The book traces the history of self-references from the early Greek period to the present. Comparisons are made between the Western and Indian versions of the Paradox. The author works out a solution of the problem from the perspective of Indian philosophy.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Madhumita Chattopadhyay
Madhumita Chattopadhyay is a Professor in the department of Philosophy, Jadavpur university from where she completed her PhD on Liar Paradox. Dr. Chattopadhyay was a Fellow of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla in 1999. She visited Japan with the Bukkyo dendo Kyokai fellowship in 2002. She taught at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA under the Fulbright Visiting Lecturer Scheme in 2004. She has also visited Budapest, Hungary in 2007 under the Indo-Hungarian educational exchange Program. Her areas of interest are philosophical logic, Buddhist Philosophy, Indian ethics and Comparative religion. She has authored two books –What to do with the Liar and Ratnakirti on Apoha. She has co-edited two other books –Ethics: An Anthology and Siksaksetre Parasparik Samparka (in Bengali). She has also published numerous scholarly articles in reputed journals.
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