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Prof. J. N. Mohanty  -- SACP Secretary-Treasurer
 

 
Dr. Jitendra N. Mohanty has held various teaching and administrative positions, including Professor of Philosophy at Burdwan University in India; Acharya B. N. Seal Professor of Mental and Moral Sciences at the University of Calcutta,  India; Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research; the George Lynn Cross Professor of Philosophy, at the University of Oklahoma, Norman; and Professor of Philosophy at Temple University,  the position he currently holds. In addition, he has served as the Chair of the Philosophy Departments at these universities.

Mohanty is internationally known for his works on phenomenology, which include:  Edmund Husserl's Theory of Meaning (Martinus Nijhoff, 1964, 1977); Phenomenology and Ontology (Martinus Nijhoff, 1970), The Concept of Intentionality (St. Louis: Warren Green Inc. 1972), Husserl and Frege (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1982), The Possibility of Transcendental Phenomenology (Martinus Nijhoff, 1985); Transcendental Phenomenology: An Analytical Account (Oxford: Blackwell, 1989); and Phenomenology between Essentialism and Transcendentalism (Northwestern University Press, 1999). Other works include: Nicolai Hartmann and A. N. Whitehead: A Study in Recent Platonism (Calcutta: Progressive Publishers, 1957); Gan\gesåaķs Theory of Truth (Santiniketan: Center of Advanced Study in Philosophy, 1966); Reason in Indian Thought (Oxford University Press, 1992); The Self and its Modalities (Kluwer, 1999); Classical Indian Philosophy (Rowman and Littlefield, forthcoming); and The Self and its Other (Oxford University Press, India, forthcoming).
 
Office Address: Department of Philosophy
737 Anderson Hall
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Philadelphia, PA 19122
Office Phone: (215) 204-1744
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Member News: 9/00 SACP 4th International Research Conference in Asian & Comparative Philosophy Panel Participant: (1) Discussant, Panel I- The Author Meets His Critics: J.N. Mohanty and (2) Discussant, Panel VI- The Philosophy of J.N. Mohanty.

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Jan. '00, "Hot Off the Presses"-- Bina Gupta (SACP President, University of Missouri) and J.N. Mohanty (SACP Secretary-Treasurer, Temple University and Emory University) announce that their edited textbook, Philosophical Questions East and West, has just been published by Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc.

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Fall '99 "Member News"-- Bina Gupta, from the University of Missouri-Columbia, has been awarded a grant by the MU Research Council to co-produce, with J.N. Mohanty of Temple University/Emory University, the first English translation of the Pan=capaµdikaµvivaran\a (ģElucidation of Five partsī), a Sanskrit commentary which provides an elaborate and systematic exposition and defense of the Advaita Vedaµnta system of the Indian tradition.

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Jan. '99-- Abstract of paper presented at the SACP's 1999 international research meeting in Orissa, India.



 
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