SRILEKHA DATTA, M.A.


 

Professor Datta completed her M.A. in Philosophy from Jadavpur University and joined the Department as Lecturer in 1971.

Her research interests lie in the areas of Indian Philosophy , particularly in Nyaya-Vaisesika and Vedanta Philosophy, in Indian Philosophy of Language and Philosophical Logic. Outside Philosophy, she is involved in the study of Literature, specially, Sanskrit, Bengali and English Literature. She is also a keen musician and takes deep interest in the beautiful and the sacred.

Here is a list of Professor Datta's important publications in the last few years :

1.
'Types of inference in Indian Logic', Foundations of Logic and Language, ed. by S. Datta and A. Chatterjee, 2003.
2.
'The Nyaya view of sentence - meaning reconsidered', in Realism : Responses and Reactions, ed. by D. P. Chattopadhyaya, Sandhya Basu, Madhabendra Nath Mitra, Ranjan Mukhopadhyay, Indian Council of Philosophical Research, New Delhi, 2000.
3.
'An analysis of the concept of Prama and Pramana in Nyaya', Essays in Indian Philosophy, ed. S.R. Saha, 1997.
4.
''Validity is not enough', Logic, Identity and Consistency, ed. Pranab Kumar Sen, 1997.
5.
'Udayana's doctrine of jatibadhaka: A Defence', Jadavpur Journal of Philosophy, 1989.

She is the author of a monograph (1991) and has co-edited a volume (2003).

1.
 The Ontology of Negation, 1991.
2.
 Foundations of Logic and Language, 2003.

Professor Datta has lectured in innumerable Refresher Courses and made significant presentations at various seminars, conferences and workshops apart from her involvement in undergraduate and post graduate teaching and research.