Prof. Dr. Babu Thaliath
Address: Centre of German Studies, School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 110067, India
Tel: 0091–9910657026, 0091–(0)11–26742207
Email: babu.thaliath9@gmail.com, bthaliath@mail.jnu.ac.in, babu.thaliath@uni-konstanz.de
Current Positions
| 2022 – | Associate Researcher (Senior Fellow) at the Zukunftskolleg of the University of Konstanz, Germany. |
| 2013 – | Professor in Philosophy, Centre of German Studies, School of Language, Literature and Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. |
Positions held
| 06/2021-06/2022 | Senior Fellow at the Zukunftskolleg of the University of Konstanz, Germany. |
| 07–10/2019 | Visiting Scholar at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science and at St. Edmund‘s College, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. |
| 01/05/2016– 30/09/2016 | Fellow in International Kolleg Morphomata at the University of Cologne, Germany. |
| 2010 – 2012 | Visiting Scholar (Postdoc) at St Edmund’s College and at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom |
| 2007 – 2014 | Postdoctoral Researcher at the Faculty of Theoretical Philosophy at the Humboldt University Berlin, Germany |
| 2007 | Visiting Scholar at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom |
Education
| 2003 | Ph. D. (Philosophy), Albert–Ludwigs–University Freiburg, Germany |
| 1994 | M. A. (German Literature), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India |
| 1988 | B. Tech. (Civil Engineering), College of Engineering Trivandrum, University of Kerala, India |
Colloquia
| 1998 – 2003 | Postgraduate Colloquia (Subject: Bild und Bildlichkeit) under Prof. Dr. Gottfried Boehm at the Faculty of Art History, University of Basel. |
| 1999 – 2002 | Postgraduate Colloquia under Prof. Dr. Klaus Jacobi at the Faculty of Philosophy, Albert–Ludwigs–University, Freiburg i. Br. |
| 1999/2000 | Postgraduate Colloquium under Prof. Dr. Oswald Schwemmer and Prof. Dr. John Michael Krois at the Institute for Philosophy, Humboldt University Berlin |
Research Interests
Epistemology, History and Philosophy of Science, Early Modern Mechanical Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Aesthetics, Theory of Perception, Modern Philosophy (Descartes, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Condillac, Spinoza, Leibniz, Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Cohen, Cassirer, Brentano, Husserl, Heidegger, Lévinas, Ricoeur, Merleau–Ponty), Late Medieval Scholasticism (Thomas, Scotus, Ockham, Olivi), Film Theory
Scholarships / Fellowships / Awards
| 2023/24 | Selected for the François Chevalier Fellowship at the Madrid Institute for Advanced Study (MIAS) in Madrid, Spain. |
| 04/2023 | 2023 KAAD-Stiftung Peter Hünermann Prize, KAAD Bonn, Germany. |
| 06/2021 – 06/2022 | Senior Fellow at the Zukunftskolleg of the University of Konstanz, Germany. |
| 07–10/2019 | Visiting Scholar at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science and at St. Edmund‘s College, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. |
| 06/2019 | Visiting Faculty at the Albert–Ludwigs–University Freiburg, Germany. |
| 06/2018 | Visiting Faculty at the University of Wuppertal, Germany. |
| 01/05 – 30/09/2016 | Fellow in International Kolleg Morphomata at the University of Cologne, Germany. |
| 10/2010 | Visiting Scholar at the Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte Berlin, Germany. |
| 01/2010 – 08/2012 | Visiting Scholar at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science and at St. Edmund‘s College, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. |
| 05/06 2014 & 12/2009 – 08/2012 | Research Scholarship (Forschungsstipendium) from Gerda Henkel Stiftung, Düsseldorf, Germany, for the postdoctoral research in Cambridge/Berlin. |
| 07/2007 | Visiting Scholar at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. |
| 05 – 08/2007 | Research Scholarship from KAAD (Katholischer Akademischer Ausländer–Dienst), Bonn, Germany, for the postdoctoral research in Cambridge/Berlin. |
| 1999 – 2002 | Research Scholarship from KAAD, Bonn, Germany, for the doctoral Research (Promotion) in Freiburg i. Br., Germany. |
| 1994 | DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Scholarship for the International Summer Course at the Philipps University Marburg, Germany. |
| 1994 | Junior Research Fellowship and Eligibility for Lectureship from UGC (University Grants Commission), New Delhi, India. |
| 1983 – 1988 | National Merit Scholarship for the duration of study at the College of Engineering Trivandrum, Kerala, India. |
Current Research Projects
From Aporetics to Axiomatics. Epistemic Claims of Structural Intuitionism in Early Modern Axiomatics
The Historicity of Axioms. The historicising effect of mathematical formalism on the
axiomatisation of early modern sciences (at the Zukunftskolleg, University of Konstanz)
Knowledge and Reference. The Referentiality of Early Modern Knowledge Systems
Presentations (selected)
Intentionality and Referentiality. The problem of referentiality in Husserl’s Zeitdenken, lecture given in the Forschungskolloquium zur Bildtheorie und Phänomenologie at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany, on 31st January 2023.
