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    The Corporate Cognitive-Existential Delinking:An Ethical Appraisal
    (International Journal of Management, 2017-01) Yadav, Anupam
    The paper argues that the corporate rationality is essentially delinking of the cognitive-existential integrality and hence ethically threatening. The examination is inspired by Gadamer's critique of the Kantian rule-bound, axiomatic morality from the perspectives of the classical Roman idea of sensuscommunis (inherent in which is the idea of good or social solidarity) and the Aristotelian ethics. Gadamer's critique is insightful in analyzing the nature of agency in the corporate domain and its moral implications. Against the backdrop of this moral discourse, the paper concedes that the detached, theoretical corporate functioning is abortive of the sense of good defying compensation even in the idea of corporate social responsibility in which we generally capture the essence of corporate ethics and its existential concerns.
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    Epistemology Revisited: A Feminist Critique
    (Bridgewater State University, 2018) Yadav, Anupam
    The Platonic legacy of Western epistemology has been severely attacked for its dominant exclusivist and coercive rationality in the discourses of anti-foundationalism and anti-representationalism, which have also given rise to several alternative epistemologies. The feminist discourse challenges the exclusivist and appropriationist logic of Western epistemology, or science, for being highly gender-biased and oppressive. Weininger’s remark that ‘No woman is really interested in science, she may deceive herself and many good men, but bad psychologists, by thinking so’ is one of such silencing masculine diktats that have deeper roots in the sexist, racist and classist biases. The feminists’ revolts against the power/knowledge dynamics and subsequent epistemological directions emerge from a reflexive undertaking into the nature and production of knowledge. The paper examines the objectivity debates within the feminist science circles in this regard and explores the space between the oppressive dichotomies of nature/culture, core/peripheral, absolute/historical to articulate an alternative epistemology in the feminists’ larger political program of social justice.
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    Solidarity, Knowledge and Social Hope
    (Athens Journal of Philosophy, 2022-06) Yadav, Anupam
    The paper investigates the ideas of solidarity and social hope textured in critiquing western epistemology and politics of knowledge production. Richard Rorty’s anti-foundationalist, anti-representationalist critique argues for the de-hierarchization of knowledge-claims. The cultural-conversational turn to knowledge and social hope in the creation of democratic community finds its rationale in the conception of human solidarity, in the most praiseworthy human abilities of trust and cooperation. The idea of social hope, a critical engagement of the knower with knowledge production in the feminist discourse, however, is another anti-essentialist stance that illuminates the various axes of domination, which the pragmatization of knowledge and methods does not account for. It is in this context, that the paper examines the politics of solidarity vis-à-vis knowledge construction in Donna Haraway, Chandra Talpade Mohanty and Marnia Lazreg and argues that solidarity as dissent provides the knower a chance to articulate hope in the transformative goals of knowledge and education
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    Human Agency and the Quest for Selfhood
    (Tulika Books, 2023-01) Yadav, Anupam
    ‘To have self-knowledge is to know thyself’ – this philosophical dictum of ultimate knowledge has prevailed in the discourses of the Upanishads and classical Greek philosophy. It is more explicitly analysed in contemporary philosophical, moral psychology that traces the epistemic and normative content of knowledge claim along with the normative attitude of the knower – the person. The performative character of the person unfolds the involved normative content in the very articulation of action. Many contemporary philosophers, such as Akeel Bilgrami, Crispin Wright, Christine Korsgaard and Mrinal Miri, have explicitly discussed the relevance of self-knowledge vis-a-vis the discourse of normativity. This volume addresses the notion of self-knowledge as relevant in the formation of moral identity, and also focuses on the broad themes enunciated by Akeel Bilgrami in his seminal book, Self-Knowledge and Resentment
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    Critical Perspectives on the National Policy on Education 2016
    (Sage, 2017-08) Nair, Harikrishnan Gopinadhan; Bhattacharya, Somdatta; Shukla, Tanu; Yadav, Anupam
    This article brings together critical perspectives on a broad range of issues that emerge from a reading of the National Policy on Education 2016. The issues vary from accountability to transdisciplinarity and from the marginalization of transgender people to value education. Such a complex task of critiquing this policy document cannot be accomplished by an individual alone. This task must be borne by a team of scholars with training in diverse fields. Working in a team however generates divergences as well as convergences. Yet no attempt has been made to iron out the creases emanating from differences in opinions, nor persist with the search for an underlying singularity, nor enforce a consensus. Such is the uncertain nature of the task of reforming higher education.