Prof. Nirmalya Narayan Chakraborty

Vice Chancellor

Topic/Research Project

Navya-Nyaya philosophy of 16^th-19 ^th century Bengal.

• Currently working on Bhartrhari’s Philosophy of Language and the Analytic Tradition.

• An Examination of Frege’s Context Principle(Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellowship)

• Intrinsic Value of Nature: An Examination of Some Indian and Western Philosophical Theories. (Minor Research Project)

• The Philosophy of Sentence and its Meaning(Post Doctoral)

• And Inquiry Into Meaning: In the Light of W.V.Quine and D. Davidson . (Ph.D.)

• The Problem of Knowledge and Language: With Reference To Classical Indian Thought. (M.A..)

• Professor in Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata 700 050, 2010 onward

• Associate Professor in Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata 700 050, 2007- 2010

• Reader in Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy, Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata 700 050, 2004 – 2007

• National Scholarship, Jadavpur University, 1983-85.

• Brock University Fellowship, 1988-89.

• University of Waterloo Arts Scholarship, 1989-93.

• Visiting Fellow, Department of Philosophy, North Bengal University, 2003.

• Commonwealth Fellow, Department of Philosophy, University of Glasgow, Scotland, U.K. 2004-05

• Visiting Fellow, Department of Philosophy, University of Pune, 2007.

• Visiting Fellow, Department of Philosophy, University of Hyderabad, 2007.

• Visiting Fellow, Department of Philosophy, Assam University, Silchar, 2008

• Visiting Professor, University of Naples “L’Orientale”, Italy, 2009.

• Visiting Professor, University of Naples “L’Orientale”, Italy, 2010.

In English: Books

• A History of Navya-Nyaya Scholarship in Bengal(translation) , Motilal Banarasidas, New Delhi, Forthcoming

• Edited Language, Thought and Reality, Rabindra Bharati University, Calcutta, 2010

• Edited Perspectives on Radhakrishnan, Rabindra Bharati University, Calcutta, 2007

• Co-edited Knowledge Truth and Realism --- Essays in Philosophical Analysis by Pranab Kumar Sen , Indian Council of Philosophical Research, New Delhi, 2007.

•Co-edited Empiricism and The Two Dogmas, Rabindra Bharati University, Calcutta, 2006.

• Pursuit of Meaning, New Age, Calcutta, 2004.

• In Defense of Intrinsic Value of Nature, New Age, Calcutta, 2004.

• Edited Different Aspects of Environmental Concern, Rabindra Bharati University, Calcutta, 2001. (Also contributed essay on ‘On the Very Idea of Intrinsic Value of Nature’.)

Articles

•’On the very Idea of the Authority of the Vedas’, Reason, Revelation and Peace (ed.) Ashok Vohra, ICPR and Motilal Banarasidass Publishers, New Delhi, 2020

• ‘The Ethics of Deceit in Mahabharata: Rationality and Virtue’, Studies in Humanities and Social Science(Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla), XXVI, No.1 2019

• ‘Religion and Religions: Unity, Universality and Pluralism in the thoughts of Swami Vivekananda’, The Nature of Reality: Philosophical Discourses on Language, Religion and Culture , (ed.) Jyotsna Saha et al, Levant Books, Kolkata, 2020

• ‘Scepticism, Rule-following and Knowledge of Language’, Studies in Epistemology: Knowledge, Its Anti-Thesis, Their Dialectic , (eds.) A.V.Singh and A. Varshney, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, 2020

• ‘Tagore and the idea of Emancipation’, in The Cambridge Companion to Rabindranath Tagore , (ed.) Sukanta Chaudhuri, Cambridge University Press, 2020

• ‘Word, Sentence and Meaning’, Indian and Western Philosophy of Language , (eds.) P.K.Mukhopadhyay and K.D.Tripathi, Indira Gandhi National Centre for Arts, New Delhi, 2019

‘A brief Conceptual Historical Survey of Classical Indian Philosophy’, Ravenshaw Journal of Philosophy, V, 2019

