Bina Gupta (PhD, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale) is Curators’ Professor Emerita in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Missouri-Columbia. She was a Curators’ Distinguished Research Professor of Philosophy (2004-2015), Professor of Philosophy (1990-2004) and Director of the South Asia Language and Area program (1978-2015) at University of Missouri. She is the author/editor of several books, over eighty articles, and numerous book reviews on subjects including Indian philosophy, Buddhism, feminism, and comparative philosophy. Her books include: Perceiving in Advaita Vedanta (Bucknell University Press, 1991), The Disinterested Witness: A Fragment of Advaita Vedanta Phenomenology (Northwestern University Press, 1998), Cit (Consciousness) (Oxford University Press, 2003), Reason and Experience in Indian Philosophy (Indian Council of Philosophical Research, 2009), An Introduction to Indian Philosophy: Perspectives on Reality, Knowledge, and  Freedom (Routledge, 2012), and Consciousness, Knowledge and Ignorance ("Treasury of the Indic Sciences," American Institute of Buddhist Studies, 2012). Additionally, she has given over 100 presentations at national and international conferences in India, Germany, Denmark, England, Finland, and Korea. From 1998 to 2001, Professor Gupta served as the President of the Society for Asian and Comparative philosophy, an international alliance of researchers and scholars working in the area of Asian and comparative philosophy.