The Call for Recognition

This book builds a case for how social norms are neither mere conventions nor are they merely anthropological phenomena, which are relativistic. In other words, it talks about how socio-political norms are built out of our natural social behaviour but at the same time also have objective normative validity.

R. Krishnaswamy is Associate Professor and Co-Director for the Centre for Social and Political Research, O.P. Jindal Global University, India. He has a Ph.D. from the University of Delhi in Philosophy. He has held a research fellowship at the University of Carleton, Ottawa, Canada. He has recently been a HESP/CEU post-doctoral fellow in the Philosophy Department at Central European University, Budapest, Hungary (now in Vienna). His research interests criss-cross across various disciplines. He works on issues related to the philosophy of mind and language.