TacitKnowledge

This blog is entitled 'TacitKnowledge', recalling the work of the great scientist and philosopher Michael Polanyi. It is planned as a platform for much that we perceive but don't always share, fearing that our views are too vague to be of value. Here I will take you to a tour of books and articles written by me, over the years and on various topics. One major area covered will be theoretical physics, while broader domains will also be explored -- touching upon philosophy, psychology, and the contemporary social-political scenario too. In most of these I will be clearly writing without regard to my competence and qualification because that is what this site is meant to be -- a platform for our tacitly held views.  You will find my CV here  if you feel like getting to know more about my background.    

  Is West Bengal turning into a rogue state? A commentary on the Sandeshkhali incident on 5 January, 2024. Click to read

This book is a revised and enlarged version of an earlier essay ‘Understanding Creativity: Affect Decision and Inference’, self-published by me in December, 2021, and available at PhilArchive  . How the human mind engages in a creative act, involving a restructuring of the conceptual space. As the conceptual space is taken to a tipping point, a cascading process starts, analogous to an avalanche in a slowly growing sand-pile.  Click here to read the book

Here is the detailed table of contents of my e-book 'Equilibrium and Non-equilibrium Statistical Mechanics: Principles and Concepts' (Avijit Lahiri). The book is self-published at Google Books (preview here ). Click to see list of chapters and detailed TOC

We briefly review (in Bengali) certain aspects noted in the recent political history of West Bengal. And fantasise if a certain possibility, latent in this history, will be realised. Read the article.

  সত্যের ধারণাটি মোটেই সরল বা সহজ নয়। সত্য কি শুধুই বিষয়-নির্ভর? আমরা কি সত্য আবিষ্কার করি, না কি তা অংশত নির্মাণও করি? আমাদের অধিবিদ্যার (metaphysics) সঙ্গে সত্যের সম্পর্ক। সত্যের ধারণা প্রসঙ্গে কান্টীয় অধিবিদ্যার স্বভাববাদী ভাষ্য কী বলে?  click here to read