Nalini Bhushan

Nalini Bhushan is an American philosopher and the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Smith College.[1] Her work is on the philosophy of chemistry and Indian philosophy, among other subjects.

Lee C. McIntyre described Bhushan's edited volume Of Minds and Molecules (2000), co-edited with her husband Stuart Rosenfeld, as an effort to provide a "synthesis" of the field to date.[2] A review in Philosophy of Science stated that the essays collected in Of Minds and Molecules were "helping" philosophy of chemistry "to take its place in the world of ideas".[3] Another reviewer noted, however, that a number of anthologies of papers in the field had previously been published, and thus that the book's claim to be the "first" such anthology was probably inaccurate.[4]

Her monograph Minds without Fear: Philosophy in the Indian Renaissance (2017), co-authored with Jay L. Garfield, argues that Indian intellectual life during the British Raj was vibrant—contrary to the assumptions of many scholars.[5][6] Minds without Fear was the subject of several essays in a symposium in Sophia.[7]

Selected bibliography

• Bhushan, Nalini; Rosenfeld, Stuart M., eds. (2000). Of Minds and Molecules: New Philosophical Perspectives on Chemistry. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-535181-1. OCLC 352886903.
• Bhushan, Nalini; Garfield, Jay L. (June 22, 2017). Minds without Fear: Philosophy in the Indian Renaissance. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oso/9780190457594.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-19-045759-4.

Notes

1. "Nalini Bhushan". Smith College. Retrieved August 28, 2020.
2. McIntyre, Lee (2003). "Review of Of Minds and Molecules: New Philosophical Perspectives on Chemistry". The Philosophical Review. 112 (1): 114. doi:10.1215/00318108-112-1-113. ISSN 0031-8108. JSTOR 3595568.
3. Vollmer, S. H. (April 2000). "The Philosophy of Chemistry Reformulating Itself: Nalini Bhushan and Stuart Rosenfeld's Of Minds and Molecules". Philosophy of Science. 70 (2): 383–390. doi:10.1086/375473. ISSN 0031-8248. S2CID 170687225.
4. Schummer, Joachim (2003). "Review of Of Minds and Molecules: New Philosophical Perspectives on Chemistry". The Philosophical Quarterly. 53 (211): 301–303. ISSN 0031-8094. JSTOR 3542878.
5. Sen, Amiya P. (December 2018). "Book Review: Nalini Bhushan and Jay L. Garfield, Minds Without Fear: Philosophy in the Indian Renaissance". Indian Historical Review. 45 (2): 300–302. doi:10.1177/0376983618804370. ISSN 0376-9836. S2CID 151168423.
6. Clarke, Evan (August 2018). "Review of Minds Without Fear". Philosophy in Review. 38 (3): 92–94.
7. "Sophia volume 58, issue 1". Springer. Retrieved August 28, 2020.