Laxminarayan Lenka

Professor

Email: lenka2155@uohyd.ac.in,

lenkanehu@gmail.com

Phone: +9140-23133505

Education +
- Ph.D. (Univ. of Hyderabad) , 1992
- M.Phil. (Univ. of Hyderabad),1987
- MA (Utkal University),1985
Employment History +
- Professor, University of Hyderabad, 2022-
- Associate Professor, University of Hyderabad, 2018 –2022
- Associate Professor, North-Eastern Hill University
- Assistant Professor, North-Eastern Hill University
Areas of Specialization +
- Analytic Philosophy
- Western Epistemology
- Philosophy of Language
- Philosophy of Wittgenstein
- Speech Acts
Research Supervision +
- Parthiban A.V., Epistemology
- Sreenish S., Role of Intentionality in Searle’s Theory of Perception
- Mohammed Suhail E.M., Epistemic Warrant
- Amit Kumar Chourasia, Reframing Feminism from the Perspectives of Luce Irigaray, Judith Butler,and MichelFoucault
- Venkateswara Reddy K., Metasemantics
- Pooja Choudhury, Social Reality
- Lalruatfela, Wittgenstein and Modern Western Civilisation (Post-Doctoral Fellow)
Teaching/Research Interests +
- Analytic Philosophy
- Epistemology
- Modern Empiricism
- Postmodernism
- Wittgenstein
- Philosophical Writing
Published Papers +
- Lenka L. (2020), “Are Cultural Values Transcendental?”, in K.C. Pandey(Ed.) Wittgensteinian Realms of Religious Beliefs, Values and Metaphysics, Occam Academic Press, Ontario, 2020, pp. 93-98.
- Lenka L. (2019), “How to make a non-defective sincere promise?”, in H.Sahoo (Ed.) Ethics: Theory and Practice, Lipika Publications, Jatni,Puri, 2019, pp. 75-79.
- Lenka,L., ’Knowing One’s Own Self: An Analysis of Vivekananda’s Approach to One’s Identity’, Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, Vol. 35, No. 2, January 09, 2018, pp. 1-12, Electr.ISSN: 2363-9962. Print ISSN: 0970-7794 Peer Reviewed and Indexed in Scopus and UGC-CARE List.
- Lenka L. (2017), “The PLA-based Philosophical Anthropology”, in Purbayan Jha & Sukumar Chandra Roy (ed.) Interrogating the ‘Self’, Levant Books, Kolkata,2017, pp.69-78. ISBN: 978-9384106-92-8
- Lenka L. (2016), “Actual and Hypothetical Instances of Closure Failures”, Indian Journal of Analytic Philosophy, PG Department of Philosophy, Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, Vol. VI, No. 1, 2016, pp.21-26. ISSN: 0976-2337
- Lenka, L., ’Sabda as Linguistic Analysis: An Exposition of Ganeswar Misra’s Analysis of Sat Cit Ananda’, Ravenshaw Journal of Philosophy,Vol. II, 2016, pp. 74-79, ISSN: 2395-3209, Peer Reviewed and UGC CARE List
- Lenka, L., ’If Belief Closure fails then Knowledge Closure fails’, Philosophical Papers: Journal of the Department of Philosophy, University of North Bengal, Vol. XI, March 2015, pp. 1-6. ISSN:0976-4496 Peer Reviewed and UGC-Care List.
- Lenka L. (2015), “Can there be a transcendental self?” in Ranjan Kumar Panda (Ed.) Language, Mind and Reality: A Reflection on philosophical thoughts of R.C. Pradhan, Overseas Press, New Delhi, pp.79-89.
- Lenka L. (2015), “On Descartes’ Dream Argument”, Keanean Journal of Arts, An Annual Arts Journal of Lady Keane College, Shillong, Vol.11, pp. 86-95. ISSN: 2348-1110.
- Lenka L. (2014), QUINE’S PHILOSOPHY (Anti-foundationalism through Indeterminacy and other theses), Northern Book Centre, New Delhi. ISBN: 978-81-7211-330-8. (Book)
- Lenka L. & Vanlalnghak (Eds.) (2013), Philosophy of Cultures: A contemporary understanding, Akansha Publishing House, New Delhi,ISBN: 978-81-8370-347-5. (Coedited Book)
- Lenka L. & Vanlalnghak (2013), “Introduction” in Lenka L. & Vanlalnghak (Eds.) (2013), Philosophy of Cultures: A contemporary understanding, Akansha Publishing House, New Delhi, pp. 1-11.
