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Nalini Bhushan is an American philosopher and the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities at Smith College. 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. 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". 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.

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. Minds without Fear was the subject of several essays in a symposium in Sophia.

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.

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