Enakshi Ray Mitra

Enakshi Ray Mitra is an Indian philosopher specializing in the areas of logic, philosophy of language, and philosophy of action. Her works primarily focus on analytic philosophy, especially later Wittgenstein. She is an ardent defender of non-foundationalism of language and argues that Later Wittgenstein's philosophy can be best understood in terms of non-foundationalism. She is currently teaching in the Department of Philosophy, University of Delhi.

Career

Enakshi Mitra completed her B.A. (Hons.) in Philosophy from the renowned Lady Brabourne College of the University of Calcutta in 1982, followed by an M.A. in Philosophy from the same university in 1986. She then moved to Jadavpur University, a then-center of Analytic philosophy in India, to pursue further research in Philosophy, earning an M.Phil. in Philosophy in 1993. She earned her PhD in Philosophy in 2004, defending a thesis on Later Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Language and Mathematics. Prof. Shefali Moitra was her thesis advisor and Bob Hale (philosopher) served as the external examiner. In 2005, Mitra accepted a permanent position in the Department of Philosophy, University of Delhi where she is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy.

Enakshi Mitra served as a Fellow of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study. Enakshi Mitra is one of the 120 members of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society.

Books

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   Enakshi Mitra (Second from Right) during her book launch.

   Later Wittgenstein on Language and Mathematics, 2017, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla.
2. Reference, As Action, Space And Time In Later Wittgenstein, 2019, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla.

Selected articles

1. "Russell and Carnap: Constructing Metaphysical Dichotomies" in History of Indian Science, Philosophy and Culture, Volume XII, Part 5 titled Materialism and Immaterialism in India and the West: Varying Vistas, 2010, Centre for Studies in Civlization, Delhi
2. "Russell‟s Navigation with Judgements: Through the Routes of Logical Atomism" in Revisiting Principia Mathematica after 100 year's, 2011, Gangchil, Kolkata.
3. "Ethical Language: With Special Reference to Wittgenstein" in Understanding Ethics, 2013, Macmillan, Delhi
4. "Understanding Yudhishthira‟s Actions: Recasting KarmaYoga in a Wittgensteinian Mould" in Mahabharata Now, 2014, Routledge, Delhi.
5. "A Brief Survey of Indian Logic : Nyaya, Bauddha, and Jaina" in Introduction to Logic, 2015, Pearson, Delhi.
6. "Space and Consciousness: Reconstructing Dualism and Behaviourism" in Self, Consciousness and Body, 2017, Nectar, Kolkata.

External links

• A review of Enakshi Mitra's Later Wittgenstein on Language and Mathematics https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40961-018-0169-3

• http://iias.ac.in/publication/later-wittgenstein-language-and-mathematics-non-foundational-narration

• Enakshi Mitra on PhilPeople
• Enakshi Mitra's book indexed in PhilPapers.

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