Thomas Kuhn had little to say about scientific change in biological science, and biologists are ambivalent about how applicable his framework is for their disciplines. We apply Kuhn’s account of paradigm change to evolutionary microbiology, where key Darwinian tenets are being challenged by two decades of findings from molecular phylogenetics. The chief culprit is lateral gene transfer, which undermines the role of vertical descent and the representation of evolutionary history as a tree of life. To assess Kuhn’s relevance to this (...) controversy, we add a social analysis of the scientists involved to the historical and philosophical debates. We conclude that while Kuhn’s account may capture aspects of the pattern of an episode of scientific change, he has little to say about how the process of generating new understandings is occurring in evolutionary microbiology. Once Kuhn’s application is limited to that of an initial investigative probe into how scientific problem-solving occurs, his disciplinary scope becomes broader. (shrink)

The present study examined the psychometric properties of the Chinese version of the Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire Short Form (TEIQue-SF). Analyses were performed using a sample of undergraduates (N = 585) recruited from four universities across China. Confirmatory factor analysis of the Chinese TEIQue-SF supported the one-factor structure of trait emotional intelligence. Measurement invariance analyses were conducted across the Chinese sample and a sample of Canadian undergraduate students (N = 638). Although the two samples demonstrated configural and partial metric invariance, (...) scalar invariance was not found. Cross-cultural implications and explanations of the present findings, as well as suggestions for future research are discussed. (shrink)

Classical work on Vedanta philosophy by Bādarāyaṇa; includes three commentaries.

On the concept of Avidyā in Indic philosophy.

Study on materialism in Indic philosophy.

Two Sanskrit texts focus new light on Prabhakara and Kumarila thoughts on Purva Mimamsa philosophy.

Collection of the Brahmasūtra of Bādarāyaṇa along with six commentaries.

Commentary on Brahmasūtra of Bādarāyaṇa, work on Vedanta philosophy.

Classical work on Vedanta by Bādarāyaṇa; includes Śārīraka vijñānam bhāṣya of Śrī Madhusūdana Ojhā.

Basic work on Vedanta philosophy; with Sanskrit commentary with Hindi translation.

Analytical study of Buddhist psychology.

Classical work on Vedanta; includes Bhāṣyaratnaprabhā of Govindānanda and Śārīrakamīmāṃsābhāṣya of Śaṅkarācārya.

Aphoristic work on Vedanta philosophy with commentaries.

Classical work on Vedanta philosophy; Urdu commentary translated in Hindi.

Aphoristic work on Vedanta philosophy with commentaries.

Aphoristic work on Vedanta philosophy; Sanskrit text with French translation.

Basic work, with three commentaries on Vedanta philosophy.

Critical study of the epistemological status of the proof, perception in relation to inference and verbal testimony with reference to Advaita philosophy.

Contributed seminar papers on concept of knowledge in Indian philosophy organised by Poornprajna Samshodhana Mandirm, Bangalore in March 2010.

Study on the concept of Dvaita Vedanta on Padavr̥ttisvarūpa (relation between work and meaning) according to the tenets of Madhva philosophy.

Cognitive Science, Volume 46, Issue 4, April 2022.

This piece presents the work of academics and architects in a collaborative venture. It provides an architectural design and a series of statements towards the hypothetical creation of an unconventional city centre in the Chinese city of Shenzhen. The idea is to create a linear university that would run the 20-kilometer length of the Shenzhen Strip: the 20K university. The contributors outline, in the diversity of their idioms, a complex spatial condition fundamental to life, and demonstrate new relationships between knowledge (...) and the city. The design of the proposed ‘open university space’ responds to two simultaneous and interrelated challenges: that posed to architecture, and that posed to science. The university would embody the meeting of these at the intersection of the urban infrastructure and the knowledge infrastructure. The purpose is thus also to develop the notion of knowledge, embodied in institutions, as urban infrastructure. (shrink)