AMITA CHATTERJEE, Ph.D.
 

Professor Chatterjee obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Calcutta and joined the Department of Philosophy at Jadavpur University as member of faculty in 1979.

Professor Chatterjee’s academic interests are varied and her research areas include Logic, Nyaya, Analytical Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science and she is particularly involved in the rereading of philosophical classics. Professor Chatterjee is also involved in the development of web-based teaching materials and in gender studies. She is one of the oldest members of the well-known Calcutta Logic Circle. She is the Coordinator of the Centre for Cognitive Science, Department of Philosophy, Jadavpur University and is one of those who ushered in the era of cognitive studies in West Bengal. She is member of several learned bodies and has been member of some of the highest administrative bodies in Jadavpur University. Professor Chatterjee has recently been Visiting Fellow at the Department of Philosophy, Central University of Hyderabad. She was visiting Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, from January to June 2004. Back in 1996, she was Charles Wallace Fellow at the Department of Philosophy, University of Liverpool, UK. She also visited MSH, CREA, University of Paris viii and Paris xiii in connection with the inter-disciplinary research project of Concept Representation in Cognitive Science under the Indo-French Cultural Exchange Programme of the Govt. of India through the UGC in 1998.

Apart from her involvement in several personal, group and departmental research activities, Professor Chatterjee has supervised the research projects of many scholars. She has organized several national as well as International Seminars, Conferences and Workshops on a variety of themes and made presentations at several more. She has also been a resource person at many Refresher Courses and Orientation Programmes organized by Jadavpur University as well as other Universities in and out of Kolkata.

Here is a list of Professor Chatterjee’s significant articles:

1.
'Power and Sakti – A comparative study’, Journal of Indian Philosophy, Volume 15, 1987.
2.
'On representation of indeterminate identity via vague concepts’, jointly with M. K. Chakraborty, Journal of Applied Non-Classical Logics, Toulouse, France, Volume 4, No. 2, 1996.
3.
'Natural laws, accidental generalizations and vyapti’, Epistemology, Meaning and Metaphysics after Matilal, Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, Vol. 3, No. 2, IIAS, Simla, 1996.
4.
'Truth in Indian Philosophy’, A Companion to World Philosophies, ed. By Deutsche and Bontekoe, Blackwell, Oxford, 1997.
5.
'Identity statements’, Foundations of Logic and Language, Vol. 2, ed. P. K. Sen, Allied Publishers Ltd., N. Delhi, 1997.
6.
'Universals and concepts reviewed’, Realism: Responses and Reactions, Essays in Honour of Pranab Kumar Sen, ed. D. P. Chattopadhyay et al, Indian Council of Philosophical Research, N. Delhi, 2000.
7.
 'Let thousand flowers bloom’, Post Modernism and Philosophy, ed. By D. Gupta and P. Sarkar, Calcutta University, 2003.
8.
 'Paravidya and Aparavidya – A reconstruction’, Philosophical Wisdom and Scientific Knowledge, ed., D. P. Chattopadhyay, Centre for Studies in Civilisations, N. Delhi, 2004.
9.
 'Buddhist Logic’, History of World Logics, ed., J. Hintikka, Oxford, forthcoming.
10.
 'Morality in Cyberspace’, jointly with M. Guha, Human Rights: Conceptual Analysis and Application in the Indian Context, Applied Ethics Institute of India, forthcoming.

Professor Chatterjee has also published a number of significant books, which are enlisted below:

1.
Understanding Vagueness, Pragati Publications, New Delhi, 1994.
2.
Bharatiya Dharmaniti (ed.), Allied Publishers Ltd., N. Delhi, 1998.
3.
Perspectives on Consciousness (ed.), Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd., N. Delhi, 2003.
4.
Physicalism and its Alternatives (in Bengali), jointly edited, Allied Publishers Ltd., N. Delhi, 2003.

5.

 Foundations of Logic and Language, ed. by S. Datta and A. Chatterjee, 2003

6.

 Currently editing (jointly) two volumes on Philosophical Concepts Relevant to Sciences in Indian Traditions, PHISPC, Centre for Studies in Civilisations, N. Delhi.