About the Talk: This talk will explore how and why we need to
think about a concept called aesthetics. Rather than working with specific
thinkers, we will explore how the concept of aesthetics arises and the kind of
intellectual vocabulary one needs to understand it. So it will focus more on
foundational themes that support the notion of aesthetics.
About the Speaker: Sundar Sarukkai is currently Professor of
philosophy at the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore. He was the
Founding-Director of the Manipal Centre for Philosophy & Humanities,
Manipal University, India from 2010-2015. He is the author of the following
books: Translating the World: Science and Language, Philosophy of Symmetry,
Indian Philosophy and Philosophy of Science, What is Science? and The Cracked
Mirror: An Indian Debate on Experience and Theory (co-authored with Gopal
Guru). He is an Editorial Advisory Board member of the Leonardo Book Series on
science and art, published by MIT Press, the Series Editor for Science and
Technology Studies, Routledge and the Chief Editor of the Springer Handbook of
Logical Thought in India. Sarukkai is trained in physics and philosophy, and
has a PhD from Purdue University, USA. His research interests include
philosophy of science and mathematics, phenomenology and philosophy of language
and art, drawing on both Indian and Western philosophical traditions. He has
been a Homi Bhabha Fellow, Fellow of the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies
at Shimla and PHISPC Associate Fellow.
