A Concise Dictionary of Philosophy

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This dictionary serves as an immediate reference book to the teachers and the students of philosophy and also to the general readers.  It covers as many as seventeen hundred entries that include the most commonly used philosophical terms of the East and the West and the brief biographies of prominent philosophers of the Orient as well as the Occident.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR K Srinivas

Dr. K Srinivas (b.1955) is a Professor of Philosophy at the Pondicherry University, Punducherry. An expert in epistemology, analytic philosophy, philosophy of science, logic and Indian philosophy, he was a visiting faculty at the University of Oregon, Eugene, USA in 2000 and a visiting scholar at universities in Germany and Thailand. He has published a number of articles in reputed journals of philosophy and presented papers in national and international seminars. His reputed works include A.J. Ayer’s Logical Positivism (1990), A Dictionary of Philosophy (1993), A Concise Dictionary of Philosophy (2007) and Morality, Freedom and Social Construction (2010).

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Vampaty Kutumba Sastry

Professor V. Kutumba Sastry (1950) is currently Vice-Chancellor, Rashtriya Samskrit Samsthan, New Delhi.  He is a well-known Vedic scholar.  His areas of interest include philosophy in general and Advaita Vedanta and Sanskrit poetics in particular.  His publications include monographs, anthologies, and research papers on Advaita Vedanta.  He is the recipient of several prestigious awards from several State Governments in India as well as one from the Windsor University, Canada for promoting Sanskrit studies.  Recently he has been elected as the President of International Association of Sanskrit Studies, Paris.  Professor Sastry traveled widely to spread the message of the Vedas and the Advaita Vedanta in countries such as U.S.A., England, Kazakhstan, Finland, Thailand, and Scotland. 

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Title
A Concise Dictionary of Philosophy
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
8124604002
Length
xii+426p., 24cm.
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