Quarterly 50 (198):128-130.
    No categories
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   95 citations  
  12. Introductory Note to the Contributions by Sarkar and Thaler.S. Sarkar & D. S. Thaler - 1996 - Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 183:185-186.
  13.  32
    What Is, and What Good Is, Fitness? Reflections on Takacs and Bourrat.Sahotra Sarkar - 2024 - Biological Theory 19 (3):168-169.
    Direct download (3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  14.  31
    Logical empiricism and the special sciences: Reichenbach, Feigl, and Nagel.Sahotra Sarkar (ed.) - 1996 - New York: Garland Publ..
    A new direction in philosophy Between 1920 and 1940 logical empiricism reset the direction of philosophy of science and much of the rest of Anglo-American philosophy. It began as a relatively organized movement centered on the Vienna Circle, and like-minded philosophers elsewhere, especially in Berlin. As Europe drifted into the Nazi era, several important figures, especially Carnap and Neurath, also found common ground in their liberal politics and radical social agenda. Together, the logical empiricists set out to reform traditional philosophy (...)
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   2 citations  
  15. (1 other version)The Philosophy of Science: An Encyclopedia.Sahotra Sarkar & Jessica Pfeifer (eds.) - 2005 - New York: Routledge.
    The philosophy of science is the branch of philosophy that examines the profound philosophical questions that arise from scientific research and theories. A sub-discipline of philosophy that emerged in the twentieth century, the philosophy of science is largely a product of the British and Austrian schools of thought and traditions. The first in-depth reference in the field that combines scientific knowledge with philosophical inquiry, The Philosophy of Science: An Encyclopedia is a two-volume set that brings together an international team of (...)
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   25 citations  
  16.  84
    Biodiversity and Environmental Philosophy: An Introduction.Sahotra Sarkar - 2005 - Cambridge University Press.
    This book explores the epistemological and ethical issues at the foundations of environmental philosophy, emphasising the conservation of biodiversity. Sahota Sarkar criticises attempts to attribute intrinsic value to nature and defends an anthropocentric position on biodiversity conservation based on an untraditional concept of transformative value. Unlike other studies in the field of environmental philosophy, this book is as much concerned with epistemological issues as with environmental ethics. It covers a broad range of topics, including problems of explanation and prediction (...)
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   42 citations  
  17.  59
    Environmental Philosophy: From Theory to Practice.Sahotra Sarkar - 2011 - Wiley-Blackwell.
    The first comprehensive treatment of environmental philosophy, going beyond ethics to address the philosophical concepts that underlie environmental thinking and policy-making today Encompasses all of environmental philosophy, including conservation biology, restoration ecology, sustainability, environmental justice, and more Offers the first treatment of decision theory in an environmental philosophy text Explores the conceptions of nature and ethical presuppositions that underlie contemporary environmental debates, and, moving from theory to practice, shows how decision theory translates to public policy Addresses both hot-button issues, including (...)
    Direct download (3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   14 citations  
  18.  17
    Doubting Darwin: Creationist Designs on Evolution.Sahotra Sarkar - 2007 - Wiley-Blackwell.
    Noted biologist and philosopher Sahotra Sarkar exposes the frauds and fallacies of Intelligent Design Theory, and its claim to be ‘good science’. A scientific and philosophical exploration of the debate between evolutionary theory and Intelligent Design in the classroom Puts the debate into its scientific and historical context Looks at a variety of topics, including the relation between Darwinism and modern evolutionary theory, the use of computer science and information theory by the creationists, and the idea of metaphysical naturalism (...)
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   11 citations  
  19.  19
    Form and function in the molecularization of biology.Sahotra Sarkar - 1996 - In Alfred I. Tauber (ed.), The elusive synthesis: aesthetics and science. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 153--168.
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   1 citation  
  20.  12
    Game theory.Sahotra Sarkar & Jessica Pfeifer - 2005 - In Sahotra Sarkar & Jessica Pfeifer (eds.), The Philosophy of Science: An Encyclopedia. New York: Routledge.
    No categories
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   1 citation  
  21.  25
    Kant: Let Us Compare.Husain Sarkar - 2005 - Review of Metaphysics 58 (4):755-783.
    IN KANT’S ETHICAL THOUGHT, Allen W. Wood powerfully argues in defense of Kant’s alleged notion that we ought not to compare ourselves with others on the moral scale, however much such comparison may be meaningful and permissible with respect to our other skills and characteristics, such as the artistic, practical, or technological. Meaningful, permissible, comparable or not, those skills and characteristics have no inherent worth anyway. These have a market price or a fancy price but no dignity, and it is (...)
    Direct download (3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  22.  13
    Legal models and treatment approaches for the MDO: United States of America.Sameer P. Sarkar - 2009 - In Annie Bartlett & Gillian McGauley (eds.), Forensic Mental Health: Concepts, systems, and practice. Oxford University Press. pp. 403.
