Professor University of Hyderabad, Jan 2019 Till date
Professor IIT Delhi, Dec 2012– Nov 2018
Associate Professor IIT Delhi, Oct 2008 – Dec2012
Visiting Associate Professor, IIT Delhi, (Under Inter-IIT Faculty Exchange program), July 2007 – Oct 2008
Associate Professor, IIT Kanpur,Dec 2005 – July 2007
Assistant Professor, IIT Kanpur, Dec 1999 – Dec 2005
Lecturer, IIT Kanpur, July 1997 – Dec 1999
Lecturer, University of Goa, June 1996 – July 1997
Areas of Specialization +
Philosophy of Mind
Philosophy of Language
Epistemology
Teaching/Research Interests +
History of Philosophy
Philosophy of Mind
Philosophy of Science
Philosophy of Mind
Cognition
Philosophy of Language
Ethics
Introductory Philosophy
Introductory Logic
Kant’s Critical Philosophy
Research Supervision +
Justrus Mathew, Epistemology: An Enquiry into the Concept of Evidence
Deborah C. Singsit, The Problem of Personal Identity with Reference to Disassociate identity Disorder
Nabanita Barman, Categorial Intuition and Intentionality: An Enquiry into Heidegger’s meaning of being in the object of perception
Raushan Kumar, Consciousness in Contemporary Analytical Philosophy of Mind
Medi Chaitanya, Problem of existence
Published Papers +
‘The Nature of the Relation Between Thought and Consciousness’, Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences, Vol. XXIII, No. 2, Winter: 2016: 1-31. (Published by IIAS, Shimla, November 2018).
‘Minimal Self and Infallibility of Self-knowledge,’ in Manidipa Zen (ed.), Problem of the Self: Subjectivity, Consciousness and the Other (Akaar Books, New Delhi. 2018): 65 - 76.
‘The World, the Other and I: Solipsistic Poems of Kunjunni,’ Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, 35, No. 1 (2018): 557–570.
‘Abortion: A Violation of the Dignity of Being Human’ Journal of Sacred Scriptures, Vol. 10, No. 1 (2016): 11-26
‘The Concept of the Absolute in F. H. Bradley’ in C. V. Babukaran (ed.), Dimensions of the Absolute (New Delhi. 2013)
‘Perceptual Content: Phenomenal and Intentional’ in Daniele Moyal- sharrok, Volker A. Munz and Annaliza Coliva (Eds), Mind, Language and Action: Papers of the 36th International Wittgenstein Sympo- sium (Wissenchaft-Forschung Niederosterreich, Kirchberg am Wechsel, 2013): 69-71.
Hume on the Nature and Knowledge of the Self,’ Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, Vol. 29, No. 2 (2012): 143-152.
'The Nature of Linguistic Representations’ in R. C. Pradhan (ed.) Lin- guistic Representations: The Road Ahead (D. K. Printworld, New Delhi, 2012): 414 – 437.
’Naiyayika Externalism and Gettier-like Counter Examples’ in Prajit K. Basu and S. G. Kulkarni (ed.) Epistemology, Science and Cognition (D. K. Printworld, New Delhi, 2010):52 -77
'Absent Qualia Argument: Shoemaker’s Response and its Tenability’ in A. V.Afonso (ed.), Consciousness and Values (Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla, 2006): 38 – 58.
‘The Nature of Mental Representations: Classicism versus Connection- ism’ with V Harinarayanan in R. C. Pradhan (ed.), Language and Mind (Hyderabad Studies in Philosophy Series No. 4. Decent Books, New Delhi, 2006): 102 – 124.
’Leibnitz’s Theory of Possible Worlds,’ Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, Vol. 22, No. 4 (2005): 115 - 136.
’A Berkeleian Model of Memory,’ with N. Varadarajan, Journal of In- dian Council of Philosophical Research Vol.22, No. 3 (2005): 93 - 121
’Scepticism about Particular Identity: Strawson vs. Suresh Chandra’ in R. C. Pradhan (ed.), The Philosophy of Suresh Chandra (Indian Council of Philosophical Research, New Delhi, 2004) pp: 174-195.
‘An Argument for the Unity of Consciousness’ in Amita Chatterjee (ed.), Perspectives on Consciousness (Jadavpur University, Kolkata in collaboration with Munshiram Manoharlal, New Delhi, 2003): 154 - 173.
