Ph.D., Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (2001)

Fulbright-Nehru Senior Research Fellow, Columbia University, New York (2010-11)

Epistemology:  Social Epistemology, Evolutionary Epistemology

Naturalistic Ethics

Issues in Philosophy of Language (especially Wittgenstein)

Research Articles   (Published/ accepted)

• "Understanding Scientific Normativity as Social Convention", (co-author Shonkholen Mate), Global Philosophy, 35:10,  Springer Nature  (2025). 
• “A Tightrope Walker: K. Satchidananda Murty on Religiosity”, in M.Mallick (ed.) Classical and Contemporary Perspectives of Indian Philosophy of Religion, , D.K.Printword (2024).
• “Can Social Reflective Equilibrium Delineate Cornell Realist Epistemology?”(co-author  Sushruth Ravish), Philosophia, Springer Nature (2023).
• “ Social Metaphysics: A Complementary Thesis to Social Ontology", (co-author  Bivishan Majhi), Philosophical Traditions of the World, Vol.VI No.1 (2023)
• “Popper’s Evolutionary Therapy to Meno’s Paradox” (co-author Lalit Saraswat), Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research (JICPR), Springer, Volume 36, Issue 1, 2019
• "The Duhem-Quine problem for equiprobable conjuncts” (co-author Abhishek Kashyap), Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, ELSEVIER, Vol.75 ,2019.
• “The Plausibility and Significance of Underdetermination Arguments” (co-author Abhishek Kashyap), Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research (JICPR), Springer, (In Press) Published online 2018.
• “Wittgenstein on ‘nonsense’” (co-author M. Mallick), Indian Philosophical Quarterly (IPQ), Vol. No. 40, 2016.
• “Ineffable Truths” (co-author M. Mallick), Athens Journal of Humanities & Arts (ISSN: 2241-7702) published by the Research Division of Arts and Humanities of ATINER, Athens, Greece, 2016.
• “Privacy of Moral Perspective”  (co-author M. Mallick), Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research (JICPR), Vol. 31 No.2, Springer, New Delhi, 2015.
• “Wittgenstein on the realm of Ineffable” (co-author M. Mallick), Philosophy Pathways: Electronic Journal (ISSN 2043 0728), Issue No.190, 2015 Published by International Society for Philosophers and distributed by the University of Sheffield.
• “Wittgenstein’s Transcendental Ethics: A response to R.C. Pradhan” (co-author M. Mallick), in  Language, Mind & Reality: A Reflection on Philosophical Thoughts of R.C. Pradhan, R.K.Panda (Ed.), New Delhi: Overseas Press, 2015.
• “What is ‘higher’ about values: A Wittgensteinian response” (co-author M. Mallick), Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research (JICPR), Vol. XXIX No: 2. 2015
•  “Wittgenstein’s view on nonsensicality of ethics” (co-author M. Mallick), Philosophia E-Journal of Philosophy and Culture, Sofia University, Bulgaria (ISSN: 1314-5606), Vol. VIII No.8, 2014.
• “Espousing Indian Epistemological Thoughts in Constructing Scientific Knowledge” in R.S.Shekhavat (ed.) Indian Philosophical Thoughts and Rationality, Jaipur: University Publisher,2014.
•  “Social Criticism and Cultural Creativity”, in Vanlalnghak and L. Lenka (eds.) Philosophy of Cultures, New Delhi: Akansha Publishing House, 2013.
• “On the Semantics of Scientific Knowledge”, Testimony and Knowledge, Amitabh Dasgupta & Ananda V. Wazalwar (Eds.). (accepted in 2011).
• “Making Sense of Metaphysical Nonsense: Investigating the Tractarian Paradox”, Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research (JICPR), Vol. XXVI, No. 4, 2009 (Published in 2011).
•  “Revisiting Popper’s Evolutionary Theory of Knowledge”, in Juraj Hvorecky and Tomas Hribek (eds.) Knowledge, Value, Evolution, Prague: Filosofia Publishers, 2011.
• “Social Construction of Scientific Knowledge: Revisiting Searlean notion of Brute and Institutional Facts”, Proceedings of the 32 International Wittgenstein Symposium, Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, Vienna, 2009.
• “End of Ordinary Language Philosophy: Reviewing Chomskyan Stance”, in K. Kumar (ed.) Chomsky Revisited, CIL, Mysore, 2009.
•  “A Discourse on Creativity in Arts” (Co-author, Surabhi Rathi), Proceedings of the Kansas conference on Arts and Humanities, 2007 
• “Faith Without Recompense: Wittgensteinian Perspective on Religious Faith”, Wittgenstein on Ethics and Religious Belief, ed. K.C.Pandey, Rawat Publication, 2007.
• “Re-ethnicizing the Minds? Cultural Revival in Contemporary Thought”, Sandhan: Journal of Centre for Studies in Civilizations, Vol VI No.2, 2007.
•  “Social Criticism through Internal and Intercultural Dialogues”, Proceedings of the 29th International Wittgenstein Symposium, Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, Vienna, 2006.
•  “Why Science Alone Cannot Unravel the Mystery of Consciousness: A Wittgensteinian Perspective”, Sandhan: Journal of Centre for Studies in Civilizations, Vol.V No.1, 2005.
•  “Vedantic Influence on Western thoughts: A Study of Wittgenstein's Philosophy”, in N.K. Jha (ed.) Contemporary World Order: a Vedic Perspective, WAVES, 2003.
•  “Dialectics of Language and Reality”, Spirituality, Science and Technology, in A. Mishra (ed.) IPC, 2001.
• “A comparative study of earlier and later Wittgenstein” Gurukula Shodh Patrika, 1996.