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  23. Some proposed cures for the maladies of quantified modal logic: A critical survey.Tushar K. Sarkar - 1981 - In Krishna Roy (ed.), Mind, language, and necessity. Delhi: Macmillan India.
  24. Tractatus 6.54 and S.N Ganguly: An Indian Wittgensteinian in Retrospect.Priyambada Sarkar - forthcoming - Journal of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research:1-19.
    ‘Tractatus, since I first read it, has been a constant source of philosophical inspiration to me’ so says Ganguly in the preface of his book Wittgenstein’s Tractatus: A Preliminary. This extraordinary commentary on Tractatus is unique in the sense that it has discussed all the commentaries available at that time while examining and critiquing, wherever necessary, the commentaries as well as the original with utmost passion and sincerity. His approach to the author was feasibly sympathetic and sensitive, though he never (...)
    No categories
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  25.  94
    Environmental philosophy: From theory to practice.Sahotra Sarkar - 2014 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 45 (1):89-91.
    Environmental philosophy is a hybrid discipline drawing extensively from epistemology, ethics, and philosophy of science and analyzing disciplines such as conservation biology, restoration ecology, sustainability studies, and political ecology. The book being discussed both provides an overview of environmental philosophy and develops an anthropocentric framework for it. That framework treats natural values as deep cultural values. Tradeoffs between natural values are analyzed using decision theory to the extent possible, leaving many interesting question for philosophical deliberation. This framework is supposed to (...)
    Direct download (4 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   18 citations  
  26.  16
    Cooperation.Sahorta Sarkar & Anya Plutynski - 2008 - In Sahorta Sarkar & Anya Plutynski (eds.), Companion to the Philosophy of Biology. Blackwell. pp. 415-430.
    No categories
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   2 citations  
  27.  86
    Nagel on reduction.Sahotra Sarkar - 2015 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 53:43-56.
    This paper attempts a critical reappraisal of Nagel's (1961, 1970) model of reduction taking into account both traditional criticisms and recent defenses. This model treats reduction as a type of explanation in which a reduced theory is explained by a reducing theory after their relevant representational items have been suitably connected. In accordance with the deductive-nomological model, the explanation is supposed to consist of a logical deduction. Nagel was a pluralist about both the logical form of the connections between the (...)
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   18 citations  
  28.  33
    Introduction.Sahotra Sarkar & Jason Scott Robert - 2003 - Biology and Philosophy 18 (2):209-217.
  29.  19
    Origins and identities.Husain Sarkar - 1982 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 60 (2):140 – 151.
    No categories
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   2 citations  
  30.  73
    Flights of fancy: Steve Fuller: Science. Durham, UK: Acumen, 2010, 166pp, £9.99 PB.Sahotra Sarkar - 2011 - Metascience 21 (2):425-426.
    Flights of fancy Content Type Journal Article Pages 1-2 DOI 10.1007/s11016-011-9572-y Authors Sahotra Sarkar, Section of Integrative Biology, Department of Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin, Waggener Hall 316, Austin, TX 78712-1180, USA Journal Metascience Online ISSN 1467-9981 Print ISSN 0815-0796.
    No categories
    Direct download (4 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  31.  24
    An Operational Notion of Classicality Based on Physical Principles.Shubhayan Sarkar - 2023 - Foundations of Physics 53 (2):1-16.
    One of the basic observations of the classical world is that physical entities are real and can be distinguished from each other. However, within quantum theory, the idea of physical realism is not well established. A framework to analyse how observations in experiments can be described using some physical states of reality was recently developed, known as ontological models framework. Different principles when imposed on the ontological level give rise to different theories, the validity of which can be tested based (...)
    Direct download (3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  32.  14
    (1 other version)A Theory of Group Rationality.Husain Sarkar - 1981 - Journal of Philosophy 78 (11):739-740.
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  33. Buddhyapeksam In Kanada Sutra-1.2. 3.S. K. Sarkar - 2001 - Indian Philosophical Quarterly 28 (4):455-462.
    No categories
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  34.  73
    Introduction: FORUM: POINCARÉ RECONSIDERED, ONE HUNDRED YEARS AFTERWARDS.Sahotra Sarkar - 2016 - Hopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 6 (2):239-241.
  35.  20
    In Defence of Truth.Husain Sarkar - 1983 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 14 (1):67.
    Direct download (3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  36. Mental health law and mentally disorder offender.Sameer Sarkar - 2009 - In Annie Bartlett & Gillian McGauley (eds.), Forensic Mental Health: Concepts, systems, and practice. Oxford University Press.
