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Smita Sirker

Smita Sirker
Smita Sirker
Professor
Centre/School/Special Centre
Centre for Philosophy,
School of Social Sciences
Room No
308, SSS-I
Off. Phone
011-26704170
Email
smitasirker@jnu.ac.in ; ssirker@gmail.com
Personal Webpage
http://www.jnu.ac.in
Qualifications

Ph.D

Areas of Interest/Specialization

Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Philosophy of Mind, Moral Psychology

Experience

April 2016: Associate Professor, Centre for Philosophy, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University


February 2006 - March 2016: Faculty at the Department of Philosophy, Jadavpur University; & Adjunct Faculty, School of Cognitive Science, Jadavpur University


Nov 2013 - Aug 2014: Joint Director, School of Cognitive Science, Jadavpur University


2012-13 - March 2016: Associate Editor, Jadavpur Journal of Philosophy 

Awards & Honours

Under the ICSSR-NWO Exchange Program 2010, was invited to visit the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands for a period of 3 months (September 2011 – November 2011) to work on the project ‘Factors Indicating Variation in Patterns of Reasoning in Schooled and Unschooled People: A Cross-Cultural Study’ in collaboration with Professor. Michiel van Lambalgen, ILLC/Department of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

International Collaboration/Consultancy

1. "Gettier Was Framed?", co-authored with Edouard Machery, Stephen Stich, David Rose et al.(forthcoming)



2. "Pluralism in Mathematics", co-authored with Mihir K. Chakraborty, in Journal of Mathematics and Culture, Issue 10, No. 1, ISSN – 1558 – 5336, 2016



3. "Gettier Across Cultures", co-authored with Edouard Machery, Stephen Stich, David Rose et al., in Noûs, 2015, pp. 1-20, doi: 10.1111/nous.12110.



4. "Do Challenge To Truth And Consistency Also Redefine Boundaries Of Rationality?", co-authored with Mihir K. Chakraborty, in Logos Architekton, Vol. 4, No. 1-2, Cluj University Press, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 2010, pp. 7-27.



5. "Dinnaga and Mental Models: A Reconstruction", co-authored with Amita Chatterjee, in Philosophy East and West, University of Hawaii, 60:3, July 2010, pp. 315-340.