Zeitlupe als Bildmotiv. Reflexionen zur Filmästhetik Andrej Tarkowskijs, presented at the Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für phänomenologische Forschung (27.-29. September 2022) on Zurück zu den Sachen selbst. Die Praxis der Beschreibungen, held at the University on Jena, Germany.
Die ikonische Retention der Zeit. Reflektionen zur Filmästhetik Andrej Tarkowskijs, lecture given at the postgraduate colloquium of the Art History Faculty, University of Konstanz, Germany, on 24th May 2022.
Dialectics of Transcendental and Embodied Self. Andrey Tarkovsky’s image motif in context, talk given at the College of Fellows, University of Tübingen, Germany, on 4th May 2022.
The Givenness of the World: The problem of directionality in modern epistemology, lecture given at the IUCSSRE Winter Research Methodology Web–Workshop organised by the Inter University Centre for Social Science Research and Extension, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, on 15th December 2021.
Nietzsche’s Ästhetisches Phänomen, paper presented at the International Conference on Aesthetics Across Cultures (17 – 20 November 2021), organised by the Centre of German Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
The Epistemic–Structural Intuition, „Jour fixe“ lecture given at the Zukunftskolleg of the University of Konstanz, Germany, on 2nd November 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxa78nLngso
Process and the “Emergence“ of Limit: Revisiting the Foundations of Infinitesimal Calculus. Lecture given in the DK Antos–Horsten seminar at the Zukunftskolleg of the University of Konstanz, Germany, on 30th April 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qg8HCbw9WFc
Biographising: a phenomenological perspective, presented at the International Conference on Unravelling lives: literary encounters and life–writing held in Department of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of Delhi (5–7 March 2020)
The leftover objects. State of objects in Andrei Tarkovsky‘s image motif, presented at the National Conference on Intersection of the Verbal and the Visual Arts (30t–31 January 2020) at the Centre of German Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
The Embodiment of ‘Other’: Memory and Identity in pre– and postwar Germany, talk given at the Cochin Film Society, Kochi, Kerala, on 14th December 2019.
Aporia of Language. The problem of the epistemic–referential access to universals and particulars, paper presented at the Goethe Society India International Conference on “The Universal and the Particular: Contemporary perspectives on an old dispute“ (14th – 16th November 2019), supported by DAAD and held at the Convention Centre, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
Are thoughts “thought“?: Autonomy of thinking, thinker and thoughts in Nietzsche, paper presented at the conference on “What is Thinking“ (4–6th November 2019) at the School of Language, Literature & Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
Freedom and the Sovereignty of Human Existence in Camus, talk given at the Conference on “The Intellectual Geography of Albert Camus“ on 3rd May 2019 at Alliance Française de Delhi.
From aporetic to apodeictic. Certainty in aporetic discourses, lecture given at the Department of Philosophy, University of Delhi, on 5th April 2019.
