Metaphysical Idealism, a Contemporary Perspective

Ramesh Chandra Pradhan is former Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hyderabad, India. He obtained his PhD from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. He was a Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellow at the University of Oxford, England, and a National Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, India.Professor Pradhan specializes in the areas of analytic philosophy, the philosophy of Wittgenstein, the philosophy of language, the philosophy of the mind, and metaphysics. His most important publications are: Recent Developments in Analytic Philosophy (2001), The Great Mirror: An Essay on Wittgenstein’s Tractatus (2002), Language, Reality and Transcendence: An Essay on the Main Strands of Wittgenstein’s Later Philosophy (2008), Mind, Meaning and World: A Transcendental Perspective (2019), Metaphysics of Consciousness: The Indian Vedantic Perspective (2020) and The Early Philosophy of Daya Krishna (2021). He has also published approximately one hundred papers in philosophy journals and anthologies.