Amita Chatterjee
Amita Chatterjee | |
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Chatterjee in 2025 | |
| 1st Vice-Chancellor of Presidency University | |
| In office 5 October 2010 – 5 October 2011 | |
| Chancellor | Governor of West Bengal |
| Governor | M.K. Narayanan D. Y. Patil (additional charge) Keshari Nath Tripathi Jagdeep Dhankhar |
| Succeeded by | Prof. Malabika Sarkar |
| 2nd Vice-President of International Union of History and Philosophy of Science | |
| In office 2016–2019 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 13 September 1950 |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Alma mater | Presidency College, Kolkata, University of Calcutta |
Amita Chatterjee (born 13 September 1950) is a philosopher of science and logician, first vice-chancellor of Presidency University Kolkata and is professor emerita at the School of Cognitive Science of Jadavpur University in Kolkata, India. In 2019 her contributions to philosophy were recognized with the publication of a 2-volume festschrift in her honour: Mind and Cognition- An Interdisciplinary Sharing (Essays in Honour of Amita Chatterjee) by Kuntala Bhattacharya, Madhucchanda Sen and Smita Sirker.