• ‘Ethics of Globalization’, in Essays in Philosophy(ed.) Bijoy H. Boruah, Dibrugarh University, 2018

• ‘Language, Communication and the Logic of Recognition’, in Language and Communication , (ed.) Kanti Lal Das, Levant Publishers (NBU Studies in Philosophy), Kolkata, 2018

• ‘Methodology in Indian Philosophy’, Routledge History of Indian Philosophy , (ed.) Purushottam Bilimoria et al, 2018

• ‘ Rationality, Morality and Objectivity’, Morality, Objectivity and Defeasibility (eds.) R.C.Majhi et al, Concept, New Delhi, 2017

• ‘A Cautionary Note on Matilal’s way of doing Indian Philosophy’, American Philosophical Association Newsletter, September, 2017

• ‘Tagore and The Problem of Evil’, The Idea of Surplus, (ed.) Mrinal Miri, Routledge, New Delhi, 2016

• ‘The Ethics of Feeding the Hungry’, Refugees, Marriage, Asuras and Varied, (ed.) Indrani Sanyal and Ratna Dutta Sharma, Jadavpur University and Mahabodhi Book Agency, 2015

• ‘From Language to Metaphysics’, Alternative Standpoints, (ed.) Madhumita Chattopadhyay, Suryodaya Books, New Delhi, 2015

• ‘The Self and its Knowledge: The Legacy of Rasvihary Das’, Philosophy in Colonial India, (ed.) Sharad Deshpande, Springer in association with IIAS, Shimla, 2015

• ‘Psychologism, Necessity and Indian Logic’, Philosophical Papers (Journal of the Department of Philosophy, North Bengal University), Vol. X, 2014

• ‘History of Navya-Nyaya scholars in Navadvipa’, The Contribution of Traditional Pandits of Bengal, (ed.) Karunasindhu Das, Sanskrit Sahitya Parishat, Calcutta, 2012

• ‘On the Irreducibility of the Semantical’, Linguistic Representations: The Road Ahead, (ed.) R.C.Pradhan, Decent Books, New Delhi, 2012

• ‘The Logic of Vidhi Sentences’, Moral Language, (eds.) DebikaSaha&LaxmikantaPadhi, Northern Book Centre, Delhi, 2010

• ‘Rationality, Thought and Language’, Epistemology, Science and Cognition , (eds.) Prajit K. Basu and S. G. Kulkarni, Decent Book, New Delhi, 2010

• ‘From Naturalised Epistemology to Naturalised Semantics’, Indian Journal of Analytic Philosophy , Volume III, Number

2, 2010.

• ‘On the very idea of our Obligation to Future Generation’, in Applied Ethics and Human Rights: Conceptual Analysis and Contextual Applications , (ed.) Shashi Motilal, Anthem Press, New Delhi, 2010.

• ‘Ethics in Indian Attitude Towards Nature: Organic and Inorganic’, A Historical-Developmental Study of Classical Indian Philosophy of Morals (ed.) Rajendra Prasad, Concept, New Delhi, 2009

• ‘Interpreting Interpretation: Indian Philosophical Perspective’,

Time, Space and Text, (eds.) ChinmoyGuha and Tirtha Prasad Mukherjee, University of Calcutta, Calcutta, 2008

• ‘On the Nature of Word and our Knowledge of it’, Language and Mind , (ed.) K.S.Prasad, Decent Books, New Delhi, 2008

• ‘On What There Was’, Language and Ontology, (eds.) K.L.Das and Anirban Mukherjee, Northern Book Centre, New Delhi, 2008

• ‘Religion : an Important Nonsense’, Wittgenstein: Ethics and Religion , (ed.) K.C.Pandey, Rawat, New Delhi, 2008

• ‘Flight from Proposition’, Indian Journal of Analytic Philosophy , 1, 2007

• ‘The Continuity of Tradition: Emergence of Contemporary Approaches’, Suvidya, Vol. 1, 2007

•’Whereof one cannot speak’, Language and Reality,(eds.) K.L. Das & Jyotish Ch.Basak. Northern Book Centre, New Delhi, 2006

•‘What is There in a Name’?, Language and Communication: A Philosophical Study, (eds.) Sandhya Basu and Madhucchanda Sen, RabindraBharati University, Calcutta, 2006

• ’An Imaginary Dialogue of Bhartrhari and Quine’, JICPR, vol. XXII, 2005

• ‘Knowledge and Language in Classical Indian Philosophy’ in Raghunath Ghosh (ed.), Language and Meaning, Allied Publishers New Delhi, in collaboration with University of North Bengal, 2003.

