Jitendra Nath Mohanty

Jitendra Nath Mohanty (1928 – 7 March 2023) was an Indian philosopher. He served as emeritus professor of philosophy at

Mohanty's area of expertise included both Western (particularly German) philosophy and Eastern philosophy (particularly Indian philosophy). He wrote over twenty scholarly books and numerous journal articles on different areas of philosophy including epistemology, logic, and phenomenology. He wrote extensively on Immanuel Kant, founded Husserl Studies, and published a major book on the development of Edmund Husserl’s thought.^[1]

Mohanty was also a president of the Indian Philosophical Congress, the Society for Asian and Comparative philosophy. His other honours included a gold medal from the

• Lectures on Kant's Critique of Pure Reason by J. N. Mohanty (edited by Tara Chatterjea, Sandhya Basu, and Amita Chatterjee) (Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 2014)
• Essays on Consciousness and Interpretation by J. N. Mohanty (edited with an Introduction by Tara Chatterjea) (Oxford University Press, 2009)
• The Philosophy of Edmund Husserl: A Historical Development (Yale Studies in Hermeneutics) (Yale University Press)
• Between Two Worlds: East and West, an Autobiography (Oxford University Press, 2002)
• Classical Indian Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 2002)
• Explorations in Western Philosophy: Essays by J.N. Mohanty Volumes 1 and 2 by J. N. Mohanty and (edited by Bina Gupta) (Oxford University Press, 2001)
• The Self and its Other (Oxford University Press, 2000).
• Logic, Truth, and the Modalities (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999).
• The Possibility of Transcendental Philosophy (Martinus Nijoff Publishers, 1985).
• Husserl and Frege (Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy) (Indiana University Press, 1982).
• Edmund Husserl's Theory of Meaning (Springer, 1976).
• The Concept of Intentionality (Warren H. Green, 1971).

References

External links

• Mohanty's profile at Temple
• A dose of old-school Indian honesty