Papers by Raghuramaraju Raju
Brings together significant essays on Gandhi by noted Indian scholars including A L Basham, Ashis... more Brings together significant essays on Gandhi by noted Indian scholars including A L Basham, Ashis Nandy, Bhikhu Parekh among others. This volume attempts to reassess the continuing relevance of Gandhi.
Reasoning Indian Politics, 2017
Debates in Indian Philosophy, 2007
Calibrating Western Philosophy for India, 2019
AI & Society, 1995
The field of artificial intelligence (AI) like most other fields, has its votaries and its critic... more The field of artificial intelligence (AI) like most other fields, has its votaries and its critics. Within these terms, one also finds an ongoing debate over approaches to AI, that between human-centred and machine-centred approaches. The votaries seem to have found their enterprise on the idea of a thinking machine, a machine imitative of the human mind. The critics, who challenge the project of AI reject the reduction of the human person to its "intelligent" functions. Dreyfus and Dreyfus (1986), for instance, seek to widen the ambit of what constitutes the human to include such non-cognitive qualities as institution, judgement, emotion, etc. They seem to be thus confronting the cognitivist closures of the AI thrust, highlighted thereby its exclusions and opening up of what they consider to be the realm of the "human". It is not as though the field of AI has been a mute witness to those challenges. Indeed there have been efforts within AI to develop programs that "have the elements of a theory of heuristic (as contrasted with algorithmic) problem solving". This theory can be used "both to understand human heuristic processes and to stimulate such processes with digital computers. Intuition, insight and learning are no longer exclusive possessions of humans: any large high-speed computer can be programmed to exhibit them also" (Simon and Nowell in Vivek, 1992) 1. This almost ready made co-option of the terms of the radical critique represented in Dreyfus is due, primarily, I should think, to the ambiguity in their concept and ontological substantiating of the realm of the non-cognitive. Importantly, it illustrated that the radical critique of AI inhabits the very ground that it arraigns against. The questions: how is the non-cognitive to be postulated and constructed? These seem to be beyond the frames of Dreyfus' s critique. Even as the critics challenge the reduction of the human within the project of AI, they do not seem to explore the contents facilitating, indeed necessitating, this reduction. In this paper, I shall explore the intellectual context of facilitating this idea, as also the critique, of the thinking machine. I will argue, that this self is a self transported from the notion of the modern man.
The Indian Economic & Social History Review, 2015
In the context of analysing the relation between the master and the disciple, Ramakrishna Pramaha... more In the context of analysing the relation between the master and the disciple, Ramakrishna Pramahamsa and Swami Vivekananda, the article brings together different unconnected writings for a systematic and cumulative argumentation on this important relation. This is undertaken with reference to Ramakrishna’s strict adherence to equality amongst all religions and his disciple’s claim for the superiority of Hinduism in general and Advaita Vedanta in particular. Having set the background, it further embarks on explaining the possible reasons for deviations by the pupil from the master by brining into the centre-stage the whole sale claims of the entire nineteenth-century scholarship as derivative by Indologists like Hacker. The failure to recognise these important dimensions imbricated in this relation is traced firstly to the general failure in reading the nature and logic of modernity, particularly, the invariance between its attitude towards both its own pre-modern and those non-Weste...
Modern Frames and Premodern Themes in Indian Philosophy, 2017
Indian Economic & Social History Review, 2010
Indian Economic & Social History Review, 2002
’Parsi lustre on Indian soil’. Although the author has done an enormous amount of reading on the ... more ’Parsi lustre on Indian soil’. Although the author has done an enormous amount of reading on the Parsis and sifted through legal materials which are not easily accessible, the end result is, on the whole, disappointing. The reader in search of details on the legal history of the Parsis will undoubtedly find nourishment in this work, but the author does not appear to have had any ambitions beyond the reconstruction of this legal history. Of recent books about the Parsis, of which there are few, T.M. Luhrmann’s The Good Parsi stands out as more focused and informed by a better knowledge of social science theory. The Parsis certainly deserve more attention from historians and social scientists, taking into account recent developments in methodology of studies of ethnic communities. Future studies might undoubtedly benefit from some of the empirical research done by Jesse Palsetia, especially as far as legal problems are concerned. But it remains a mystery how such a raw piece of research could have been published as a book by a reputable publishing house like Brill.
Calibrating Western Philosophy for India, 2019
HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, 2019
Choice Reviews Online, 2007
Enduring Colonialism, 2009
Modern Frames and Premodern Themes in Indian Philosophy, 2017
Preface: An Alchemist of our Times 1. Philosophies of Path and Purpose Jonardon Ganeri 2. Philoso... more Preface: An Alchemist of our Times 1. Philosophies of Path and Purpose Jonardon Ganeri 2. Philosophy as Poetry and Conversation Michael McGhee 3. On Hating One's Own Children Sanil V. 4. Notes Towards the Definition of 'Identity' Akeel Bilgrami 5. Does Kant Hold that Ought implies Can? Shyam Ranganathan 6. Kant on the Sublime: The Subject and the Question of Difference Udaya Kumar 7. Virtue Ethics as Virtue Metaphysics Bijoy H. Boruah 8. On Quiet Conversation: Ethics and the Art of Self-Conversation Sundar Sarukkai 9. Conversations in Shimla about the Meaning of Life and the Nature of Democracy Noel O' Sullivan 10. Kindred Spirits: Ahimsa and the Metaphysics of Nonviolence Leela Gandhi 11. Forgotten Moral Exemplars of the West: A Critique of Akeel Bilgrami's Projection of Gandhi A. Raghuramaraju 12. Secularism and the Devout: A Gandhian Reading Bindu Puri 13. Moral Choices: Gandhi and Weber on Capitalism and Conscience T. N. Madan 14. Imagining Incommensurables: ...
Philosophy and India, 2013
Philosophy and India, 2013
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