Book:

In Defence of Liberal-Pluralism, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle, U.K., 2009. (co-authors, C. Upendra, P.R. Bhat)

Conference Papers:

• “Ethics: a problem of philosophy or a problem of life?”, Symposium on Ethics: Theory and Practice, Department of Humanitites and Social Sciences, IIT Kanpur, March 2024
• “Language and Worldmaking: An Epistemological exploration”, Invited talk at Department of Humanitites and Social Sciences, IIT Kanpur, March 2024
• “Philosophy of Language”, invited talk as resource person for the two day workshop Department of Philosophy, SSUS, Kalady, February 2024.
• “Language and Worldmaking: A Social Perspective on Knowledge and Cognition”, International Conference on Culture, Cognition and Globalization: The Viability of Languages, IIT Patna, March 2023.
• “Two Trends in Western Epistemology of Science: Social and Evolutionary”, Madras Christian College, May 2022.
• “A Tightrope Walker: K. Satchidananda Murty on Religiosity”, National Seminar on ‘Indian Philosophy of Religion’, Utkal University, April 2022.
• “Professions in Crisis: An appraisal of Engineering Ethics” Talk deliverd at BITS Hyderabad, April 2022.
• “Paradox of Social-centric predicament: Revisiting Daya Krishna on Social Change”, Talk delivered at Daya Krishna Academic Foundation, Jaipur, December 2021
• “Social Epistemology and Evolutionary Epistemology: Appraising Science in a Social World”, IIT Kanpur, March 2021.
• “Epistemology of Development: Conflicts and Contradictions,” National Seminar on Critique of Development in Indian Context: a Philosophical Appraisal, Visva Bharati University, March 2019
•  “Social Epistemics and the Question of Recognition,” Papers presented in a session on Epistemology, 24TH World Congress of Philosophy, Beijing, China, August 2018.
• “Paradox of Peace: An Epistemological and Moral Inquiry From ‘East,’ Roundtable talk on Eastern notion of Peace,  24TH World Congress of Philosophy, Beijing, China, August 2018.
• “An evolutionary epistemological reading of Meno’s Paradox: evaluating Goldman’s critique,” Conference on Social Epistemology of Alvin Goldman,  ICPR Lucknow, February 2017.
• “Social Epistemics and the Question of Recognition,” Conference on Philosophical Praxis: Theory and Practice, University of Rajasthan, February 2016.
• “Interdisciplinarity and Research: a Social Epistemological Perspective” Workshop on Interdisciplinary Research Methodology In Memory of Professor M.P. Marathe January 2016
• “Epistemic charity and the question of authentic experience,” Seminar on “Dalit in Theory and Practice – Cracked Mirror,” ICPR, Lucknow, March 2015.
• “Epistemic Charity and the Question of Recognition,” Conference on multiculturalism, Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady, January 2015.
• “Espousing Indian Epistemological Thoughts in Constructing Scientific Knowledge,” National Conference on Indian Thoughts and Rationality, Brij University, Bharatpur, February 2014
• “Is Knowledge Socially Constructed,” Invited Lecture in Bombay Philosophical Society, University of Mumbai, October 2013.
• “A Tightrope Walker: K. Satchidananda Murty on Religiosity,” Seminar on Professor K.S. Murthy, Department of Philosophy, University of Madras, 28-30 January 2013.
•  “Revisiting Popper’s Evolutionary Theory of Knowledge,” Conference on Knowledge, Value, Evolution, Institute of Philosophy AV ČR, Prague, 2009.
• “Social Construction of Scientific Knowledge: Revisiting Searlean Notion of Brute and Institutional Facts,” International Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg, Austria, August 2009.
•  “Social Construction of Scientific Knowledge,” Language, Mind, and Social Construction, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, March 2009.
• “On the Semantics of Scientific Knowledge,” ICPR Seminar on Language & Testimony, Hyderabad Central University, Hyderabad, February 2009.
• “Ordinary Language Philosophy and its Critics,” Talk delivered at ICPR organized Refresher Course on Research Methods in Philosophy, Mumbai University, 2008
• “End of Ordinary Language Philosophy: Reviewing Chomskyan Stance,” National seminar on Noam Chomsky and the Contemporary World, Pondicherry University, 2008.
• “Language of Social Explanation: Revisiting ‘Wittgenstein on Social Science,” ICPR National seminar on Science, Society, and Self: Revisiting Debates in Philosophy of Social Sciences, University of Goa, March 2007.
• “Discourse without Metaphysics: Wittgenstein on the Every day,” ICPR National seminar on Recent trends in Metaphysics, IIT Bombay, Mumbai, February 2007.
• “Making Sense of Metaphysical Nonsense: Investigating the Tractarian Paradox,” Conference of Australasian Association of Philosophy, New Zealand Division, Victoria University of Wellington, December 2006.
• “Social Criticism through Internal and Intercultural Dialogues,” 29th International Wittgenstein Symposium, Kirchberg, Austria, August 2006.
• “Meaning of Life and the Transcendent: Eastern and Western perspective,” International Conference on Cultural and Religious Mosaic of South and Southeast Asia: Conflict and Consensus Through the Ages. South and Southeast Asian Association for the Study of Religion (SSEASR), New Delhi, 2005.
• “Social Criticism: Move Towards Social Reconstruction,”ICPR National seminar on Philosophical Foundations of Contemporary Social Movements in India, Organized by Department of Philosophy, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry, September 2005.
• “Faith Without Recompense: Wittgensteinian Perspective on Religious Faith,” ICPR National seminar on Wittgenstein on Ethics and Religious Belief organized by Dept. of Philosophy, Govt. College, Dharamshala, 28th to 30th October 2005.
• “Social Criticism and Cultural Creativity,” National Seminar on Contemporary Responses to Understanding Cultures, North Eastern Hill University, Shillong, 2005.
• “Understanding Social Criticism,” Seminar on International Philosophy Day, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Bombay in collaboration with ICPR New Delhi, Mumbai, 2005.
• “Secularism Revisited,” Seminar on Secularism, Bombay Philosophical Society & Department of Philosophy, University of Mumbai, Mumbai, 2005.
• “Vedantic Influence on the West: A Study of Wittgenstein's Philosophy,” International Seminar on Vedic wisdom and contemporary world order, World Association of Vedic Studies (WAVES) in collaboration with Pondicherry University, Pondicherry, 2004.

• Fulbright-Nehru Senior Research Fellowship, Columbia University, New York, 2010-2011.
• Departmental Award for Excellence in Teaching, IIT Bombay (2018).
• Institute Award for Excellence in Teaching,  S.P. Sukhatme Award, IIT Bombay (2020).

Postgraduate:

• Theory of Knowledge
• Philosophy of Language
• Contemporary Thinkers
• Research Methods in Social Sciences
• Philosophy of Development

Undergraduate:

• Philosophy of Science   
• Professional Ethics         
• Moral and Political Philosophy
• Introduction to Philosophy
• Environmental Studies

Administrative Responsibilities at IIT Bombay

• Convener, PGAPEC (Post Graduate Academic Performance Evaluation Committee) IIT Bombay (2021- 23)
• Member, AAC, IIT Bombay (2012-15)
• Member, DPC (Department Policy Committee), 2019-2021 and 2011-14
• Member, Department Renovation Committee (2014-18)
• M.Phil. Co-coordinator (2009)
• Seminar Coordinator (2008-09)
• Member, DPGC (2006-08)
• Member, DUGC (2004-06)

Ph.D.:

Name                          Submission         Present Position
Dr C.Upendra                       2009                 Associate Professor IIT Indore
Dr. Manoranjan Mallick      2014                Asst. Professor, Utkal University
Dr. Lalit Saraswat                2018                Assistant Professor, IIT Kanpur
Dr. Abhishek Kashyap        2020                Assistant Professo,r IIT Guwahati
Dr. Sushruth Ravish            2021                Assistant Professor, IIT Kanpur
Dr. Shonkholen Mate          2022                IPDF, IIT Bombay
Dr. Bivishan Majhi               2023                Lecturer,  Nagpur

In progress:

Name                         Year of joining
Priya Singh                         2019
Siddhant Khamkar            2021
Tarun Sharma                    2023
Deepika Chebolu               2024
Samarpit Suhane               2024