Bijoy H. Boruah
Professor of Philosophy
Department of Humanities & Social Sciences
Indian Institute of Technology

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Papers published

  1. ‘Two Godheads: The World and the Independent I’, in K. C. Pandey (ed.), Wittgenstein on Ethics and Religion (forthcoming)

  2. ‘Autonomy and the Virtue of Self-Legislation,’ in Bindu Miri & Heiko Sievers (eds.), Reason, Morality, and Beauty: Essays on the Philosophy of Immanuel Kant (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2007), pp. 118-133.

  3. ‘Pain in the Neck of a Theory of Meaning’, in R.C. Pradhan (ed.), Mind and Language, Vol. 1: A Western Perspective (New Delhi: Decent Books, 2006), pp. 18-44.

  4. ‘Inscription as Incantation: Literature as Incarnation of Human Subjectivity’, in Supriya Chaudhury (ed.), Literature and Philosophy: Essaying Connections (Kolkata: Papyrus, 2006), pp. 22-45.

  5. ‘Introduction: Objectivity in Social Understanding (Part I); Tradition and Culture (Part II)’, in Bijoy H Boruah & Ramashanker Misra (eds.), Social Reality and Tradition (Jaipur: Rawat Publications, 2006), pp. 11-34.

  6. ‘Social Reality and Social Theory’, in Bijoy H Boruah & Ramashanker Misra (eds.), Social Reality and Tradition (Jaipur: Rawat Publications, 2006), pp.137-146.

  7. ‘Literature and the Limits of Language’, in Franson Manjali (ed.), Poststructuralism and Cultural Theory: The Linguistic Turn and Beyond (New Delhi: Allied Publishers, 2006), pp. 9-22.

  8. ‘Virtue Metaphysics and Consciousness’, in Chong Kim-Chong and Yuli Liu (eds.), Conceptions of Virtue: East and West (Singapore: Marshall Cavendish, 2006), pp. 176-197.

  9. ‘Computation and Cognition: Looking through the Philosophical Lense’, Directions (The Magazine of IIT Kanpur), Volume 7, Number 3, February 2006, pp. 70-74.

  10. ‘Consciousness, Phenomenal Subjectivity and Objective Science’, in T D Singh and Samaresh Bandopadhyaya (eds.), Thoughts on Synthesis of Science and Religion (Calcutta: Bhaktivedanta Press, 2001), pp. 395-404.

  11. ‘Comments on the Note entitled ‘The Idea of Human Rights’ by Mrinal Miri’, Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, Volume XVII, No. 2, January-April, 2000, pp. 163-165.

  12. ‘Person and Value: Sketch for a Theory of Moral Personhood’ in S. K. Mohanty (ed.), Person, Mind and Value (New Delhi: Decent Books, 2000), pp. 1-37.

  13. ‘Life as Literature, Literature as Philosophy’, in A. Raghuramaraju (ed.), Existence, Experience and Ethics (New Delhi: D. K. Printworld, 2000), pp. 157-166.

  14. ‘Making Sense of the Text: Context-bound Meaning in Boundless Context’, Summerhill: IIAS Review, Volume V, No. 2, December 1999.

  15. ‘The Original Position and the Concept of a Person’, in P. K. Mahapatra et. el. (eds.), Social Justice: Philosophical Perspectives (New Delhi: D. K. Printworld, 1999), pp. 128-140.

  16. ‘The Human Point of View’, The Visva-Bharati Journal of Philosophy, Volume XXXIII, No. I & II, August 1997-February 1999, pp. 50-56.

  17. ‘Criticism and the Cunning of Reason’, Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences (Journal of the Inter-University Centre for Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla), Volume V, No. 1, 1998, pp. 1-16.

  18. 'The Availability of Philosophical Ideas: Sketching the State of the Philosophical Art in Contemporary India,' Summerhill: IIAS Review, Shimla, Volume III, No.2, November 1997, pp. 14-15.

  19. 'Recalcitrant Quasi-Cartesianism in Recent Philosophy of Mind,' Indian Philosophical Quarterly, Special Number: Rene Descartes, vol. xxiii, no. 1-2, January-April, 1996, pp. 141-149.

  20. 'Tragic Reality and the Tragic Transfiguration of Life,' S. Jethmalani & P.C. Kar (eds.), The Burden of Poetic Consciousness, University of Rajasthan Philosophy Series: 2 (Jaipur: University of Rajasthan, 1996), pp. 54-65.

  21. ‘The Non-relational Foundation of Moral Reality’, in P. K. Sen and R. R. Verma (eds.), The Philosophy of P. F. Strawson, (New Delhi: Indian Council of Philosophical Research, 1995), pp. 327-345.

  22. ‘Pre-epistemology and Groundless Certainty’, in Rekha Jhanji (ed.), Knowledge, Culture and Action (New Delhi: Ajanta Publishers, 1994), pp. 99-111.

  23. “Narrative and Fictionality’, Punjab University Research Bulletiln: Arts, Volume XXXV, No. 1-2, April-October, 1994, pp. 21-32.

  24. ‘Freedom in Perspective’, in P. K. Mahapatra et. el. (eds.) Action, Freedom and Responsibility, Utkal Studies in Philosophy, Monograph Series, Volume I, (Bhubaneswar: University of Utkal, 1992), pp. 54-62.

  25. ‘Fictional Emotion and Belief’, in Jaidev (ed.), On Literature (Shimla: Indian Institute of Advanced Study, 1990), pp. 1-11.

  26. ‘Fictional Emotion, Quasi-desire and Background Belief’, Indian Philosophical Quarterly, Volume XVI, No. 4, 1989, pp. 409-417.

  27. ‘Seeing in the Mind’s Eye’, Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, Volume VI, No. 3, 1989, pp. 119-130.

  28. ‘On Emotional Response to Fiction: A Problem in Analytical Aesthetics’, Indian Journal of American Studies, Special Issue on Survey on Theory, Volume XVIII, No. 1, 1988,pp.49-55.

  29. ‘Emotion and Belief’, Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, Volume V, No. 1, 1987, pp. 1-20.

  30. ‘Strawson’s Descriptive Metaphysics’, Indian Philosophical Quarterly, Student Supplement, Volume III, No. 4, 1978, pp. 6-13.

  31. ‘Strawson’s Concept of a Person’, Indian Philosophical Quarterly, Student Supplement Volume II, No. 2, 1976, pp. 1-10.