FACULTY, PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT, WEST BENGAL STATE UNIVERSITY.
Dr Atreyee Mukherjee
Assistant Professor in Philosophy
West Bengal State University
[email protected]
Academic Qualifications
Grauated in philosophy from Jadavpur University in the year 1998.
Postgraduated in philosophy from Jadavpur University in the year 2000.
Received M.Phil Degree in philosophy from Jadavpur University in the year 2003.
Received Doctoral Research in Philosophy from Jadavpur University in 2008.
Work Experience
Worked in FIP against substantive post in Jogomaya Devi Girls’ College from November 2008
till March 2009.
Presently working in substantive post in West Bengal State University.
Fellowships/Achievements
Have been awarded the Junior Research Fellowship by the Indian Council of Philosophical Research,
New Delhi in September 2004.
Have been selected as Research Fellow at the Centre for Cognitive Science, Jadavpur University under
the scheme of Potential for Excellence in September 2006.
Research Experience
Worked as a Project Fellow in the project titled “The Holistic Approach to Belief Revision” at the Centre
for Cognitive Science under the scheme of Potential for Excellence. Project Coordinators: Dr Soumitra
Basu and Dr Sadhan Chakroborty.
Worked as Research Fellow at the Centre for Cognitive Science, Jadavpur University under the scheme of
Potential for Excellence in September 2006.Coordinator: Professor Amita Chatterjee.
Doing post-doctoral research in a project titled Empathy: Different Perspectives, funded by Indian
Council of Philosophical Research, Ministry of Human Resource and Development, New Delhi.
Research Guidance
Rajib Ghosh on Personal Identity
Sanchita Sarkar on Environmental philosophy
Areas of Teaching Interest
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Philosophy of mind, Epistemology and Ethics
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Feminist Schools of Thought
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Social Philosophy
Areas of Research Interest
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Traditional epistemology and alternative epistemologies
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Ethics and Applied Ethics
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Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science
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Philosophy of Science and Neuro-philosophy
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Feminist Reading of Cognitive Science
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Feminist Philosophy: Different Perspectives
Publications
Paper titled Exploring Heterophenomenology published in the Proceedings of the 79th Session
of the Indian Philosophical Congress in the book The Spirit of Indian and Western PhilosophyScience, Society and Religion. Edited by R.Murali, Sundeep Prakashan, Delhi, 2006.
Paper titled Breaking the Binaries published in the Rabindra Bharati Journal of Philosophy
Volume XII in 2007.
Published a paper ‘Swami Vivekananda: Through a Feminist Lens’ in a book entitled In Search
of Light, Diya Publications in 2013.
Chapter titled Truth and Self: A Case Study in a book Dimensions of Truth, Readers Service in
2014.
Contributed a chapter on Self, No-Self in the Philosophy of Mind Module under the UGC
scheme of E-pathshala project in 2015.
Paper titled ‘Dalit Women: The Perpetual Other’, Sage Publications (forthcoming).
Chapter titled ‘Kanya Bhruna Hatya’ of a text book in Bengali on Practical Ethics, Setu
Publications (forthcoming).