Faculty Lecture Series Spring 2012

March 22, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Mānoa Campus, Hamilton Library Room 301

Arindam Chakravarty, Philosophy

Translation and Toleration: A Study of Al-Beruni, Abhinavagupta, James Ballantyne, and Max Muller

Professor Chakrabarti received his doctorate from Oxford University, England in 1982. From 1983 to 1988 he was a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Calcutta, India. Between 1988 and 1992 he held the Spalding Visiting Fellowship at Wolfson College, Oxford, a Fellowship at the Institute of Advanced Study at Edinburgh, Jacobsen Fellowship and tutorship at University College London and a Visiting Assistant Professorship at the University of Washington, Seattle. After being trained as an analytic philosopher of language at Oxford, Professor Chakrabarti has spent several years receiving traditional training in Indian logic (Navya Nyaya) and metaphysics which made him fluent in Sanskrit. Before coming to Hawaii in 1997, he was a Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Delhi, India. Professor Chakrabarti has edited or authored four books and has published numerous articles and reviews. He is currently working on a book on moral psychology.


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Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education, Office of Research Relations, and the University of Hawaii at Manoa Library, Mānoa Campus

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