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  37. Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Science.Sahotra Sarkar & Jessica Pfeiffer (eds.) - 2006
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  38.  26
    Structure–property correlation of a boron and carbon modified as castβtitanium alloy.R. Sarkar, P. Ghosal, T. K. Nandy & K. K. Ray - 2013 - Philosophical Magazine 93 (15):1936-1957.
    No categories
    Direct download (2 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  39. Selection of Conservation Area Networks.Sahotra Sarkar - unknown
    estimated surrogates for biodiversity. Using data setsfrom Quebec and Queensland, zve applied four methods to assess the extent to zvhich environmental surrogates can represent biodiversity components: (1) surrogacy graphs; (2) marginal representation plots; (3) Hamming distance function; and (4) Syj rala statistical test for..
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  40.  79
    The Theory of Property, Law, and Social Order in Hindu Political Philosophy.Benoy Kumar Sarkar - 1920 - International Journal of Ethics 30 (3):311-325.
  41. From ecological diversity to biodiversity.Sahotra Sarkar - 2007 - In David L. Hull & Michael Ruse (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to the Philosophy of Biology. New York: Cambridge University Press.
  42. Philosophy, History, and Molecular Biology—Introduction.Sahotra Sarkar - 1996 - In The Philosophy and history of molecular biology: new perspectives. Boston: Kluwer Academic. pp. 1--13.
  43.  49
    Structural Realism in Biology.Sahotra Sarkar - 2020 - Croatian Journal of Philosophy 20 (1):35-62.
    Structural realism holds that ontological commitments induced by successful scientific theories should focus on the structures rather than the objects posited by the theories. Thus structural realism goes beyond the empirical adequacy criterion of traditional (or constructive) empiricism. It also attempts to avoid the problems scientific realism faces in contexts of radical theory change accompanied by discordant shifts in posited theoretical objects. Structural realism emerged in the context of attempts to interpret developments in twentieth-century physics. In a biological context, Stanford (...)
    No categories
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   1 citation  
  44.  26
    Cut-and-Paste Genetics: A Response to Newman and Baxter.Sahotra Sarkar - 2023 - In Michael Boylan (ed.), International Public Health Policy and Ethics. Springer Verlag. pp. 369-376.
    Newman objects to human germ-line editingGerm-line editing on both philosophical and practical grounds. While the philosophical grounds are compelling, I argue that they are not sufficiently strong to exclude all germ-line editingGerm-line editing to eliminate genetic diseasesGenetic disease. However, the practical reasons he offers preclude germ-line editing except in very limited circumstances. I argue that my requirement of gene specificityGene specificity in Cut-and-Paste Genetics can address his concerns. Meanwhile Baxter argues that my criteria are so restrictive that they would exclude (...)
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  45. The science question in intelligent design.Sahotra Sarkar - 2011 - Synthese 178 (2):291-305.
    Intelligent Design creationism is often criticized for failing to be science because it falls afoul of some demarcation criterion between science and non-science. This paper argues that this objection to Intelligent Design is misplaced because it assumes that a consistent non-theological characterization of Intelligent Design is possible. In contrast, it argues that, if Intelligent Design is taken to be non-theological doctrine, it is not intelligible. Consequently, a demarcation criterion cannot be used to judge its status. This position has the added (...)
    Direct download (4 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   10 citations  
  46.  90
    Carnap and the compulsions of interpretation: Reining in the liberalization of empiricism. [REVIEW]Sahotra Sarkar - 2013 - European Journal for Philosophy of Science 3 (3):353-372.
    Carnap’s work was instrumental to the liberalization of empiricism in the 1930s that transformed the logical positivism of the Vienna Circle to what came to be known as logical empiricism. A central feature of this liberalization was the deployment of the Principle of Tolerance, originally introduced in logic, but now invoked in an epistemological context in “Testability and Meaning”. Immediately afterwards, starting with Foundations of Logic and Mathematics, Carnap embraced semantics and turned to interpretation to guide the choice of a (...)
    Direct download (5 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   3 citations  
  47.  17
    Discourses on neohumanist education.Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar - 1998 - Anandanagar: Ananda Marga Publications.
    No categories
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark   1 citation  
  48. Rudolf Carnap, 1891–1970: The editor's introduction.Sahotra Sarkar - 1992 - Synthese 93 (1-2):1-14.
  49.  9
    Studies in epistemology: Indian perspectives.Priyambada Sarkar & Roma Chakraborty (eds.) - 2009 - Kolkata: Distributor, Renaissance Publishers.
    Direct download  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
  50.  19
    Sanctuaires Rupestres de l'Inde du Sud. I. Andhra.Kalyan Kumar Sarkar & P. Z. Pattabiramin - 1976 - Journal of the American Oriental Society 96 (1):148.
    No categories
    Direct download (3 more)  
     
    Export citation  
     
    Bookmark  
1 — 50 / 323