• ‘Breaking the Boundaries: Davidson and Derrida on Language and Meaning’, in Dikshit Gupta and Priyambada Sarkar (eds.) Post Modernism and the Philosophical Tradition , Calcutta University Press, Calcutta 2003.

• ‘On the Very Posibility of Cognitive Science’, The Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. VII, 2002.

• ‘Towards a Phenomenological Origin of Logic’, Rabindra

Bharati Journal of Philosophy, Calcutta, 2001

• ‘Reference Withers Away’, Jadavpur Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 10, No.2, 1998.

• ‘Did Husserl misunderstand Brentano?’, Rabindra Bharati Journal of Philosophy ¸Vol.4 1998.

• ‘The Purpose of St. Anselm’s Ontological Argument’, The Journal of Indian Academy of Philosophy , Vol. XXXV, 1996.

•‘Some Aspects of Conscience’, Rabindra Bharati Patrika, 1996- 97.

• ‘Semantic Indeterminacy and Semantic Externalism’, Jadavpur Journal of Philosophy , Vol. 6, No. 1, 1994.

• ‘If There Be A God, From Whence Proceed so many Evils?’, Indian Philosophical Quarterly , Vol. XX, No.2, 1993.

• ‘Derrida’s Deconstruction of Husserl’s Theory of Meaning’, Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research , Vol. IX, 1992.

In Bengali:

Book

• Edited Bingsha Shatabdite Bharatiya Darshan Cinta, Paschim Banga Rajya Pustak Parsat, 2020

• Paribesh o Nitividya, Paschim Banga Rajya Pustak Parsat, 2018

• Edited Smarane Manane Brajendranath Seal, Alocana Cakra, Kolkata, 2016

• Darsaner pathe: Pube o Paschime, Gangchil, Kolkata, 2010

Articles

• ‘Sattar khoje Heidegger’, Ebong Mushaera, 81, 2020

• ‘Darshan o Prajuktividya’, Philosophy and Life-World, 21, 2019

• ‘Arthamulya ebong vacya: prasanga Frege’, Darsan-Biksha,Vol. 25, 2015-16

• ‘Bangalir Europe darshan: tin prajanmerbangalirkantchahcha’ , Bangalir Europe charcha, (ed.) ArindamChakrabarti, Anustup, Kolkata, 2016

• ‘Ja chilo kalpamaya: Wittgenstein prasange kichu prathamik katha’, Bakalam, 2016

• ‘Basanta Kumar Mallik: Jiban o Darshan’, Alocana cakra,2015

• ‘Bhalobasa kare koy’, Rabindra Bharati Patrika, 2014

• ‘Bhasa, bhavana, karma; Prasanga Arindam Chakrabarti’, Alocana cakra , 2012

• ‘AtikrantirDarshan: PrasangaKalidas Bhattacharya’, Alocana cakra, 2011

• ‘Bhasa theke bhalobasa’, Alocana chakra, January, 2010

• ‘Pascatya Darsan O Bharatio Darsan - ei bibhajon krtrm na prakrto?’ Rabindra Bharati Patrika, vol.X, 2007

• ‘Nirniyam Advaita-Vada’ (Anomalous Monism) in A. Chatterjee, M.N. Mitra and P. Sarakar (eds.), Manodarsan – Sarir- Vada O Tar Bikalpa , Ashima Prokashan and Jadavpur University, Calcutta 2003.

• ‘Muktir Sandhane Naiyayika”(Naiyayika in search of liberation),