Explore the concept of truth in science, scientific temper in the Indian setting, exclusionary practices in the scientific community, ethics in science and curiosity, enhancement of science education, and much more in the second instalment of the podcast’s fourth episode with Prof. Sundar Sarrukai!

Prof. Sundar Sarukkai is trained in physics and philosophy and has a PhD from Purdue University. He works primarily in the philosophy of the natural and the social sciences. He was the Founder-Director of the Manipal Centre of Philosophy and Humanities from 2010-15 and a professor of philosophy at the National Institute of Advanced Studies until 2019. Currently he is a visiting faculty at the Centre for Society and Policy, IISc Bangalore. He is also the Co-Chief Editor of the Springer Handbook of Logical Thought in India and the Series Editor for the Science and Technology Studies series, Routledge. He also founded Barefoot Philosophers.  He is the author of Translating the World: Science and Language, Philosophy of Symmetry, Indian Philosophy and Philosophy of Science, What is Science?, and two books co-authored with Gopal Guru – The Cracked Mirror: An Indian Debate on Experience and Theory and more recently, Experience, Caste and the Everyday Social. His book titled JRD Tata and the Ethics of Philanthropy was published in 2020. 

He has been actively taking philosophy to different communities and places, conducting philosophy workshops for children, and bringing philosophy to the public through his writing in the media and his initiative Barefoot Philosophers. His latest book is Philosophy for Children: Thinking, Reading and Writing, and it is being published in English, Hindi, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam and Bengali.

Host: Thrisha S.

Content Development: Thrisha S., Rahul Krishnakumar, Vatsala Nema, Vedant Bhutra

Intro/Outro Music: Subhadip Banerjee

Editing: Soham Bhar