LEARNING ENVIRONMENT, ADMINISTRATIVE LEADERSHIP, AND PEDAGOGICAL SELF-EFFICACY: A MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS OF TEACHER MORALE AND PROFESSIONAL PERSISTENCE

Abstract

Throughout his life, Kalidas Bhattacharyya (KB) has written extensively on both Indian and Western philosophy. In some of his writings, such as ThePresuppositions of Science and Philosophy and Other Essaysand a couple of chapters in Logic, Language and Philosophy, KBhas defended traditional metaphysics, by offering both positive arguments as well as critiquing some objections raised against it. In this article, we critically discuss his attempt to defend traditional metaphysics by analyzing the presuppositions of science and metaphysics. In his ThePresuppositions of Science and Philosophy and Other Essays, he not only enumerates and classifies presuppositions, he also uses them to clarify the relation between science, metaphysics and epistemology. Despite its significance, KB’s work remains largely unknown to contemporary philosophers, perhaps due to his highly technical and rigorous writing style. This article is an attempt to introduce and discuss his defense of traditional metaphysics so that it can be taken up for further research.