Participated in a SynTalk discussion on “The Many Manners Of Falling“ with Prof. Samir Mathur, Professor at the Department of Physics, The Ohio State University (OSU), Columbus, in Bombay on 24th February 2019 Ref: https://syntalk.wordpress.com/episodes/turn–five/tmmof/
Nietzsche‘s Ästhetisches Phänomen, paper presented at the International Conference on “Confronting Evil”, organised by Indian Institute of Technology Delhi at India International Centre, New Delhi (1st & 2nd March 2019), Ref: http://hss.iitd.ac.in/event/confronting–evil
Temporality and Existence. Reflections on Andrey Tarkovsky‘s Film Aesthetics, lecture given at the International Conference on “Time and Temporality in the Asian and European Modernity” (14th – 16th February 2019), organised by the Department of Germanic Studies and the Department of English Literature at EFLU, Hyderabad.
Sinnliche Erkenntnis. Die Zweideutigkeit der epistemischen Referenz – als attentio und abstractio – in Alexander G. Baumgartens Lehre von der cognitio intuitiva, lecture given at the International Conference on Neue Horizonte der Literatur– und Kulturwissenschaft: Deutsche und Indische Perspektiven, Erste Tagung des DAAD GIP Netzwerks, jointly organised by the Centre of German Studies, JNU, Deutsches Seminar der Albert–Ludwigs–Universität Freiburg, German Departments of Delhi University and Mumbai University on 18th September 2018 at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
Intentionality and Referentiality. The problem of referentiality in Husserl’s Zeitdenken, lecture given at Husserl–Archiv der Universität zu Köln on 19th June 2018.
Philosophy, Literature and Society, Lecture given at Krithi International Festival of Books & Authors 2018 (6 – 10 March) on 8th March 2018 in Cochin Kerala.
The Aporicity of the Present. On Ricœur’s thinking on time and its aporias, Lecture given at an international conference on The Present of the Day, organized by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in collaboration with Institut Français, Delhi (January 21–23, 2018).
The Historicity of Knowledge, Lecture given on 16th May 2017 at the Department of German Studies, Doon University, Dehradun.
Transcendentalism as Paradigm, Lecture given on 16th May 2017 at the Department of German Studies, Doon University, Dehradun.
The Time–Object and its intentional In–Existence. Phenomenology´s struggle with the Transcendentalism, presented on 21st April 2017 in a workshop on phenomenology at ICPR (Indian Council for Philosophical Research), New Delhi.
The residual persistence of hyle. On Husserl´s notion of the interface between consciousness and reality, presented on 21st April 2017 in a workshop on phenomenology at ICPR (Indian Council for Philosophical Research), New Delhi.
Shades of Non–Identity, presented on 31st March 2017 at the Workshop of JNU Philosophy Colloquium on Identity and Void. The Individuation of Non–Identity at School of Language, Literature & Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
Participated in a SynTalk discussion on The Limits of Mathematics with Prof. Rajesh Gopakumar, Director of the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences ((ICTSTIFR) Bangalore and Prof. Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, Universtiyof Calcutta, in Bombay on 29th October 2016. Ref: https://syntalk.wordpress.com/episodes/turn–three/tlom/
Das Faktum des Objekts, presented on 5th July 2016 at the International Conference on Besonders / Exemplarisch. Morphomatische Fallstudien zu Biographie und Portrait at the International Kolleg Morphomata at the University of Cologne, Germany. Ref. : https://www.morphomata.uni-koeln.de/en/events/jahrestagung2016/index.html
Die Phänomenologie des Biographierens. Erinnerung und Wiedererinnerung im Prozess der biographischen Rekonstruktion, presented on 9th May 2016 at the International Kolleg Morphomata at the University of Cologne, Germany. Ref.: https://www.morphomata.uni-koeln.de/en/events/babu-thaliath/index.html
Brentano and Husserl on the Intentional In–Existence of Objects, Agora Discussion on 12th March 2016 at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
The scientism of Early Modernity and the prevailing scholastic discourse on principium individuationis, presented on 26th November 2015 at the International Conference on Scientification and Scientism in the Humanities (25–26 November 2015) at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
Aporetics and Fundamental Research, presented on 15th September 2015 at the UGC–Human Resource Development Centre, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
Die ikonische Retention der Zeit. Reflexionen zur Filmästhetik Andrej Tarkowskijs, presented on 18th December 2014 at the International Conference on Komparative Ästhetik(en) (15/12 – 21/12/2014), organised by Gesellschaftfür Interkulturelle Germanistik and Department of German, University of Mumbai.
