Introduction to Ethics (PDF)

Chhanda Chakraborti is an active thinker, author, and a professor of Philosophy. Her Ph.D. is from University of Utah, USA. Her M.A. degree in Philosophy is from University of Washington, Seattle, USA, and a second M.A in Philosophy is from Jadavpur University, India. She served as a Professor of Philosophy at Department of HSS, IIT Kharagpur, India, and has visited several universities abroad for academic and professional purpose. After retirement from IIT Kharagpur, she has joined School of Liberal Arts, IIT Jodhpur.



Her current active research areas are Public Health Ethics and Ethics of Artificial Intelligence. For years, she has served as a nominated key member in the Institute Ethics Committee for Research involving Human Subjects at IIT Kharagpur. She has also served as a nominated member of the Editorial Advisory Body of Indian Journal of Medical Ethics. She organized several international and national conferences, workshops, and seminars, including an International Symposium on Infectious and Communicable Diseases and the Global Spread: Bioethical Issues and Concerns at the 10th World Bioethics Congress in Singapore on July 28-31, 2010. She has also organized many training programs, including programs on 'Professional Ethics'. Recipient of many awards and fellowships, she has over 30 years of experience in research guidance, multidisciplinary research collaboration, and curriculum development. In two of her most recent sponsored projects, she will investigate the ethical issues with the technologically manipulated information, such as Deep Fake, and with Digital Twins such as Digital Twins of heritage objects. With a long history of research experience and a varied range of research interests, she is still willing to learn and do more.