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Arindam Chakrabarti Earned a DPhil from Oxford University. The philosophy of language and logic, metaphysics, the philosophy of the mind and Indian philosophy are his major areas of specialization. He has been a visiting professor at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Edinburgh, UK, the Sanskrit University in Tirupati, India, at Trinity College, Cambridge and at the National Institute of Advanced Study, Bengaluru, India. In his teaching and research, Professor Chakrabarti has been trying to combine analytic, classical Indian (especially Ny ya and Kashmir Shaivism) and continental philosophies. Besides numerous papers in journals and anthologies, his major publications include his book on negative existential's and fictional discourse, Denying Existence and an introduction to twentieth-century Western epistemology in Sanskrit, as well as five books in Bangla, the latest on the philosophy of food and clothing. His co-edited volumes include Knowing from Words (with B.K. Matilal), Universals, Concepts and Qualities (with P.F. Strawson), Apoha - Buddhist Nominalism (with Mark Siderits and Tom Tillemans) and Mahabharata Now (with Sibaji Bandyopadhyay). The Eastern Philosophy of Consciousness and the Humanities Project (EPOCH), with its focus areas on imagination, concepts and emotion, has recently taken off under his direction