Professor Gupta obtained the degree of Ph.D. from the University
of Calcutta in 1972 and joined the Department of Philosophy,
Jadavpur University as Lecturer in 1977.
She has had a long and successful teaching and research
career, which includes a UGC Research Associateship at the
Department of Philosophy, Jadavpur University from 1975 to
1977, an ICPR General Fellowship during 1985-86 and most
significantly, a Fulbright Fellowship at Harvard University
in 1985 and once again in1995. She has been Member of the
Indian Council of Philosophical Research (ICPR) since 2002
(2002-2005).
Professor Gupta’s research interests lie in areas
as wide as Metaphysics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Science
and Social Philosophy.
She has presented research papers in innumerable seminars,
conferences and workshops and lectured in various Refresher
Courses in Universities in Calcutta and outside. She has
also organized a number of important seminars, Refresher
Courses and talks by eminent philosophers from all over the
world.
Here is a list of her significant articles in the last few
years:
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'Self, subjectivity and social sciences’,
Self, Society and Science: Theoretical and Historical
Perspectives, Vol. XI, Part 2, PHISPC, ed. D. P.
Chattopadhyay, 2005.
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'In search of just families’,
Theory and Practice, ed. by K. Roy and K. Sengupta.
Jadavpur Studies in Philosophy, JU and Allied
Publishers, Kolkata, 2003.
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3.
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'Constructive realism and the question
of imputation’, Is There a Single Right Interpretation,
ed., Michael Krausz, University Park, Pennsilvania State
University Press, 2002.
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'Has Putnam turned renegade?’,
Realism: Responses and Reactions ed., D. P.
Chattopadhyay et al., ICPR, 2000.
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5.
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'Understanding human action: Women’s
free acts as a case study’, Cultural Otherness
and Beyond, jointly edited with D. P. Chattopadhyay,
E. J. Brill, Leiden, Boston, Koln, 1998.
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6.
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'Putnam’s resolution of the
Popper-Kuhn controversy’, in The Philosophical
Quarterly, Vol. 43, No. 172., Blackwell Publishers,
Oxford, 1993.
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'Rationality and culture: Behaviour
within family as a case study’, Philosophy
East and West, University of Hawaii Press, Vol.
42, No. 3, 1992.
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Professor Gupta has also published several books, which are
listed below:
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Realism Versus Realism (Second
Enlarged Edition), Rowman and Littlefield, 2002.
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2.
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Cultural Otherness and Beyond,
jointly edited with D. P. Chattopadhyay, E. J. Brill,
Leiden, Boston, Koln, 1998.
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3.
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Philosophy of Science, coedited,
Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Simla, Munshiram
Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd., N. Delhi, 1992.
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4.
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Essays in Social and Political
Philosophy, coedited, Indian Council of Philosophical
Research and Allied Publishers, 1989.
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