Sudipta Munsi

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Sudipta Munsi received his Ph.D. in Philological and Literary, Historical and Cultural Studies from the University of Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy, for his thesis on Jayanta Bhaṭṭa’s theory of sentence-meaning in /Nyāyamañjarī/ (April 2023). Working primarily with Sanskrit philosophical texts and their interpretations in classical Sanskrit commentaries and modern Sanskrit, Bengali and Hindi expository works, he specialises in Nyāya, Mīmāṃsā and Advaita Vedānta schools of philosophy and the cultural and intellectual history of South Asia with a special focus on epistemological and linguistic theories. His long-term research interests are in, albeit not confined to, the interface between classical Sanskrit philosophies and Āyurveda, ancient Indian art and aesthetics, philosophy of language in Sanskrit, the role of Purāṇas in the making of the society and culture of early medieval and medieval Bengal.

Since July 2023, Munsi is working at the Department of South Asian, Tibetan and Buddhist Studies, University of Vienna, Austria, as a postdoctoral researcher in the research project, “Ayurveda and Philology: Gangadhar Ray Kaviraj and his legacy”, funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). Prior to this, he worked as pre-doctoral researcher (May 2018-December 2019) at the Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, in an interdisciplinary research project entitled “Reasoning Tools for Deontic Logic and Applications to Indian Sacred Texts”, funded by the Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF).