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| Please join us to celebrate the extraordinary career of Professor Jitendra Mohanty. Professor Mohanty has spent over 20 years at Temple University during a career that spans over half a century. He is known internationally for his work in 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. His most recent publication was a major work on Husserl published by Yale University Press. See below for symposium participants. Click Here to jump to a list of Professor Mohanty's numerous publications. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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David Carr Emory University |
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David Carr received his B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees at Yale University, completing his doctorate there in 1966. After completing his degree he taught at Yale, the University of Oklahoma and the University of Ottawa, Canada, before moving in 1991 to his current position at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. He was chair of the Department of Philosophy at Emory for six years, and was named Charles Howard Candler Professor of Philosophy in 2000. He has held visiting positions, once at Washington University, St. Louis, and twice at the New School for Social Research, New York City, where he was Werner Marx Visiting Professor in 1990. In 1994-95 he participated in a research project in theory of history at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research, University of Bielefeld, Germany. |
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His research, publication and teaching have been devoted to various aspects of Husserl’s philosophy and to phenomenology generally, especially in relation to the philosophy of history. The latter inquiry has led him to explore the nature of narrative, and has thus intersected with literary theory, with Hegel’s phenomenology, and with analytic theories of history. Another of his concerns has been the nature of transcendental philosophy, especially in Husserl and in Kant. He is the author of Phenomenology and the Problem of History (1974); Time, Narrative and History (1986); Interpreting Husserl (1987); and The Paradox of Subjectivity (1999). Also among his publications are a number of co-edited collections, the English translation of a major work by Husserl, and numerous articles in English, German and French. A collection of his essays has been translated into Japanese. |
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Bina Gupta University of Missouri |
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Bina Gupta is a Curators’ Professor, Professor of Philosophy and Director of the South Asia Language and Area program at University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, in the United States. She is the author or editor of ten books, over eighty articles, and numerous book reviews on subjects including Indian philosophy, Buddhism, feminism, and comparative philosophy. Some of her important works are: Perceiving in Advaita Vedanta (published by Bucknell University Press in 1991), The Disinterested Witness: A Fragment of Advaita Vedanta Phenomenology (published by Northwestern University Press in June 1998), and Cit (Consciousness) (published by Oxford University Press). |
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| Her most recent book Reason and Experience in Indian Philosophy is published by the Indian Council of Philosophical Research in 2009. Her book Consciousness, Knowledge and Ignorance is scheduled to be published this year in "Treasury of the Indic Sciences," a series of the American Institute of Buddhist Studies, Columbia University, New York. Additionally, she has given over 100 presentations at national and international conferences in India, Germany, Denmark, England, Finland, and Korea. From 1998 to 2001, Professor Gupta served as the President of the Society for Asian and Comparative philosophy, an international alliance of researchers and scholars working in the area of Asian and comparative philosophy. In last three decades at MU, she made serious efforts to bring to the forefront the critical issues related to the equal treatment of women and minorities, and her efforts have been variously recognized. As early as 1991, she received an Alumnae Anniversary Award for her “teaching excellence and outstanding contribution to the education of women at Mizzou.” As late as April 2003, she was honored at the first annual “Tribute to MU Women” “to help create an environment of equity, fairness and justice.” | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Frank Kirkland Hunter College (CUNY) |
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| Frank M. Kirkland was a student of Prof. Mohanty at the New School for Social Research and, briefly, a colleague of his at the University of Oklahoma. He joined the philosophy department at Hunter College in 1985 and the PhD Program in Philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center in 1989. He has been chair of Hunter's philosophy department since 1998. Kirkland works on Kant, 19th and 20th century European philosophy, and Africana philosophy, focusing on Hegelian and Husserlian idealisms as well as on the modernisms of African-diasporic intellectual traditions. He has also done two yearlong stretches of study at the University of Munich and the University of Tubingen. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Besides serving as co-editor of Phenomenology -- East & West: Essays in Honor of J.N. Mohanty and Frederick Douglass: A Critical Reader, Kirkland has also published among other things: (a) "Apperception and Combination: Some Kantian Problems;" (b) "Hegel's Critique of Psychologism;" (c) "How Would Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit Be Relevant Today?;" (d) "The Problem of the Color Line: Normative or Empirical; Evolving or Non-Evolving;" (e) "Modernisms in Black;" and (f) "Enslavement, Moral Suasion, and Struggles for Recognition: Frederick Douglass' Answer to the Question -- 'What is Enlightenment?'" |
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