- Lenka L. (2012), “Chantal Bax: Subjectivity after Wittgenstein and the ‘Death of Man’”, Philosophy in Review, XXXII, No. 5, pp. 348-350. (Book Review)
- Lenka L. (2012), “On Grice’s Analysis of Meaning”, in R.C. Pradhan(Ed.) Linguistic Representations: The Road Ahead (Hyderabad Studies in Philosophy, No. 10), Decent Books, New Delhi, pp. 129-152.
- Lenka L. (2011), “Skepticism and Dretske’s Zebra” in Prajit K. Basu& S.G. Kulkarni (Eds.) Epistemology, Science and Cognition, (Hyderabad Studies in Philosophy, no. 6), Decent Books, New Delhi, pp.37-51.
- Lenka L. (2008), “Dialectics of the self: Transcending Charles Taylor by Ian Fraser, Imprint Academic, 2007” Metapsychology Online Reviews,Jul 14th 2008, Volume 12, Issue 29. (Book Review) http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/viewdoc.php?type =bookid = 4345
- Lenka L. (2007), “Private Language: Recognizing a useful nonsense,”AI & Society, Vol. 21, pp.14-26.https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-006-0040-y
- Lenka L. (2007), “Language, Image and Silence: Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein on Ethics and Aesthetics by Onno Zijlstra, Peter Lang,New York, 2006”, Philosophy in Review, December 2007, Vol. XXVII,No. 6, Academic Printing and Publishing, Canada., pp. (Book Review)
- Lenka L. (2007), ”Reinventing the soul: Posthumanistic Theory and Psychic Life by Mari Ruti, Other Press, 2006”, Metapsychology Online Reviews, January 23rd, 2007, Vol. 11, Issue 4. (Book Review) http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/viewdoc.php?type = bookid = 3462cn = 394
- Lenka L. (2007), “Philosophizing the Everyday: Revolutionary Praxis and the Fate of Cultural Theory by John Roberts, Pluto Press, 2006,Metapsychology Online Reviews, June 12, 2007,Vol. 11, No. 24. (Book Review) ISSN 1931-5716.http:// metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/viewdoc.php?type =deid = 3676
- Lenka L. (2006),”Memory and Understanding: Concept Formation in Proust’s A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu by Renate Bartsch, John Benjamins, 2005”, Metapsychology Online Reviews, August 1st, 2006,Vol.10, Issue 31. (Book Review)http:// metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/viewdoc.php?type =bookid = 3230cn = 396
- Lenka L. (2006), ”Becoming a subject: Reflections in Philosophy and Psychoanalysis by Marcia Cavell, Oxford University Press, 2006”, Metapsychology Online Reviews, October 31st, 2006, Vol. 10, Issue 44. http://www.citeulike.org/user/lenkanehu/article/921348(Book Review)
- Lenka L. (2005), “Can a justified true belief be equated with ignorance?” Vanlalnghak & Siby K.George (Eds.) Tribe, Culture, Art,DVS Publishers, pp. 117-131.
- Lenka L. (2004), “Rationality and the lottery paradox,” Sujata Miri(Ed.) Rationality and Tribal Thought, Mittal Publications, N. Delhi,pp. 37-40.
- Lenka L. (2003), ”Saral Jhingran: Ethical Relativism and Universalism”, Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, XX, No. 3,2003, pp. 246-251. (Book Review)
- Lenka L. (2003), “The dogma of determinism,” Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, Vol. 20, No.1, pp. 153-157.
- Lenka L. (2002), “Can man be civilized and yet violent?” Philosophy and the LifeWorld, Vol. 4, pp. 1-6.
- Lenka L. (2002), ”Sanjay kumar Shukla: Kant’s Copernican Revolution” Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, XIX, No.2,2002, pp. 201-207. (Book Review)
- Lenka L. (2001), “Can the ‘game’ of Wittgenstein entertain the ‘essence’ of Daya Krishna?” (Discussion), Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 218-224.
