FEATURED AUTHOR

Sanjit Chakraborty

Assistant Professor
VIT University/Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata

Dr Sanjit Chakraborty is an Indian Philosopher working on the diversified areas of Philosophy of Mind and Language, Philosophy of Science, and AI vs Ethics. Chakraborty’s books include Human Minds and Cultures (Springer 2024), Engaging Putnam (De Gruyter, 2022), Living without God: A Multicultural Spectrum of Atheism (Springer, 2022), The Labyrinth of Mind and World: Beyond Internalism-Externalism (Routledge, 2020), & Understanding Meaning and World: A Relook on Semantic Externalism (CSP, 2016).

Subjects: Philosophy

Biography

Dr. Sanjit Chakraborty is an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Vellore Institute of Technology -AP University. Before that, he was a teaching faculty member at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, the Indian Institute of Management Indore, and the Central University of Hyderabad. His philosophical venture was nourished under the guidance of Professor Hilary Putnam (Emeritus Professor, Harvard University) from 2008 to 2016. His work spans the topics of Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Science, Applied Ethics and AI and Morality.

Chakraborty’s books include Human Minds and Cultures (Springer 2024), Engaging Putnam (De Gruyter, 2022), Living without God: A Multicultural Spectrum of Atheism (Springer, 2022), The Labyrinth of Mind and World: Beyond Internalism-Externalism (Routledge, 2020), Understanding Meaning and World: A Relook on Semantic Externalism (CSP, 2016), and Pursuits of Language (forthcoming 2024).

Chakraborty has extensively published around fifty papers in much-respected peer-reviewed international and national journals like Philosophia (Springer), Sophia (Springer), Encyclopedia on Business and Professional Ethics (Springer), Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research (Springer), Argumenta, American Philosophical Association Newsletters, International Journal of Applied Ethics, and so on. His works have been reviewed and cited in reputed international journals by noted scholars.

Chakraborty has been invited for talks at different renowned institutions and universities overseas like Harvard University, Oxford University, Richard Rorty Society, Humboldt University, University of London, University of Dublin, Imperial College London, and several Universities, IITs, and IIMs in India. Chakraborty holds the editor and referee positions in the journals of Human Affairs (De Gruyter), Journal of Scholarly Publishing (University of Toronto Press), Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence (Taylor and Francis), Culture and Dialogue (Brill), Research Ethics (Sage), Sophia (Springer) and book reviewer of Springer, Routledge, World Scientific Publishing and Palgrave Macmillan.

Find me on:

http://www.routledge.com/authors/i19367-sanjit-chakraborty
https://vit-in.academia.edu/DrSanjitChakraborty

Mobile: +91 8918331243

Education

Areas of Research / Professional Expertise

Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Science, AI and Morality, Applied Ethics, Indian Philosophy, and Phenomenology.

Personal Interests

Music, Literature, Outdoor games, Rural Development, Cooking, Gardening, and Nature Watching.

Books

Featured Title

News

Engaging Putnam, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter

By: Sanjit Chakraborty
Subjects: Philosophy

About this book

Hilary Whitehall Putnam was one of the leading philosophers of the second half of the 20^th century. As student of Rudolph Carnap's and Hans Reichenbach's, he went on to become not only a major figure in North American analytic philosophy, who made significant contributions to the philosophy of mind, language, mathematics, and physics but also to the disciplines of logic, number theory, and computer science. He passed away on March 13, 2016. The present volume is a memorial to his extraordinary intellectual contributions, honoring his contributions as a philosopher, a thinker, and a public intellectual. It features essays by an international team of leading philosophers, covering all aspects of Hilary Putnam's philosophy from his work in ethics and the history of philosophy to his contributions to the philosophy of science, logic, and mathematics. Each essay is an original contribution.

“Hilary Putnam is one of the most distinguished philosophers of the modern era, and just speaking personally, one of the smartest and most impressive thinkers I have ever been privileged to know—as a good friend for 70 years. The fine essays collected here are a fitting tribute to a most remarkable figure.”

Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

“In Engaging Putnam excellent philosophers engage the writings and ideas of Hilary Putnam, one of the most productive and influential philosophers of the last century. Putnam stands out because of the combination of brilliance and a firm grasp of reality he brought to a very broad range of issues: the logic and the philosophy of mathematics, free-will, skepticism, realism, internalism and externalism and a lot more. Along with this he offered penetrating insights about other great philosophers, from Aristotle to Wittgenstein. All great philosophers make us think. With many, we try to figure out the strange things they say. With Putnam, we are made to think about clearly explained examples and arguments that get to the heart of the issues he confronts. This book is a wonderful contribution to the continuation of Putnam-inspired thinking.”

John Perry, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Stanford University

Author information

James Conant, Univ. of Chicago/Univ. of Leipzig, USA/Germany; Sanjit Chakraborty, IISER Kolkata/VIT-AP University, India.

Living without God: A Multicultural Spectrum of Atheism, Singapore: Springer Nature

By: Sanjit Chakraborty
Subjects: Philosophy

This book deals with the intricate issue of approaching atheism--methodologically as well as conceptually--from the perspective of cultural pluralism. What does 'atheism' mean in different cultural contexts? Can this term be applied appropriately to different religious discourses which conceptualize God/gods/Goddess/goddesses (and also godlessness) in hugely divergent ways? Is my 'God' the same as yours? If not, then how can your atheism be the same as mine? In other words, this volume raises the question: Is it not high time that we proposed a comparative study of atheism(s) alongside that of religions, rather than believing that atheism is centered in the 'Western' experience? Apart from answering these questions, the book highlights the much-needed focus on the philosophical negotiations between atheism, theism and agnosticism. The fine chapters collected here present pluralist negotiations with the notion of atheism and its ethical, theological, literary and scientific corollaries.