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Realisms Interlinked Objects, Subjects, and Other Subjects Also available from Bloomsbury Comparative Philosophy without Borders, edited by Arindam Chakrabarti and Ralph Weber Imagination: Cross-Cultural Philosophical Analyses, edited by Hans-Georg Moeller and Andrew Whitehead Indian Epistemology and Metaphysics, edited by Joerg Tuske Natural and Artifactual Objects in Contemporary Metaphysics, edited by Richard Davies Philosophy of Knowledge: A History, edited by Stephen Hetherington, Nicholas D. Smith, Henrik Lagerlund, Stephen Gaukroger, Markos Valaris The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art, edited by Arindam Chakrabarti The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Ethics, edited by Shyam Ranganathan Realisms Interlinked Objects, Subjects, and Other Subjects Arindam Chakrabarti BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 50 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3DP, UK 1385 Broadway, New York, NY 10018, USA BLOOMSBURY, BLOOMSBURY ACADEMIC and the Diana logo are trademarks of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc First published in Great Britain 2020 Copyright © Arindam Chakrabarti, 2020 Arindam Chakrabarti has asserted his right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as Author of this work. Cover design: Toby Way Cover image: Still Life with Self Portrait (oil on canvas), Gertler, Mark (1891–1939) © Leeds Museums and Galleries (Leeds Art Gallery) U.K./Bridgeman Images All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage or retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from the publishers. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc does not have any control over, or responsibility for, any third-party websites referred to or in this book. All internet addresses given in this book were correct at the time of going to press. The author and publisher regret any inconvenience caused if addresses have changed or sites have ceased to exist, but can accept no responsibility for any such changes. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. ISBN: HB: 978-1-3500-4446-3 ePDF: 978-1-3500-4447-0 eBook: 978-1-3500-4448-7 Typeset by Integra Software Services Pvt. Ltd To find out more about our authors and books visit www.bloomsbury.com and sign up for our newsletters. For Vrinda vi Contents List of Figures ix Acknowledgments x Part 1 Objects Introduction: Do You See What I See? 3 1 I Touch What I Saw 9 2 Non-particular Individuals 21 3 On Perceiving Properties 35 4 Seeing Daffodils, Seeing as Daffodils, and Seeing Things Called “Daffodils” 45 5 Truth, Recognition of Truth, and Thoughtless Realism 51 6 Idealist Refutations of Idealism 65 7 Externality, Difference, and Inherence (Samavāya): Udayana’s Refutation of Yogācāra Buddhist Pan-Mentalism 77 8 Is This a Dream? 91 9 The Object to a Verb: The Case of the Accusative 101 Part 2 Subjects 10 On Referring to the First Person 113 11 The Self at Other Times and in Other Bodies 127 12 Does Self-Awareness Turn the Self into an Object? 137 13 In Defense of an Inner Sense 145 14 Our Knowledge and Error about Our Own Cognitions 157 15 Fictionalism about the Mental 175 16 Nyāya Proofs for the Existence of the Self 185 Part 3 Other Subjects 17 Knowing You from the Bridge 197 18 The Grammar of Calling the Other 205 19 Knowing from the Words of Others 211 20 Can Another Person Teach Me What It Means? 225 viii Contents 21 Shadows of Ignorance 233 22 Concept Possession, Sense Experience, and Knowledge of a Language 247 23 On What There Will Be 255 24 Is There a World Out There? God Knows 273 25 Absence, Non-Existence, and Other Negative Things 285 Notes 293 Bibliography 316 Index 327 List of Figures 1 El Greco—An Allegory with a Boy Lighting a Candle in the Company of an Ape and a Fool (Fábula). The Picture Art Collection/Alamy Stock Photo 4 2 The Müller-Lyer Illusion 168 3 Shadow of What? 234
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