- Lenka L. (2001), “The Paradox of Rule-following,” Indian Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 195-200.
- Lenka L. (2000), “The cartesian privacy and antara bhasa,” Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, Vol. 17, No. 3, pp. 81-98.
- Lenka L. (1998), “Foundationalism beneath Wittgenstein’s private language argument,” The Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 4, No. 3-4, pp.135-148.
- Lenka L. (1996), “A Dialogue between L1 and L2: Discussing seven kinds of privacy,” Darshan International, Vol. 36, No; 1, pp. 25-43.
- Lenka L. (1996), “Linguistic solipsism,” (Discussion), Indian Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 23, No. 3-4, pp. 374-75.
- Lenka L. (1995), “The interesting and uninteresting privacies,” Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, Vol. 13, No. 1, pp.29-38.
- Lenka L. (1995), “Foundationalism vs. Naturalism: Examining Audi’s arguments against Kornblith,” Jadavpur Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 7,No. 1, pp. 19-35.
- Lenka L. (1994), “An understanding of contemporary foundationalism,” Indian Philosophical Quarterly, Students’ Supplement, Vol. 21 No. 4, pp. 13-25.
- Lenka L. (1994), “On the conditions of illocutionary acts qua the minimal units of linguistic communication,” Indian Philosophical Quarterly,Students’ Supplement, Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 11-20.
- Lenka L. (1993), “The intercurrence of Quine’s indeterminacy and Wittgenstein’s private language argument,” The Visva-Bharati Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. A21-A23.
- Lenka L. (1993), “Indeterminacy: An exposition,” Indian Philosophical Quarterly, Students’ Supplement, Vol. 20, No. 4, pp. 9-12.
- Lenka L. (1993), “Can’t we doubt meaning?” Indian Philosophical Quarterly, Students’ Supplement, Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 1-10.
- Lenka L. (1992), “Foundationalism beneath the Analytic-Synthetic distinction,” The Visva-Bharati Journal of Philosophy, Vol.29, pp. 79-89.
- Lenka L. (1992), The constative-performative distinction in a justificatory perspective, Indian Philosophical Quarterly, Students’ Supplement, Vol. 19, No. 4. pp. 17-26.
- Lenka L. (1992), “The sense of grounding speech act on use,” Indian Philosophical Quarterly, Students’ Supplement, Vol. 19, No. 3, pp.1-17.
- Lenka L. (1991), “Wittgenstein’s private language argument and Quine’s indeterminacy thesis: Two contrasting models of semantics,” Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 1-12.
- Lenka L.(1990), “Formulation of Grice’s three intentions,” Indian Philosophical Quarterly, Students’ Supplement, Vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 23-32.
- Lenka L. (1990), “MeaningN and MeaningNN: An exposition of the unformed Grician intentions,” Indian Philosophical Quarterly, Students’ Supplement, Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 1-9
Invited Papers in Conferences/Seminars +
- Is Pain Public without the Requirement of a Public Criterion? at ICPR sponsored 5th Wittgenstein Conference on Wittgenstein and Indian Theories of Language and Epistemology, Organized by Department of Philosophy, University of Lucknow, during 29 -30 December 2020.
- Wriggling out of limit-contradiction, 4th Wittgenstein Conference, The Various Aspects of Indian Philosophy and Wittgenstein, ICPR Aca- demic Centre, Lucknow, 28th t0 30th December, 2019.
- On the Language-game of Pain and the Limit Contradiction, UGC sponsored interdisciplinary national seminar on Buddha and Wittgen- stein on Culture and Values, organized by Centre for Mahayana Bud- dhist Studies, Acharya Nagarjuna University, Guntur, AP.
- How to Bridge the Gap between Words and Deeds”, Interdisciplinary Conference on Sustainable Development, organized by UGC-CAS-II, CESP, SSS, JNU, 13-14 March 2019.
- How to make a Non-defective Sincere Promise?, at ICSSR sponsoredNational Seminar on Ethics: Theory and Practice, organized by De- partment of Philosophy, BJB Autonomous College, Bhubaneswar, 19- 20 August 2018.
- Are Cultural values transcendental?, the 3rd Ludwig Wittgenstein In- ternational Conference, Wittgenstein on Culture and Value, organized by Department of HSS, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, 24-26 November 2018.
