I propose a new interpretation of Plato’s Parmenides. I avoid the assumption of Developmentalism, that Plato is criticising his own ‘middle’ theory of forms. Instead, I read the dialogue as Plato’s serious presentation of the Eleatic position. He shows that Eleatics’s counterintuitive thesis follows from the fundamental assumption of qualitati…[Read more]

I propose a new interpretation of Plato’s Parmenides. I avoid the assumption of Developmentalism, that Plato is criticising his own ‘middle’ theory of forms. Instead, I read the dialogue as Plato’s serious presentation of the Eleatic position. He shows that Eleatics’s counterintuitive thesis follows from the fundamental assumption of qualitati…[Read more]

The advancements made in generative AI over the last few years have been phenomenal. These systems can now generate content that is hard to distinguish from actual human output. In this paper I put forth a design for an augmented content generation system, which produces a story generated using OpenAI’s GPT system, before “musing” on, an revising…[Read more]

How do we know if animals can think? In extension of the previous debate on human-animal relations, this book analyzes the conditions and contexts of the scientific acquisition of our knowledge of animals. The current discussions within animal philosophy revolve around the three central questions of whether we can attribute a mind to animals, what…[Read more]

How do we know if animals can think? In extension of the previous debate on human-animal relations, this book analyzes the conditions and contexts of the scientific acquisition of our knowledge of animals. The current discussions within animal philosophy revolve around the three central questions of whether we can attribute a mind to animals, what…[Read more]

In current debates about the relationships between humans and nonhuman animals, knowledge about animals is often adopted from the sciences. However, this largely ignores the fact that relationships of this kind also exist in empirical animal research and that these constellations between researchers and the researched have both ethical and…[Read more]

In current debates about the relationships between humans and nonhuman animals, knowledge about animals is often adopted from the sciences. However, this largely ignores the fact that relationships of this kind also exist in empirical animal research and that these constellations between researchers and the researched have both ethical and…[Read more]

Animal welfare and animal rights issues have reached the curricula, agendas and priorities of a wide range of educational institutions and initiatives. Their actors are faced with the challenge of not only explaining the relevance of animal ethics and animal rights, but also conceptualising how to teach them: How can animal protection and animal…[Read more]

On the example of “The Walking Dead”, we demonstrate in how far the reception of pop culture narratives can serve not merely trivial entertainment, but epistemological interest as well. For this purpose, we introduce the term pop cultural secondary worlds and formulate the thesis that these can be used analogously to thought experiments. The…[Read more]

I contend that the modern discipline of Sociology, as understood in the West, has evolved into a socio-philosophy from within an existential system of theology. Two systems of philosophy confront one another in the contemporary world, i.e., classical philosophy based on the authority of Hellenistic philosophy and an existential philosophy based on…[Read more]

I contend that the modern discipline of Sociology, as understood in the West, has evolved into a socio-philosophy from within an existential system of theology. Two systems of philosophy confront one another in the contemporary world, i.e., classical philosophy based on the authority of Hellenistic philosophy and an existential philosophy based on…[Read more]

21 अप्रैल 2010 की रात को हरियाणा के हिसार जिला के मिर्चपुर में दबंग जाट समुदाय ने दलितों की बस्ती में लगा दी थी। इस अग्निकांड में 70 साल के बुर्जुग और उनकी अपंग बेटी जिंदा जला दिया गया था। उसके बाद मिर्चपुर के दलितों को गांव छोड़कर भागना पड़ा था।

अध्येता प्रमोद रंजन ने जुलाई, 2012 में मिर्चपुर का दौरा किया। वे जिला मुख्यालय हिसार में मिर…[Read more]

The pandemic has been the most vivid agent of change that many of us have known. But it has not changed everything: plenty of the institutions, norms, and practices that sustain racial capitalism, settler colonialism, and cisheteropatriarchy have either weathered the storm of the crisis or been nourished by its effects. And yet enough has changed…[Read more]

यह लेख जनवरी 2012 में द्विभाषी पत्रिका फारवर्ड प्रेस में प्रकाशित हुआ था। लेख में भारत में यूपीए की तत्कालीन सरकार की पिछड़ा वर्ग से संबंधित नीतियों की आलोचना की गई है। लेख में बताया गया है कि किस प्रकार कांग्रेस अन्य पिछड़ा वर्ग के निर्धारित आरक्षण को निर्मूल बनाने की कोशिश कर रहा है।

This article was published in January 2012. The article criticized the policies of the then UPA government in India related to backward classes. The article describes how the Congress is trying to eradicate the prescribed reservation for the Other Backward Classes.

भारत की हिंदुत्ववादी ताकतों के निशाने पर राम के बाद कृष्ण आएंगे। अनेक संगठन इसके लिए सक्रिय हैं। फरवरी, 2012 में प्रकाशित इस लेख में बताया गया है कि किस प्रकार न्यायालय के फैसले के जरिए इसकी पृष्ठभूमि बनाई गई है।

After Ram, Krishna will come under attack from Hindutva forces in India. Hindutva organizations are active in this direction. This article, published in February 2012, explains how the background has been created through the court’s decision.

यह लेख अप्रैल, 2011 के अंत में लिखा गया था। उस समय अन्ना हजारे भ्रष्टाचार विरोधी आंदोलन चरम पर था। इस लेख में इस आंदोलन के दलित-बहुजन विरोधी चरित्र को उजागर किया गया है।

लेख में बताया गया है कि किन कारणों से कॉरपोरेट घराने इस आंदोलन के समर्थक थे और किस प्रकार इसके मूल में लोकतंत्र की अवमानना निहित थी।

मध्यप्रदेश हाईकोर्ट ने 27 जनवरी, 2012 के अपने फैसले में राज्य की भाजपा सरकार द्वारा स्कूलों में ‘गीता सार’ पढ़ाए जाने को उचित ठहराते हुए कहा था कि गीता हिंदू धर्म ग्रंथ नहीं, बल्कि भारतीय दर्शन है। यह टिप्पणी उसी संदर्भ में है।

प्रमोद रंजन इस लेख के माध्यम से सामाजिक कार्यकर्ता राणा बैनर्जी के बहुमुखी प्रतिभा को सामने लाते हैं। पटना के संस्कृतिकर्मी राणा बैनर्जी ने वर्ष 2008 में गंगा में कूदकर आत्महत्या कर लिया था। जब कवि और लेखक आत्महत्या करने लगे तो यह समझ लेना चाहिए कि देश पर, समाज पर गहरा संकट आनेवाला है। आत्महत्या स्वजनित नहीं होती अपितु परिस्थितिजन्य होती है…[Read more]