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Jitendra Nath Mohanty (1928 – 7 March 2023) was an Indian philosopher. He served as emeritus professor of philosophy at
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.


Biography

Born in
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, in 1928 in
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, Mohanty had a distinguished career where he stood first in all public examinations and in
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and
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examination at the
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. Subsequently, he did a
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from
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in 1954. In his long academic career, he taught at the
University of Burdwan The University of Burdwan (also known as Burdwan University or B. U.) is a public state university located in Purba Bardhaman, West Bengal, India. It was established by the West Bengal Government as a teaching and affiliating university on 1 ...
,
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,
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,
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,
Emory University Emory University is a private university, private research university in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. It was founded in 1836 as Emory College by the Methodist Episcopal Church and named in honor of Methodist bishop John Emory. Its main campu ...
, and
Temple University Temple University (Temple or TU) is a public university, public Commonwealth System of Higher Education, state-related research university in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It was founded in 1884 by the Baptist ministe ...
and held visiting professorships at many renowned universities. Mohanty's area of expertise included both
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(particularly
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) philosophy and
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(particularly
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). He wrote over twenty scholarly books and numerous journal articles on different areas of philosophy including
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,
logic Logic is the study of correct reasoning. It includes both formal and informal logic. Formal logic is the study of deductively valid inferences or logical truths. It examines how conclusions follow from premises based on the structure o ...
, and
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. He wrote extensively on
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, founded ''Husserl Studies,'' and published a major book on the development of
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’s thought. Mohanty was also a president of the Indian Philosophical Congress, the Society for Asian and Comparative philosophy. His other honours included a gold medal from the
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,
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, and the
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from the German government in honor of his scholarly work. He received an honorary
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from the
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in 2013 and an honorary doctorate from
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in 2017. Mohanty died in
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on 7 March 2023, at the age of 95.


Selected bibliography

* ''Lectures on Kant's Critique of Pure Reason'' by J. N. Mohanty (edited by Tara Chatterjea, Sandhya Basu, and Amita Chatterjee) (Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 2014) * ''Essays on Consciousness and Interpretation'' by J. N. Mohanty (edited with an Introduction by Tara Chatterjea) (Oxford University Press, 2009) * ''The Philosophy of Edmund Husserl: A Historical Development (Yale Studies in Hermeneutics)'' (
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) * ''Between Two Worlds: East and West, an Autobiography'' (Oxford University Press, 2002) * ''Classical Indian Philosophy'' (Oxford University Press, 2002) * ''Explorations in Western Philosophy: Essays by J.N. Mohanty Volumes 1 and 2'' by J. N. Mohanty and (edited by Bina Gupta) (Oxford University Press, 2001) * ''The Self and its Other'' (Oxford University Press, 2000). * ''Logic, Truth, and the Modalities'' (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999). * ''The Possibility of Transcendental Philosophy'' (Martinus Nijoff Publishers, 1985). * ''Husserl and Frege (Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy)'' (Indiana University Press, 1982). * ''Edmund Husserl's Theory of Meaning'' (Springer, 1976). * ''The Concept of Intentionality'' (Warren H. Green, 1971).


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Mohanty's profile at Temple A dose of old-school Indian honesty
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