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Prabal Kumar Sen (b. 1946) is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Calcutta. His main area of interest is Nyaya, Vaisesika, Purva Mimamsa, Buddhism and Vedanta. He has previously edited a number of hitherto unpublished texts of Nyaya Philosophy like Akhyatavadavyakhya and Moksavada of Ramabhadra Sarvabhauma, and he also has to his credit several research articles published in different journals, festschrifts and commemorative volumes.

Uma Chattopadhyay is currently Reader in Philosophy, University of Calcutta. Educated at Jadavpur University, Dr. Chattopadhyay has a long teaching career in Calcutta University-affiliated undergraduate colleges, including Bethune College and Lady Brabourne College, Kolkata. She also taught at the post-graduate classes of philosophy in Rabindra Bharati University and Jadavpur University. She has contributed papers in seminars organized by many centres of higher learning including the one at the Department of Theology, Philosophy of Religion at the Uppsala University, Sweden. For a short period, she was a Fellow at Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris in 2005. Her current research interests include Indian Epistemology, Metaphysics, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Religion, Ethics (particularly Applied Ethics). The author specially enjoys studying philosophy, both Indian and Western, from local and global perspectives. She has published papers in many academic journals and anthologies.