CALL FOR PAPERS
FOR
THIRD ISSUE
LOGIC AND LANGUAGE: THE INDIAN AND WESTERN STANDPOINTS
The uniqueness of philosophy is, in the one hand, what philosophy means—what philosophy does and on the other hand, from the beginning, it has been searching for the answer of the question—What Reality is? Though Reality is one and only one, following Krishna Chandra Bhattacharya, ‘All philosophy is systematic symbolism and symbolism necessarily admits of alternatives.’ whether the Indians or the Westerns have been searching the alternative ways, following the need of the time, how to discover the same Reality i.e., the Ultimate Truth per se. The ways are sometimes prepared by the dust of logic, sometimes linguistic analysis and sometimes conceptual analysis and so on. The Indian Philosophers and linguists are much concerned with philosophical issues having to do with language, especially with theories of meaning, while the Indian logicians develop both a formal-material canonical inference schema along with a theory of fallacies. The later Navya Nyāya logicians also develop powerful and intricate techniques of language.
From the Western perspective, the specific interest includes theories of truth, semantics, paradoxes, applicability of mathematics, theoretical syntax, pragmatic logic and non-classical logic and so on. The ninetieth century and onward is known as a Land Mark of linguistic analysis in such a way that for the philosophers, especially for the Logical positivists, linguistic confusions are treated as the source of any problem in philosophy and thereby philosophical analysis depends upon the applicability of formal language developed by Russell, Frege and so on. Wittgenstein in his both early and later life applies the linguistic analysis in order to uplift philosophical thinking on the paradigm of therapy. However, later on, linguistic phenomenology covers the meaning of expressions, social conventions, speaker’s intuition, speech act theories and so on.
The selections in this volume will discuss Indian as well as Western treatments of topics in logic and the philosophy of language.
Authors are requested to send their papers (within 3000 to 5000 words) along with an abstract (within 300 words) of the papers within 15th June, 2023 with the subject: Paper for the second issue of SKBU Journal of Philosophy.
Professor (Dr.) Arnabi Sen
Chief Editor
SKBU Journal of Philosophy
