INDRANI SANYAL, Ph.D.
 

Professor Sanyal received the degree of Ph.D. from Jadavpur University and joined the Department of Philosophy at Jadavpur University as member of faculty.

Professor Sanyal’s research interests are varied. She is interested in Ethics, particularly in Indian Ethics and its application. She is also interested in the Philosophy of Logic and Language, in Indian and Western Metaphysics and in the Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo. Along with her colleagues, Professor Sanyal has helped in the setting up of a Sri Aurobindo Studies Centre at the Department of Philosophy, Jadavpur University under the UGC Scheme on Epoch-Making Social Thinkers.

Professor Sanyal has been working on a group project on ‘Sruti as the Foundation of Indian Social and Moral Tradition’. This project is an attempt to understand the true spirit of the Hindu moral tradition and its notion of values in reference to practical life and environment. Professor Sanyal is also working on a group project called ‘Value and Applied Philosophy’ on the nature of moral value in the context of moral dilemma. She is also involved in a project called ‘Belief and Life: From the Perspective of Indian Ethics’.

Under the Indo-French Programme of Co-operation in Social Sciences, 2005 jointly sponsored by the Indian Council of Philosophical Research, New Delhi and Maison des Sciences de L' Homme, Paris visited Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, International Institute for Educational Programme, Unesco, Paris, Centre for Indian and South Asian Studies, MSH, Paris and others.

Here is a list of Professor Sanyal’s important publications in the last few years:

1.
"Youktik Parivyapti" (Logical Space) in Wittgenstein : Jagat, Bhasa O Cintan, Edited by T.K. Sarkar, I. Sanyal and S. Maitra, Allied Publishers and Jadavpur University, 1998, Kolkata.
2.
Sen on reference and quantification and their implication in a modal context’, in Realism: Responses and Reactions, D. P. Chattopadhyay ed., Indian Council for Philosophical Research, N. Delhi, 2000.
3.
The just war or Dharmayuddha’, in Ethics: An Anthology, Madhumita Chattopadhyay ed., Jadavpur University and Allied Publishers, Kolkata, 2002.
4.
The nature of human motivation’, in On Mind and Consciousness: Various Approaches, Chhanda Chakraborty ed., Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Simla and IIT Kharagpur, 2003.
5.
The interface between theory and practice: From the perspective of Virtue Ethics’, in A Collection of Essays on Applied Ethics, Aparajita Mukhopadhyay and Manideepa Chakraborty ed., Sri Chaitanya College Publication, Habra, 2004.
6.
'What It Is That We Are Ignorant Of' in Essays in Indian Philosophy, Jadavpur Studies in Philosophy, edited by Sukharanjan Saha, Allied Publishers Limited in collaboration with Department of Philosophy, Jadavpur University, 1997.

Professor Sanyal has written a book called On Essentialist Claims published by Allied Publishers in collaboration with Jadavpur University in 2002 as part of the series called Jadavpur Studies in Philosophy. Professor Sanyal has also co-edited a book in Bengali bearing the title, Wittgenstein : Jagat, Bhasha O Chintan, published by Allied Publishers in collaboration with Jadavpur University in 1998.

Professor Sanyal has lectured in several Refresher Courses and made presentations at several seminars, conferences and workshops. She has also supervised several candidates for the M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees.