Prof. Dr. Hasna Begum (born February 24, 1935) is a contemporary Bangladeshi philosopher and feminist and was a professor of philosophy at the University of Dhaka until her retirement in December 2000. She earned her BA (1968) and MA (1969) from the University of Dhaka and her PhD (1978) in moral philosophy from Monash University, where she was the first doctoral advisee of Australian philosopher Peter Singer. The title of her doctoral dissertation was Moore’s Ethics: Theory and Practice.
Dr. Hasna Begum is a prolific author, and translated a number of philosophical classics into Bengali. Prof. Dr. Hasna Begum served as chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Dhaka from 1991 to 1994 and was appointed to the University Grants Commission (UGC) of Bangladesh’s Rokeya Chair in 2010.
