Amita Chatterjee

Amita Chatterjee at her house. Picture by Pradip Sanyal. Source: The Telegraph, Calcutta, Wednesday, October 6, 2010, frontpage.

Amita Chatterjee, who retired recently as a professor of philosophy from Jadavpur University (where she taught for one and thirty years), was appointed in October 2010 as the first Vice-Chancellor of Presidency University [formerly Presidency College] in Kolkata.

Amita Chatterjee (b. 1950) was the founder-director of Jadavpur University’s Centre for Cognitive Science, which conducts advanced inter-disciplinary research in social science, science and engineering.

Her areas of specialisation are Logic — Indian and Western, Analytical Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science.

From our point of view, one of her most significant papers is:

chatterjee_naturalist_twist.pdf — Amita Chatterjee, A Naturalist Twist to Nyâya Pramânavâda: Quining ‘Justification’?, in Nirmalya Narayan Chakraborty and Madhucchanda Sen, Eds., Empiricism and the Two Dogmas, Kolkata, Rabindra Bharati University, 2006, pp. 135–148 (Ganapati Library, s.v. Hindu naturalism).

Some of her most recent publications have been co-authored with Smita Sirker (Jadavpur University):

Smita Sirker and Amita Chatterjee, Mental Reasoning. Experiments and Theories, Kolkata, Jadavpur University, 2009.

Amita Chatterjee and Smita Sirker (2010). Diṅnāga and Mental Models: A Reconstruction. Philosophy East and West 60 (3):315-340.