Synopsis The volume contains revised and edited papers presented at the 77th Session of the Indian philosophical Congress held at Udaipur in 2002. Besides perennial philosophical problems, they discuss such vital contemporary issues as terrorism, violence, religious conversion, environmental ethics, peace, social justice, cultural integration, etc. The volume is divided into five sections. The first section contains six papers on logic and scientific method. The second section also contains six papers on history of philosophy. The third section, comprising nine papers, focuses on metaphysics and epistemology. The fourth section contains eight papers on various aspects of ethics and social philosophy including morality in ecology. The last section has twelve papers which discuss the nature of religious beliefs, women in religion and politics in India vipassana, terrorism, nationalism and internationalism.