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Eka-Elements as Chemical Pure Possibilities
From Mendeleev’sAIMendeleev, D.I. time on, the Periodic TablePeriodic table has been an attempt to exhaust all the chemical possibilities of the...
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How Mendeleev issued his predictions: comment on Andrea Woody
Much has been said about the accuracy of the famous predictions of the Russian chemist Dmitrii Ivanovich Mendeleev, but far less has been written on how...
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Periodic law, chemical elements and scientific discoveries: considerations from Norwood Hanson and Thomas Kuhn
The theme surrounding scientific discoveries is quite neglected in and about the sciences, especially in terms of historical and epistemological...
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Relational Realism and Practical Reason in Utpaladeva’s Sambandhasiddhi
One debate that occupied Pratyabhijñā philosophers and their Buddhist interlocutors was the question of the reality of sambandha , or relation. A...
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The Senses of Performance and the Performance of the Senses: The Case of the Dharmabhāṇaka’s Body
In the “Chapter on the Benefits to the Performer of the Dharma” ( dharmabhāṇakānuśaṁsāparivartaḥ ) in the Saddharmapuṇḍ arīka ( Lotus Sūtra ), the Buddha...
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Divine Relations: Jīva Gosvāmin and Thomas Aquinas on Acintya and Mystery
I argue that Jīva Gosvāmin’s (c. 1517–1608 ad ) concept of acintya and Thomas Aquinas’s (1225–1274 ad ) concept of mystery are similar. To make this...
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On the Proof Theory of Infinitary Modal Logic
The article deals with infinitary modal logic. We first discuss the difficulties related to the development of a satisfactory proof theory and then...
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The Permanent Self: How Many Attacks Can It Endure?
In this paper, we test the philosophical endurance of the Nyāya theory of the permanent self. We present a debate between those, who believe in a...
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Logical Argument in Vidyānandin’s Satya-śāsana-parīkṣā
The Jainas used variations of the pan-Indian sets of dialectical, epistemological, and logical principles in order to justify their ontological and...
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From Unobservable to Observable: Scientific Realism and the Discovery of Radium
I explore the process of changes in the observability of entities and objects in science and how such changes impact two key issues in the scientific...
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Prediction, accommodation and the periodic table: a reappraisal
The history of the diffusion and confirmation of Mendeleev’s periodic table of elements has proven to be a challenging testbed for contemporary...
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Name game: the naming history of the chemical elements: part 2—turbulent nineteenth century
The second article of the “Naming game…” series provides detailed information on the discovery and naming of elements in the nineteenth century....
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Cognitive Tools for Narrating the Past: A Study of Classical India
The classical Indian variety of history may be called ‘istory’. It is not completely true that no real importance was attached to istory in classical...
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How Many Pure Possibilities Are There? Or Contra Actualism
Independently or regardless of any actualization, possibilities are pure. Are such possibilities real? Actualism excludes the existence of individual...
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What Are Individual Pure Possibilities and for What Are They Good?
This introduction clarifies the nature of panenmentalism, which is an original modal metaphysics that the author introduced in 1999 and has...
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Searching for the Historical Bodhidharma in Goblet Words
This chapter suggests that the Bodhidharma/Huìkě encounter structurally reconfigures an episode in the “Inner Chapters” of the Zhuāngzǐ wherein...
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Vedāntic Analogies Expressing Oneness and Multiplicity and Their Bearing on the History of the Śaiva Corpus. Part II: Vivartavāda
This article, divided into two parts, traces and discusses two pairs of analogies invoked in Sanskrit(ic) literature to articulate the paradox of...