- The PLA-based Philosophical Anthropology, National Seminar on Ex- istence and Morality: Philosophical Perspectives, 10th and 11th March, 2016.
- Knowing one’s own self: an analysis of Vivekananda’s approach to one’s identity, ICPR sponsored Teachers Meeton The Crisis of multiple Identities in Contemporary World, Dept. of HSS, IIT Guwahati, 15th to 17th February, 2016.
- Sabda as linguistic analysis: an exposition of Ganeswar Misra’s analysis of Sat Cit Ananda, ICPR sponsored National Seminar on the philoso- phy of Ganeswar Misra, 21st and 22nd January 2016.
- On Descartes’ Dream Argument, Usha Bhattachryya Memorial Lec- ture, Lady Keane College, Shillong, 7th September, 2015.
- DeGettiering Knowledge: An Understanding of Prof. Amitabha Das- gupta’s Believer.International conference on Internationality, Norma- tivity and Objectivity, Organized by the Department of Philosophy, University of Hyderabad from January 8th to 10th, 2015.
- Can there be a transcendental self?” International Conference on Lan- guage, Mind and Reality: A reflection on philosophical thoughts of R.C. Pradhan, Department of HSS, IIT Bombay, 5th to 7th March, 2012.
- On Grice’s Analysis of Meaning, National Seminar on Linguistic Repre- sentations: The Road Ahead , Dept. of Philosophy, Hyderabad, 2011.
- Skepticism and Dretske’s Zebra, at a National seminar on Epistemology & Cognition, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, March, 2007.
- On the strategies for and against the refutation of knowledge closure, at a National seminar on Mind and Language, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, in 2004.
- Is deductive inference justification-preserving?, at a National seminar on Creativity and Cognitive Science, University of Hyderabad, Hyder- abad, in 2004.
- On Gettier’s problem, at a seminar as part of the Orientation Course, University of Burdwan, Burdwan, WB, 2004.
- The possibility of Private Language, seminar as a part of Refresher Course, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, AP, 2003.
- The Dogma of Determinism, at a ICPR sponsored National Seminar on Freedom and Determinism, J.B. College, Jorhat, Assam, India, 2002.
- Rationality and Lottery Paradox, at a National Seminar on Rationality and Tribal Thought, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, India,2001.
- An Understanding of Non-violence, at a National Seminar on Non- violence, Peace and National Integration, North-Eastern Hill Univer- sity, Shillong, India,1999.
- An understanding of PI:201 , at a Weekly Seminar of the Department of Philosophy, NorthEastern Hill University, Shillong, India,1999.
- Certainty in Mathematics, at a Weekly Seminar of the Department of Mathematics, IIT Madras, India, 1998.
- The Logic of Deliberate Misunderstanding, at a seminar for the Ad- vanced Short Course on Phenomenology, ICPR, Butler Palace, Luc- know, India, 1996.
- Seven Kinds of Privacy, at a Weekly Seminar in the Department of Philosophy, University of Liverpool, UK, 1995.
- Interesting and Uninteresting Privacies, a lecture in Stapledon Society, University of Liverpool, UK, 1995.
Invited Talks +
- Lenka, L., Delivered a lecture on ”What is Philosophy?” at a Webinar on the occasion of World Philosophy Day organized by Department of Philosophy, NEHU, Shillong, Meghalaya, on 22.11.21.
- Lenka, L., Delivered a lecture on ”Graham Priest’s critique of Wittgen- stein and Derrida” at a Webinar as Guest of Honour at Saturday Sem- inar of Philosophy at BHU on 20.11.2021.
- Lenka, L., Delivered a lecture on Foucault’s Power/Knowledge (online) organized by department of Philosophy, Utkal Univ., Bhubaneswar on 10.07.2021
- Lenka, L., Delivered one Lecture on ”Searle’s Theory of Speech Acts at the Department of Philosophy”, University of North Bengal, Siliguri, West Bengal, on 17.01.2017
- Lenka, L., Delivered two lectures on ”Peace and Practical Vedanta” at an interdisciplinary Refresher Course on Studies in Peace & Conflict, UGC HRD Centre, University of North Bengal, Siliguri on 17. 01.2017.