Human Minds and Cultures (eBook)

This book puts forward a harmonious analysis of similarities and differences between two concepts-human minds and cultures-and strives for a multicultural spectrum of philosophical explorations that could assist them in pondering the striking pursuit of envisaging human minds and cultures as an essential appraisal of philosophy and the social sciences. The book hinges on a theoretical understanding of the indispensable liaison between the dichotomy of minds and objectivity residing in semantic-ontological conjectures.

The ethnographic sense of cultures confines the scope of cultural scientism, an evolutionary paradigm on the functionalist turn, where one could enthral the cultural phenomenon from the contentment of the conflict of scientific quandaries. Hence, cultural relativism concedes that cultures have some descriptive contents, like customs, beliefs, moral codes, other minds, etc., that are followed by an individual or a group of people. However, the notion of societalsemiotics embarks on the 'semiotic conception of culture' that deploys modernity and values centred on ethical conjectures.

Human Minds and Cultures conspicuously attune the cultural edifice of moral minds and cope with the enduring prospects of ethics, genders, laws, and socio-political affairs. Essential reading for anyone with a sparkling interest in human minds and cultures.

Dr. Sanjit Chakraborty is an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Vellore Institute of Technology -AP University. Before that, he taught at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, the Indian Institute of Management Indore, and the Central University of Hyderabad. His philosophical venture was nourished under the guidance of Professor Hilary Putnam (Emeritus Professor, Harvard University) from 2008 to 2016. His work spans the topics of Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Science, Ethics and AI and Morality. Chakraborty's books include Engaging Putnam (De Gruyter, 2022), Living without God: A Multicultural Spectrum of Atheism (Springer, 2022), The Labyrinth of Mind and World: Beyond Internalism-Externalism (Routledge, 2020), Understanding Meaning and World: A Relook on Semantic Externalism (CSP, 2016), and Pursuits of Language (forthcoming). Chakraborty has extensively published many papers in much-respected peer-reviewed international journals and his works have been reviewed and cited in reputed international journals by noted scholars. Chakraborty has been invited for talks at different renowned institutions and universities overseas. Chakraborty holds the editor and referee positions in the journals of Human Affairs (De Gruyter), Journal of Scholarly Publishing (University of Toronto Press), Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence (Taylor and Francis), Culture and Dialogue (Brill), Research Ethics (Sage), Sophia (Springer) and book reviewer of Springer, Routledge, World Scientific Publishing and Palgrave Macmillan.