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742Questioning the Body: From Technology towards a Sense of BodyKritike 5 (2): 112-122. 2011.Many attempts of contemporary philosophers to reduce ‘mind’ to ‘body’ notwithstanding, where the ‘body’ is understood in the Cartesian framework, the continental philosophers in general repeatedly remind us that body has a significance that goes beyond its materiality as a bio-chemical physical substance. In “questioning body,” we wish to take up the philosophical underpinnings of the significance of body as a framework or tool to understand ‘technology’. By doing so, we are able to see the link…Read more
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348Rethinking religious language in the age of scienceJournal of Dharma 33 (1-4): 405-411. 2008.Relation of science and religion has been at the centre of many discourses in the past as well as in the recent times. Some of these were meant to refute religious claims in the light of scientific truths about the world, while others took the pain of explaining the essential compatibility between the two. The former subjects religion to the scrutiny of science while the latter reads science in religion or religion in science.Both these attempts are ill-conceived as they conflate the logic of on…Read more
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38The Sacred and the Profane: Menstrual Flow and Religious ValuesJournal of Human Values 27 (3): 261-268. 2021.Most religious texts and practices warrant the exclusion of women from religious rituals and public spheres during the menstrual flow. This is seemingly at odds with the very idea of ‘Religion’ which binds the human beings with God without any gender and sexual discrimination. The present article attempts to problematize the ascription of negative values on menstruating women prevalent in both Hinduism and Christianity, two major world religions of the East and the West. After briefly stating th…Read more
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402Max Weber on Explanation of Human Actions: Towards a ReconstructionJournal of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research 12 (3): 21-30. 1995.Recent discussions on the explanation of action are permeated with two divergent models of explanation, namely causal model and non- causal model. For causalists the notion of explanation is intimately related to that of causation. As Davidson contends, any rudimentary explanation of an event gives its cause. More sophisticated explanations may cite a relevant law in support of a singular causal claim. The non-causalists, on the other hand, hold that when we explain an action we do not ask for t…Read more
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325Heritage of the Yoga Philosophy and Transcendental Phenomenology: The Interlocution of Knowledge and Wisdom across Two Traditions of PhilosophyIn Thomas Pius V. (ed.), Knowledge, Theorization and Rights, Salesian College Publication. pp. 72-82. 2015.Comparative philosophy has been subjected to much criticism in the latter half of the last century, though some of these criticisms were appropriate and justified. However, in our present cultural milieu, where traditions and culture transcend their geographical boundaries, seeping through the global network of views and ideas, it seems to be a legitimate enterprise to understand one’s own traditions and culture through the critical lens of the ‘other culture’. It is such cross-cultural understa…Read more
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1088Methodology of Social Sciences: Positivism, Anti-Positivism and the Phenomenological MediationIndian Journal of Social Work 67 (1): 16-31. 2006.
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915Science of Nature: Garcia de Orta as a Philosopher of ScienceIn Anabela Mendes (ed.), Garcia de Orta and Alexander von Humboldt Across the East and the West, Universidade Católica Editora. pp. 31--38. 2009.
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2277Anthropocentrism and Ecocentrism: On the Metaphysical Debate in Environmental EthicsJadavpur Journal of Philosophy 21 (2): 27-42. 2011.
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1215Making Sense of Other Culture: Phenomenological Critique of Cultural RelativismJournal of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research 25 (4): 61-74. 2010.
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364Consciousness and Society: In Defence of a Phenomenological Approach to Social RealityIn A. V. Afonso (ed.), Consciousness, society, and values, Indian Institute of Advanced Study. pp. 129-146. 2006.With the advent of Postmodernism, the recent discussions in Continental thought has called into question the philosophy of the Subject, particularly the Cartesian “cogito” and the related method of reflection. One of the important ramifications of these questioning of the reflective subject is to do with the phenomenological doctrine of intentionality of consciousness. Recently, David Carr, himself a phenomenologist, has advanced a serious objection to the phenomenological approach to social rea…Read more
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600Paradox of Method: Suresh Chandra on Social Scientific ResearchIn R. C. Pradhan (ed.), The Philosophy of Suresh Chandra, Icpr, New Delhi. pp. 270-282. 2004.
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457Husserl's Notion of Objectivity: A Phenomenological AnalysisIndian Philosophical Quarterly 25 (2): 213-226. 1998.
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651Husserl and Contemporary Philosophy of MindIn MenonSangeetha (ed.), Scientific and Philosophical Studies on Consciousness, National Institute of Advanced Studies. pp. 182-192. 1999.The idea that science explains or ought to explain every phenomenon finds Cartesian dualism of mind and body to be an unsatisfactory thesis. Consequently we have a variety of materialist theories regarding mind and consciousness. In recent times, we come across many philosophers who are committed to the scientific world picture, trying to locate mind within a world that is essentially physical.The central problems these philosophers have to tackle consist of consciousness and mental causation. I…Read more
Koshy Tharakan
Goa University
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Goa UniversityProfessor
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Social Science |
Continental Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Meta-Ethics |
Philosophy of Social Science |
Continental Philosophy |