‘On what it is like to be a Human Being: Towards an Alternative to Ramchandra Gandhi’s Model of Self-awareness’, Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research Vol. 18, No.3 (2001): 226 –241)
‘The Functionalist Model of the Mind: A Critique’, Jadavpur Journal of Philosophy, Vol.7, No.1 (1995): 1 – 17.
‘Kunjunnikkavitayile Dharsanam’, Deshabhimani Vaarika, Vol.26, No.6, July (1994): 7-9 , 43 – 46. Published as the title article, Kujunnikkav- itayilude.
‘Stalnaker on Possible Worlds and Propositions’, Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, Vol. 10, No. 3 (1993): 49 – 60.
‘On Resolving the Twin Paradox: A Philosophical Inquiry’, Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, Vol. 10, No. 2 (1993): 7 –16.
Invited Papers in Conferences/Seminars +
“Nature of Philosophical Thinking”, Keynote Address at Research Schol- ars Day Event, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, January 18 -19, 2020.
“Kant’s Theory of the Self” National Seminar on Self and the Other, Department of Philosophy, Calicut University, 6-8,, March 2019.
“Kant’s Theory of Apperception,” Phenomenology of Mind and Con- sciousness: Indian and Western Perspectives, Department of Philoso- phy, University of Madress, November 2018 Madrass University, 14 -15, November 2018.
”Thought Acts: Phenomenality, Intentionality, and Awareness,” Na- tional Seminar on Perspectives on Embodied Consciousness, Depart- ment of Philosophy, Presidency University, Kolkata (24 – 25 January 2018)
“Kant on the Ontological Status of Time”, International Seminar on The Present of the day, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (22 – 23 January 2018)
‘Putnam on Fact/Value Dichotomy,’ International Seminar on “The Philosophy of Hilary Putnam,” Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay (3 -5 October 2015)
‘Abortion as a Violation of the Dignity of the Human Being,’ Fr.Joseph Maliparambil Memorial Philosophical Symposium on “Retracing Ethics and Values: A Philosophical Quest” (19 September 2015) Cartesian Linguistics on Kantian Foundations,’ International Confer- ence on “Intentionality, Objectivity and Normativity,” Department of Philosophy, University of Hyderabad, (8 - 10 January 2015)
‘Embodiment and the Nature of Cognition,’ National Seminar on ”Em- bodied Cognition” (26 – 28 February, 2014) • ‘Davidson on Reductionist and Non-reductionist Empiricism’ Round Table Discussion On “Empiricism in Quine and Davidson”, Centre for Philosophy, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (19 October, 2013)
‘Perceptual Content: Phenomenal and Intentional’, 36th International Wittgenstein Symposium on “Mind, Language and Action,” Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society, Kirchberg am Wechsel, Vienna (11 – 17 August 2013) • ‘Self: Given Constructed and Posited,’ International Conference on “Problem of the Self: Debates in Consciousness Subjectivity and Oth- erness,” Centre for Philosophy, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (23 – 25 January 2013)
‘Self-identity and the other’ International seminar on “Identity and Otherness,” Department of Philosophy, Punjab University, Chandigarh (6 – 7 January 2013)
‘The Concept of the Absolute in F. H. Bradley,’ UGC-Sponsored Na- tional Seminar on “The Dimensions of the Absolute: An Indian Sce- nario”, The Department of Philosophy, Zakir Husain College, D.U., New Delhi (21 - 22 March 2012).
‘Embodiment: Merleau-Ponty Vs. Strawson’ in International Confer- ence on “PostPhenomenology: Being & Its Beyond”, Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady, Cochin (30 January - 1 February 2012)
‘The Nature of Linguistic Representations’ in National Seminar on ”Linguistic Representations: The Road Ahead,” Department of Phi- losophy, University of Hyderabad (5 – 7 January 2011)
‘Self-awareness: Inseparability of Ontology and Epistemology’ in One- day Colloquium on “Reading Discourses on Consciousness”, Centre for Philosophy, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, (29 November 2010).
