Professor of Philosophy
Emeritus Faculty
Ph.D., University of Gottingen, 1954.
M.A., Calcutta University, 1949.
B.A. (Honors), Presidency College, Calcutta, 1947
Professor Mohanty works in the areas of phenomenology (especially Husserl), Kant, Indian philosophy, logic, and epistemology. He is Past-President of the Society for Asian and Comparative philosophy, Past-President of the Indian Philosophical Congress, and a Gold Medalist of the Asiatic Society. He is a Life Member of the Indian Academy of Philosophy. He also received the Humboldt Prize from the German government in honor of his scholarly work. Professor Mohanty was the founding editor of Husserl Studies. He is completing a major work on Husserl’s thought.
Selected Bibliography
• Between Two Worlds: East and West, an Autobiography (Oxford University Press, 2002)
• Classical Indian Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 2002)
• The Self and its Other (Oxford University Press, 2000).
• Logic, Truth, and the Modalities (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999).
Recent Courses
• Kant
• Hegel
• Seminar in 19th-Century Philosophy
• Philosophy East and West
• Indian Philosophy
• Metaphysics
Contact Information
Office: 739 Anderson Hall
Mailing Address:
Department of Philosophy
Anderson Hall
Temple University
Philadelphia, PA 19122
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