What’s in a Name? A Grammar of Pluralism and Foundations of the Vernacular

This book focusses on the theory of names to interrogate the foundations of philosophy of language, contrasting the presuppositions of a grammar of pluralism in vernacular traditions with those of the dominant regime of universal grammar, both of modernity and religious orthodoxies.

Anuradha Veeravalli taught at the Department of Philosophy, University of Delhi. Her research focuses on issues regarding science, religion and politics through a consideration of their epistemological presuppositions in a comparative perspective. She is the author of Gandhi in Political Theory: Truth, Law and Experiment (2014).