’Naturalized Intentionality as a Foundation for Cognitive Science’ in National Seminar on “Epistemology and Cognitive Science: Their In- terplay in Contemporary Knowledge Analysis”, Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady, India (30 – 31 March 2010)
’Naturalizing Intentionality’ in National Seminar on “Mind and Mean- ing”, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad (15 – 17 March 2010) ’Lan- guage and Computations: Modularity Revisited’ (With Pritha Chan- dra) in The Fourth APCAP conference, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore (5 – 7 December 2008)
’Chomkyian Rationalism: Continuity and Discontinuity’ in National Seminar on Noam Chomsky and the Contemporary World, Pondicherry University (22 – 24 September 2008)
’The concept of Minimal Human Communication: Theory and Prac- tice’ in National Seminar on Metaphysical Presuppositions of Human Communication: A Seminar on Ramchandra Gandhi’s Philosophy, Uni- versity of Hyderabad (14 – 16, February 2008)
’Nyaya Externalism and Gettier- like Counter Examples,’ National Seminar on Epistemology and Cognition in Comparative Perspective, University of Hyderabad (19 – 21 March 2007)
’A Realist Philosophy of Social Sciences’ in ICPR-Sponsored National Seminar on Science, Society and Self: Revisiting Debates in Philosophy of Social Sciences, University of Goa (12 – 14 March 2007)
’Relevance of the Philosophy of Mind’ in National Seminar on Rele- vance of Philosophy in Ruhalaya, Ujjain, (July 2006)
’The Meaning of Chittavritti Nirodha’ in ICPR-Sponsored National Seminar on Yogamala: Synthesis of Philosophical Perspective on Yoga, University of Goa, (10 – 11 March 2006)
‘Are Mental Kind Terms Rigid Designators? in National Seminar on Mind and Language, University of Hyderabad. (November 16 -18, 2004)
‘A Cognitivist Approach to Creativity’ in National Seminar on Cogni- tive Science and Creativity, University of Hyderabad. (26 – 28, Febru- ary 2004)
‘Scepticism about Particular Identity: Strawson versus Suresh Chan- dra’ in National Seminar on Philosophy of Professor Suresh Chandra, Indian Council of Philosophical Research, New Delhi (21 – 23 October 2002)
‘Fodor’s Computational Representational Theory of Mind: A Critique’ in National Seminar on Cognitive Science, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad (6 – 8 February 2002)
‘An Argument for the Unity of Consciousness’ in National seminar on Mind, Language and the Evolution of Human Consciousness: Indian and Western Perspectives, Indian Council of Philosophical Research, Lucknow (24 – 26 July 2000)
‘Philosophical Perspectives of Kunjunni’s Poems’ in Seminar on Re- cent Trends in Malayalam Literature, Centre for Creative Writing and Publication, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (1999)
’Can We really Maintain the distinction between the subjective and the Objective’ in National Seminar on Consciousness and the Phenom- enal Mind, Indian Council of Philosophical Research, Butler Palace, Lucknow (February 22-24, 1999)
‘Phenomenology of Human Soul’ in ICPR National Seminar on Ad- dressing the Soul: The Metaphysics of Personal Pronoun, Organized by University of Bangalore and Indian Institute Technology Kanpur at Ecumenical Christian Centre, Bangalore (15 – 17 December 1998)
‘A Reply to Kripke’s Qualia Argument’ in National Seminar on The Concept of Mind Vismad Nad, Ludhiana (21 – 23 November 1997)
'Searle’s Cartesian Intuitions’ in Young Scholar’s Seminar on Descartes: Science, Rationality and Man, University of Hyderabad (28 – 29 Febru- ary 1996)
‘Functionalist Model of the Mind: A Critique’ in National Seminar on New Vistas in Humanities and Social Sciences hosted by Dept. of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (June, 1993)
Invited Talks +
“Scheme-Content Dualism And Two Versions Of Empiricism,” ICPR World Philosophy Day Webinar Organized by Department of Philoso- phy,University of Kerala ( 24 November 2020)
"Kant on the Ontological Status of Time,” Department of Philosophy, University of Hyderabad, (4 October 2018).
“Kant’s Theory of Apperception,” Department of Philosophy, Univer- sity of Hyderabad, (5 October 2018).
“Kant’s Theory of Human Intuition”, Department of Philosophy, Uni- versity of Delhi, (21 October 2016).
Conducted a one-day workshop on “Two Configurations of Reason: Reason as Method and Reason as a Human Faculty” Azim Premji University, Bangalore (9 June 2015).
‘Cartesian Approach to Naturalizing Intentionality,’ Centre for Philos- ophy, School of Sciences, JNU (10 November 2010).
Invited to teach a one-unit course (15 lectures each) on Philosophy of Mind at Ruhalaya College of Philosophy, Ujjain (December 2007 and December 2008).
Invited to deliver six talks each in the following refresher courses for university and college teachers: 1. A UGC-Sponsored Refresher Course conducted at Lucknow Uni- versity (26-28th December, 2001). 2. Refresher course organized for college teachers by the Directorate of Collegiate Education, Government of Kerala, at Cochin (14 -17 March 2000).