The Philosophy of Daya Krishna

Professor Daya Krishna has over the last four decades of this century, written extensively on the relations between logic and empirical reality, the nature of philosophy and the art of philosophizing, the problem of freedom and its relation to values, analysed issues in social and political philosophy, and put forward a new counter- Perspective on Indian philosopher. In this volume, his ideas and writings are subjected to close critical scrutiny by some of the foremost philosophers of India, such as J. N. Mohanty, D. P. Chattopadhyaya, Sibajiban Bhattacharyya, P. K. Sen, K. J. Shah. The detailed reply by Professor Daya Krishna to each of them turns the volume into a philosophical debate on these issues in contemporary India.

About the Editors

Bhuvan Chandel has been a Professor of Philosophy at Punjab University, Chandigarh, since 1984. She was also Member Secretary, Indian Council of Philosophical Research, from 1992 to 1994. She is the author of Marxian Ethics: Some Preliminary Considerations (1979), and has edited Perspectives on Nature of Violence (1980), Professor Chandel is currently the Chief Editor of the Social Science Research Journal at Punjab University.

K. L. Sharma is Associate Professor of Philosophy at University of Rajasthan, Jaipur. His doctoral dissertation on the philosophy of K. C. Bhattacharyya has won widespread Acclaim from scholars. He is the author of Philosophy, Society and action and subjectivity and Absolute, and has co-edited The Philosophy of J. N. Mohanty. Dr. Sharma is currently the Editor of Indian Journal of Gerontology and Managing Editor of the Hindi Diogenes.

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