Item Code: IDG166by Monima Chadha Ajay K. RainaHardcover (Edition: 2001)Indian Institute Of Advanced Study, Shimla ISBN 8179860019 Language: English Size: 8.5" X 5.5" Pages: 158 |
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The book dives deep into the ocean of Basic Objects which have unfathomable qualities. These Basic Objects have been taken from physics, arithmetic, language, sociology and other disciplines. It contains nine cases in theoretic primitives from national and international experts. The book presents intellectual panorama of highest metaphysical and scientific nature to the scholarly world.
About the Author:
MONIMA CHADHA is on the faculty of School of Philosophy, Linguistics, and Bio-ethics, Monash University. She was earlier with the Indian Institute of technology, Kanpur where she taught philosophy of language, Indian philosophy and philosophy of science. She is the author of Topics in Indian Philosophy, published by Monash Distance Education Centre.
A. K. RAINA is a Professor of electrical engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He works in mathematical theories of control and information processing. His other scholarly interest are in the history of philosophy of science and civilizations. He occasionally writes poetry. He is also a fellow of IETE and member of IEEE and a national expert for AICTE.
| Acknowledgements | 7 | |
| Foreword | 9 | |
| Introduction | 11 | |
| 1. | Primitives and Resolution AJAY K. RAINA | 21 |
| 2. | Doughnuts ACHILLE C. VARZI | 41 |
| 3. | Intuitive Topology ROBERT CASATI | 53 |
| 4. | Are Theoretical Primitives Basic Objects? MONIMA CHADHA | 63 |
| 5. | Basic Objects in Condensed Matter Physics YASHOWANTA N. MOHAPATRA | 77 |
| 6. | Shifting Domains NIRMALANGSHU MUKHERJI | 91 |
| 7. | Basic Objects in Linguistics B. N. PATNAIK | 107 |
| 8. | The Two Faces of Fitness ELLIOTT SOBER | 125 |
| 9. | What the Eyes Feel MAXIENNE TRITTON YOUNG | 145 |
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