• Fundamental Reflections on Minds and Machines
    In Sangeetha Menon, Saurabh Todariya & Tilak Agerwala (eds.), AI, Consciousness and The New Humanism: Fundamental Reflections on Minds and Machines, Springer Nature Singapore. pp. 1-9. 2024.
    We live in a complex world, and the complexity exists not just in degree but in diversity that is pluralistically rich and spectral.
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    The World as Affordances: Phenomenology and Embeddedness in Heidegger and AI
    In Sangeetha Menon, Saurabh Todariya & Tilak Agerwala (eds.), AI, Consciousness and The New Humanism: Fundamental Reflections on Minds and Machines, Springer Nature Singapore. pp. 307-317. 2024.
    The philosophical discourses on AI have profound impact on the traditional philosophical notions such as human intelligence, mind-world relationship, and the good-life. The new terminologies like “Posthumanism”, “Transhumanism”, and “Cyborg” have been problematizing the notion of the ‘human’ itself as it is being claimed by a few that the arrival of AI would finally erase the boundaries between humans and machines. Posthuman philosophers argue that the ‘end of humanism’ started by the postmodern…Read more
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    Emotions and Mahābhārata: A Phenomenological Study of Yudhiṣṭhira’s Grief in Śānti Parva
    Journal of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research 41 (1): 93-102. 2024.
    The complexity and fluidity of emotions in the epic of Mahābhārata present before us an interesting case for delving into the phenomenology of emotions. In the rationalist tradition of Kant, emotions are considered as an impediment to moral discernment. The rationalist account of emotions considers it as an animal instinct which needs to be controlled through the exercise of Reason. The paper problematizes the rationalist interpretation of emotions mainly on two counts. First, it ignores the eva…Read more
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    Embodiment and Disorientation: A Phenomenological Analysis of Work from Home During COVID-19
    with Neha Aggarwal and Kriti Trehan
    Human Studies 1-15. forthcoming.
    Working from home (WFH) is a new reality and norm in today’s work culture. COVID-induced lockdown introduced the concept of WFH for many people. Blurring home and workplace boundaries was a prominent cause of disorientation in people’s lives. Hence, WFH becomes a significant phenomenon to explore as it raises the fundamental question of body and space in shaping people’s experiences. To study this, the researchers designed a phenomenological inquiry and examined the lived phenomenon of WFH durin…Read more
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    Aesthetic Delight and Beauty: A Comparison of Kant’s Aesthetics and Abhinavagupta’s Theory of Rasa
    with Sangeetha Menon and Shankar Rajaraman
    Journal of Dharma Studies 5 (1): 51-62. 2022.
    The study aims to address the existing research gap through a thematic comparison between the aesthetics of Kant and Abhinavagupta. This paper explores Kant’s notion of aesthetic judgment based on disinterestedness with Abhinavagupta’s analysis of sādhāraṇīkaraṇa. We argue that the notions of “disinterested judgment” in Kant and sādhāraṇīkaraṇa in Abhinavagupta points towards the impersonal nature of aesthetic delight which makes the universality of aesthetic experience possible. Hence, aestheti…Read more
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    Synthesis and Transcendental Ego: A Comparison of Kant and Husserl
    Journal of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research 37 (2): 265-277. 2020.
    The paper deals with the notion of synthesis and transcendental ego in Kant and Husserl. It will argue that the actual difference between Kant and Husserl’s notion of transcendental ego can be understood through their conception of time. Kant accepts transcendental ego as the kind of logical necessity for synthesizing the various temporal units which provides unity to the consciousness. However, Husserl discards the necessity of transcendental ego by giving the phenomenological interpretation of…Read more
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    The Problem of Lived Experience in The Cracked Mirror
    Journal of the Indian Council of Philosophical Research 35 (2): 305-314. 2018.
    The paper argues that the problem of ‘lived experience’ in The Cracked Mirror cannot be grasped phenomenologically but through the Derridian notion of supplement. The notion of supplement problematizes the coherence of phenomenological ego and makes it fractured and delayed. The Cracked Mirror therefore poses the ethical problem in representing the otherness of dalit experience for theoretical purpose. Present paper would try to resolve the problem of representation in The Cracked Mirror through…Read more
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    This paper will explore ‘Heidegger’s controversy,’ which has perplexed the scholars for a long time. We need to see whether we can distinguish Heidegger, ‘the philosopher’ from Heidegger ‘the Nazi.’ I would like to suggest that the notion of Geschistlichkeit in Being and Time shows the intimate connections between the fundamental ontology of Dasein and Heidegger’s sympathy for National Socialism. The paper will argue that the analysis of ‘authentic historicality’ in Being and Times shows the lin…Read more