Husain Sarkar
Biographic Data
| ID | 976423 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Husain Sarkar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Husain |
| FAMILY NAME | Sarkar |
| SIGNATURE | SARKAR H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Louisiana State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Annas
This paper is informed by two principles: the Partiality Principle and the Impartiality Principle. Relying upon a relatively-unknown argument in Kant, the latter principle is stated and defended. The former principle is shown to be connected to Annas’ claim, in her theory of virtue ethics, that no mature, responsible adult wants to be told what to do, as well as to her developmental account of teaching and learning of virtue. I argue that Annas’ …
Annas
Annas' virtue ethics faces the Circularity Objection. She claims that a just soul is disposed to doing just acts. If a just soul is defined neither in terms of right acts nor rules, then the Circularity Objection is circumvented. Drawing upon Korsgaard's recent work, it is shown that Annas' argument faces anew the Circularity Objection. Then, I examine Annas' fresh attempts to avert the Circularity Objection by appealing to the community of the v…
Descartes' Cogito
Perhaps the most famous proposition in the history of philosophy is Descartes' cogito 'I think, therefore I am'. Husain Sarkar claims in this provocative interpretation of Descartes that the ancient tradition of reading the cogito as an argument is mistaken. It should, he says, be read as an intuition. Through this interpretative lens, the author reconsiders key Cartesian topics: the ideal inquirer, the role of clear and distinct ideas, the relat…
Descartes' Cogito
Anti-Realism Against Methodology
The task of group rationality
The task of group rationality
The Adventure of Reason
In defence of truth
Origins and identities
A theory of group rationality
Truth, problem-solving and methodology
Imre Lakatos' Meta-Methodology
Musgrave's “Appraisals and Advice”
One recent problem in philosophy of science is, “Ought a methodology be construed, not merely as an instrument of appraisal , but also as a source of advice to the practising scientist(s)?” Imre Lakatos ([7], p. 174 and 178) and John Worrall ([11], p. 163), among others, have answered the question in the negative. Alan Musgrave disagrees. In a section entitled, “Appraisals and Advice,” in [9], Musgrave attempts to give us a deductive argument in …
Truth, problem-solving and methodology
A theory of group rationality
Annas
Annas' virtue ethics faces the Circularity Objection. She claims that a just soul is disposed to doing just acts. If a just soul is defined neither in terms of right acts nor rules, then the Circularity Objection is circumvented. Drawing upon Korsgaard's recent work, it is shown that Annas' argument faces anew the Circularity Objection. Then, I examine Annas' fresh attempts to avert the Circularity Objection by appealing to the community of the v…
Anti-Realism Against Methodology
Imre Lakatos' Meta-Methodology
Musgrave's “Appraisals and Advice”
One recent problem in philosophy of science is, “Ought a methodology be construed, not merely as an instrument of appraisal , but also as a source of advice to the practising scientist(s)?” Imre Lakatos ([7], p. 174 and 178) and John Worrall ([11], p. 163), among others, have answered the question in the negative. Alan Musgrave disagrees. In a section entitled, “Appraisals and Advice,” in [9], Musgrave attempts to give us a deductive argument in …
Imre Lakatos' Meta-Methodology
Truth, problem-solving and methodology
Origins and identities
A theory of group rationality
In defence of truth
The Adventure of Reason
The task of group rationality
The task of group rationality
Anti-Realism Against Methodology
Descartes' Cogito
Perhaps the most famous proposition in the history of philosophy is Descartes' cogito 'I think, therefore I am'. Husain Sarkar claims in this provocative interpretation of Descartes that the ancient tradition of reading the cogito as an argument is mistaken. It should, he says, be read as an intuition. Through this interpretative lens, the author reconsiders key Cartesian topics: the ideal inquirer, the role of clear and distinct ideas, the relat…
Descartes' Cogito
Annas
This paper is informed by two principles: the Partiality Principle and the Impartiality Principle. Relying upon a relatively-unknown argument in Kant, the latter principle is stated and defended. The former principle is shown to be connected to Annas’ claim, in her theory of virtue ethics, that no mature, responsible adult wants to be told what to do, as well as to her developmental account of teaching and learning of virtue. I argue that Annas’ …
Annas
Annas' virtue ethics faces the Circularity Objection. She claims that a just soul is disposed to doing just acts. If a just soul is defined neither in terms of right acts nor rules, then the Circularity Objection is circumvented. Drawing upon Korsgaard's recent work, it is shown that Annas' argument faces anew the Circularity Objection. Then, I examine Annas' fresh attempts to avert the Circularity Objection by appealing to the community of the v…
Epistemology (12 works) · Philosophy (12 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Argument (complex analysis) (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Philosophy and History of Science (3 works) · Philosophy of science (3 works) · Rationality (3 works) · Criticism and interpretation (2 works)