Shakuntala Singh

Shakuntala Singh

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Shakuntala Singh Profile

  • Name:
  • Shakuntala Singh
  • Born:
  • February 14, 1952
  • Spouse:
  • Ajai R. Singh

Shakuntala Singh Biography

Shakuntala Singh is an educational administrator, professor of philosophy and deputy editor of the Mens Sana Monographs. She is married to Ajai R. Singh, a psychiatrist, a columnist and an occasional poet who serves as the editor of Mens Sana Monographs, belonging to World Association of Medical Editors. Together they have written and edited many monographs for Mens Sana Monographs. Now she serves as the principal and head of the Department of Philosophy and director of the Research Center in Philosophy at Joshi-Bedekar College of Arts and Commerce, Thane.

 

She was born on 14 February 1952 in Karwar, North Kanara, Karnataka. She completed Master’s in philosophy from Karnatak University in 1973, and Ph.D. degree from University of Mumbai in comparative philosophy in 1984. In 1980, she received a fellowship from the Indian University Grants Commission for 4 years. From 1992 to 1995, she worked as a postdoctoral fellow of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research. Singh joined as the lecturer in philosophy at Joshi-Bedekar College, Thane in 1975 where she worked for next two decades. During this time, she completed her PhD and postdoctoral research. She became a senior lecturer in 1995 and became HOD in 2000. In 2005, she was appointed as its principal.

 

During 1980’s and 1990’s, she worked on meta-philosophy and her works were based on the subjects revolving around the creative and comparative approaches, related to the same subject. Indian science and understanding the essence of scientific temper were her subjects since 2003.  Her subjects of columns and lectures are related to logic and Nyaya, philosophy of science and of psychiatry, metaphilosophy, and bioethics. Singh is a co-founder of the Mens Sana Research Foundation and deputy editor of its publication, the Mens Sana Monographs.

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Updated: February 24, 2014

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