INDRANI SANYAL, Ph.D.
indranisnyl@yahoo.co.in

Professor Sanyal received the degree of Ph.D. from Jadavpur University and joined the Department of Philosophy at Jadavpur University as member of faculty.
Professor Sanyal’s research interests are varied. She is interested in Ethics, particularly in Indian Ethics and its application. She is also interested in the Philosophy of Logic and Language, in Indian and Western Metaphysics and in the Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo. Along with her colleagues, Professor Sanyal has helped in the setting up of a Sri Aurobindo Studies Centre at the Department of Philosophy, Jadavpur University under the UGC Scheme on Epoch-Making Social Thinkers.
Professor Sanyal has been working on a group project on ‘Sruti as the Foundation of Indian Social and Moral Tradition’. This project is an attempt to understand the true spirit of the Hindu moral tradition and its notion of values in reference to practical life and environment. Professor Sanyal is also working on a group project called ‘Value and Applied Philosophy’ on the nature of moral value in the context of moral dilemma. She is also involved in a project called ‘Belief and Life: From the Perspective of Indian Ethics’.Here is a list of Professor

Sanyal’s important publications in the last few years:

Professor Sanyal has written a book called On Essentialist Claims published by Allied Publishers in collaboration with Jadavpur University in 2002 as part of the series called Jadavpur Studies in Philosophy. Professor Sanyal has also co-edited a book in Bengali bearing the title, Wittgenstein : Jagat, Bhasha O Chintan, published by Allied Publishers in collaboration with Jadavpur University in 1998.