Arunima Chakraborty

Arunima Chakraborty

Designation

Assistant Professor Grade II
Academic Group: Business Ethics & Communication Group

Contact

Phone No.: 91-33- 2467 8300 Extn. 2006
Email ID.: arunima.chakraborty@iimcal.ac.in

Curriculum Vitae

Arunima Chakraborty CV

Biography

Website:

www.iimcal.ac.in/users/arunimachakraborty

Academics

Academic Background:

  • PhD in Continental Philosophy, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta,
  • MPhil in Social Sciences, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta,
  • MA, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai
  • BA (History), Cotton College, Guwahati.

Courses Taught:

MBA COURSES

 

  • Core/Compulsory Business Ethics course (Term III, 1.5 credits). 

  • Core/Compulsory Interdisciplinary course: The Firm (Term I, 1.5 credits.

  • Elective: Ethics of Technology and its Relevance for Business (Term IV, 3 credits). 

     

DOCTORAL COURSE

  • Doctoral Programme elective: Metaphysics, Epistemology and the Management Sciences (Term IV, 3 credits).

Awards:

  • Recipient of doctoral fellowship offered by ICSSR (Indian Council of Social Science Research) from 2014 to 2017.

  • Recipient of MPhil fellowship offered by IDRC (International Development Research Centre) from 2012 to 2014.

 

Experience

Work Experience:

  • Employed as an Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta in the Business Ethics and Communication group since April, 2024.

Research

Journal Publications:

2025

  • Chakraborty, A. (Forthcoming) ‘Materialisms without Reductionisms: A Reassessment’, is forthcoming in the next issue of the Indian Philosophical Quarterly, ISSN: 0376-415X, Indexed in the UGC-Care list.

 

2024

  • Bhuyan, N., Chakraborty, A. (2024) ‘The Role of Courage within Moral Imagination: A Critique’, Journal of Business Ethics. Online ISSN: 1573-0697. (An FT 50 journal). DOI: 10.1007/s10551-024-05897-4. 

     

  • Chakraborty, A. (2024) ‘Ancient Sceptics and the basis of their actions: A Comparitive Study of Jayarasi Bhatta and the Pyrrhonists’, Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research. E-ISSN: 2363-9962. (Journal indexed in SCOPUS, UGC-CARE list). DOI: 10.1007/s40961-024-00345-0 
     

2023

 

  • ‘Chakraborty, A (2023) Scientific Realism and Quantum Theory: On the Status of the Unobservables’ published on 15th June, 2023 in Journal of Critical Realism 22 (2), 445-466. Online ISSN: 1476-7430. (Journal indexed in SCOPUS). Impact Factor: 2.6 (2022). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14767430.2023.2217051 

     

  • Bhuyan, N. And Chakraborty, A (2023) ‘The Problem of Autonomy: An Alternative Notion of Excellence in Business Ethics’ published online 2nd June, 2023 in Journal of Business Ethics 185 (2). Co-author. Online ISSN: 1573-0697. (An FT 50 Journal).DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-023-05454-5
     

  • Bhuyan, N. And Chakraborty, A (2023) ‘The Problem of Efficiency: Redefining the Relation Between Success and Excellence in Business Ethics’ in Philosophy of Management 22 (2). Published online: 1st April, 2023. (Journal indexed in ABDC journal list, SCOPUS). Impact Factor: 1.2 (2022). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40926-023-00234-7. ISSN (online): 2052-9597. 

     

  • Chakraborty, A and Bhuyan, N. (2023) ‘Can artificial intelligence be a Kantian moral agent? On moral autonomy of AI system’ in AI and Ethics. Published online: 7th March, 2023. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s43681-023-00269-6. ISSN (online): 2730-5961. 


 

2022

  • Bhuyan, N. And Chakraborty, A. (2022) ‘Hartman's Quandary: Reconciling Pluralism and Realism for Virtue Ethics in Business’ in Business Ethics, the Environment & Responsibility, 2022. 32( 1), 226–235. ISSN (online): 2694-6424. DOI: 10.1111/beer.12454. (Journal indexed in ABDC journal list, SCOPUS).


 

2020

  • Bhuyan, N. And Chakraborty, A (2020) ‘The Fact-Value Dichotomy: Rethinking Business Ethics as a Mediating Discourse’ in Teaching Ethics, 2020. 20(1/2), 113-125. ISSN (online): 2154-0551. DOI: 10.5840/tej202132584. 


 

2015

  • Chakraborty, A and Basu, R. (2015) ‘The Immediate and the Impossible: Review of Anirban Das’ Towards a Politics of the (Im)possible. The Body in Third World Feminism.’ in Journal of Jadavpur University’s School of Women Studies, 2015. 33, 80-82. ISSN:2394-2142. 

ACCEPTED PAPERS

 

  • Chakraborty, A. (2023/2024) ‘The Status of Observation and Experience in the Medical Materialism of La Mettrie’ is forthcoming in 2023 at the Rabindra Bharati Journal of Philosophy. ISSN (Print): 0973-0087. 

 

Conferences:

2024

  • Presented a paper titled ‘The Hallucinating ‘ Stochastic Parrot’: On Emily Bender’s Critique of the Posthumanist Strong AI Discourse’ as a plenary session lecture at the International Symposium on ‘Becoming Humans, Becoming Machines: Selfhood and Technology in the Digital Age’ organised by the University of Engineering and Management, Kolkata in December, 2024.

  • Chaired a session titled ‘Importance of Transparency versus the Black Box Effect of AI for Work’ at the Fore School of Management, Delhi’s international conference, in November 2024.

  • Presented a lecture titled Creating Culture of Integrity/Ethics in Large Organisations at the Steel Authority of India, Kolkata on the occasion of Vigilance week in October, 2024.

  •  Co-authored and presented a research paper titled ‘Autonomous AI, Responsible Business: The Problem with Principles’ at the international conference on ‘Enabling Social and Business Responsibilities in Globalised World’ organised by the XLRI, Jamshedpur in February, 2024.

2018:

  • Presented a section of doctoral dissertation at a workshop at the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru on ‘Egalitarianism and Hierarchy in Western Doxa’ in September, 2018.


 


 


 

Research Interests:

  • Philosophy of Science (Scientific Methods, Reasoning, Objectivity, Causation, Epistemological Foundations of Management Studies)
  • Philosophy and Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (AI Mind, Strong AI vs. Weak AI discourses, Symbolic AI, Normative constructions of AI, AI ethical governance, epistemological challenges of Big Data)
  • Ethics (Virtue Ethics, Kantian Deontology), Business Ethics, Business Ethics Pedagogy

Articles/Cases:

  • ‘The Curious Case of Compulsory CSR in India’. Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta Case Research Centre publication. July 2022. Co-author. https://ir.iimcal.ac.in:8443/jspui/handle/123456789/4484 

  • ‘Facebook Free Basics: Bridging the Digital Divide, Or Destroying Net- Neutrality?’ Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta Case Research Centre publication. 2019. Co-author. https://ir.iimcal.ac.in:8443/jspui/handle/123456789/3823