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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|Former vice-chancellor of Presidency University, Kolkata}}<br />
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| name = Amita Chatterjee<br />
| image = Amita_Chatterjee.png<br />
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| caption = Chatterjee in 2025<br />
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1950|9|13}}<br />
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| nationality = [[Indian people|Indian]]<br />
| alma_mater = [[Presidency College, Kolkata]], [[University of Calcutta]]<ref>[http://twocircles.net/2010oct06/amita_chattopadhyay_first_vice_chancellor_presidency_university.html TwoCircles.net, India News; 6 October 2010]; [https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/comfort-factor-confines-presidency-to-home-pool-amita-chatterjee-retired-philosophy-professor-named-vice-chancellor-of-new-varsity/cid/472644 The Telegraph India; 6 October 2010]</ref><ref>[https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/author/37065282000 ieeeexplore.org, India News; 6 October 2010]</ref><br />
| office = 1st Vice-Chancellor of [[Presidency University, Kolkata|Presidency University]]<ref>[https://www.telegraphindia.com/west-bengal/presi-vc-to-stay-for-now/cid/342711 Telegraph India website: Vice Chancellor]</ref><ref>[https://digitallearning.eletsonline.com/2010/10/presidency-university-gets-its-first-vice-chancellor/ eletsonline India website: Vice Chancellor]</ref><br />
| governor = [[M.K. Narayanan]]<br>[[D. Y. Patil]] ''(additional charge)''<br>[[Keshari Nath Tripathi]]<br>[[Jagdeep Dhankhar]]<br />
| term_start = 5 October 2010<br />
| term_end = 5 October 2011<br />
| predecessor = <br />
| successor = Prof. [[Malabika Sarkar]]<br />
| awards = <br />
| native_name_lang = অমিতা চ্যাটার্জি<br />
| chancellor = [[Governor of West Bengal]]<br />
| office2 = 2nd Vice-President of [[International Union of History and Philosophy of Science]]<ref>[https://dlmps.org/pages/history/past-council-members.php DLMPST website: Past Council Members]</ref><br />
| termend2 = 2019<br />
| termstart2 = 2016<br />
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'''Amita Chatterjee''' (born 13 September 1950<ref>[http://dlmps.org/pages/history/past-council-members.php DLMPST website: Past Council Members]</ref>) is a [[philosopher of science]] and [[logician]], first vice-chancellor of [[Presidency University, Kolkata|Presidency University]] Kolkata<ref>{{Cite web |last=TwoCircles.net |date=2010-10-06 |title=Amita Chattopadhyay first vice chancellor of Presidency University |url=https://twocircles.net/2010oct06/amita_chattopadhyay_first_vice_chancellor_presidency_university.html |access-date=2025-01-08 |website=TwoCircles.net |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2010-10-27 |title=The new vice-chancellor of Presidency university - Amita Chatterjee visited the campus on Tuesday. She met principal Amitava Chatterjee along with a few alumni association members. |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/the-new-vice-chancellor-of-presidency-university-amita-chatterjee-visited-the-campus-on-tuesday-she-met-principal-amitava-chatterjee-along-with-a-few-alumni-association-members-/articleshow/6820712.cms |access-date=2025-01-08 |work=The Times of India |issn=0971-8257}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2011-09-19 |title=All not well at Presidency |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/kolkata/all-not-well-at-presidency/ |access-date=2025-01-08 |website=The Indian Express |language=en}}</ref> and is professor [[Emeritus|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.<ref name="Bhattacharya">{{cite book |last1=Bhattacharya |first1=Kuntala |last2=Sen |first2=Madhucchanda |last3=Sirker |first3=Smita |title=Mind and cognition : essays in honour of Amita Chatterjee |date=2019 |publisher=D.K. Printworld |location=New Delhi |isbn=978-8124609507}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://philpapers.org/rec/CHAMAC-13 |title=Mind and Cognition, an Interdisciplinary Sharing: Essays in Honour of Amita Chatterjee |date=2019 |publisher=DK Printworld |editor-last=Chatterjee |editor-first=Amita |location=New Delhi |editor-last2=Bhattacharya |editor-first2=Kuntala |editor-last3=Sen |editor-first3=Madhucchanda |editor-last4=Sirker |editor-first4=Smita}}</ref><br />
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== Biography ==<br />
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Chatterjee studied at [[Presidency College, Kolkata]]<ref>[http://twocircles.net/2010oct06/amita_chattopadhyay_first_vice_chancellor_presidency_university.html TwoCircles.net, India News; 6 October 2010]; <br />
[https://www.telegraphindia.com/india/comfort-factor-confines-presidency-to-home-pool-amita-chatterjee-retired-philosophy-professor-named-vice-chancellor-of-new-varsity/cid/472644 The Telegraph India; 6 October 2010]</ref> and she received her Ph.D. from [[University of Calcutta]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Amita Chatterjee- IEEE |url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/author/37065282000 |access-date=2025-01-08 |website=ieeexplore.ieee.org |language=en-US}}</ref> She was a professor of [[philosophy]] at [[Jadavpur University]] from 1979 to 2010. During this time, she co-ordinated the ''Centre for Cognitive Science'' at Jadavpur University and was the Head of the Department of Philosophy. From 2010 to 2011, she was the first [[Vice Chancellor]] of [[Presidency University, Kolkata]]. After this, she returned to [[Jadavpur University]]. From 2016 to 2019, she served as Second Vice President of the [[DLMPST|Division for Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science and Technology]]. She served as editor for numerous academic journals, among them [[Philosophy East and West]], and has been an important member of the ''Calcutta Logic Circle'' a group of logicians from mathematics, philosophy and computer science in [[West Bengal]].<ref>[https://sites.google.com/site/schoolnewsite/emeritus School of Cognitive Science, Jadavpur University]</ref><br />
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