Knowledge and Reference, presented on 21st October 2014 at the Centre for Philosophy, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
Autonomy of Being. Causation as Possession, presented on 19th February 2014 at the Exploratory Workshop: Jawaharlal Nehru University – University of Zurich on Relationships of Possession: Linguistic, Literary, Philosophical and Logical Perspectives (17–19 February 2014) at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
The Referentiality of Knowledge and Knowledge Systems, presented on 3rd August 2013 at the Department of German, University of Kerala.
The Problem of Individuation in Early Modern Natural Philosophy, presented on 11th April 2013 at the Department of German, University of Kerala.
Theatre and Philosophy, presented on 21st January 2013 at Kerala Music and Drama Academy Trichur, Kerala.
“Structural Intuition” as Epistemological Foundation of Early Modern Physics, presented at the DPG–Herbstworkshop 2011 (10 – 11 September 2011) at the Technical University Munich, Germany.
The Contextual Masks, presented at the British Society for the History of Science (BSHS) Annual Conference 2011 (14 – 17 July 2011) at the University of Exeter, UK.
Nature of Spatial Intuitions in Early Modern Mechanics and Optics, presented at the third biennial conference of the society for philosophy of science in Practice (SPSP2011) at the University of Exeter, United Kingdom (22 – 24 June 2011)
Systems of Belief and Knowledge in the Early Modern Science, presented on 24th July 2010 at the British Society for the History of Science (BSHS) Annual Conference 2010 at the University of Aberdeen, UK,
“Structural Intuition” as Epistemological Foundation of Early Modern Physics, presented on 6th July 2010 at the 16th UK and European Meeting on the Foundations of Physics at the University of Aberdeen, UK, Ref.: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/ukfoundations2010/programme
Origins of Science in the Early Modern Age, presented on 16th June 2009 at National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India
Mind–Body–Dualism, the Concept of Constant Causation, presented on 7th December 2007 at Robert Bosch India Ltd (Bosch Lectures) in Bangalore, India. Temporal Differentiation, presented on 6th February 2007 at the Department of Mathematics, Christ College Bangalore, India.
Mental Causation, presented on 25th January 2007 at National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS) Bangalore, India.
Domains of Mind. Reflections on the early correspondence between Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia and René Descartes on Mind–Body–Dualism. Presented on 27th April 2006 at the National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India.
Grenzlinien des Daseins. Das Bildmotiv bei Andrej Tarkowskij. Presented at the 60. Kunsthistorischer Studierenden Kongress on Objekt der Begierde – Das Kunstwerk im Rampenlicht at the Faculty of Art History, Ruprecht–Karls–University Heidelberg (19 – 22 November 1998).
Upcoming Publications
Monographs (Books)
Die hinterlassenen Objekte. Das Bildmotiv in den Filmen Andrej Tarkowskis (Alber Verlag 2023)
Articles
Aporia of Language. The problem of the epistemic-referential access to universals and particulars (Routledge 2023).
Nietzsche’s Aesthetic Phenomenon (Routledge 2023)
Intentionality and Referentiality. The problem of referentiality in Husserl’s Zeitdenken (Springer 2023)
Publications
Monographs (Books)
Vom Aufspüren der Axiome. Die Epistemisch–Strukturelle Intuition und das moderne Wissenssystem, Verlag Karl Alber, Freiburg / Munich 2021.
Die Verkörperung der Sinnlichkeit (The Embodiment of Senses), Verlag Karl Alber, Freiburg / Munich 2017.
Wissenschaft und Kontext in der frühen Neuzeit (Science and Context in Early Modern Age), Verlag Karl Alber, Freiburg / Munich 2016.
Natur und Struktur der Kräfte (Nature and Structure of Forces), Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2010.
Perspektivierung als Modalität der Symbolisierung. Erwin Panofskys Unternehmung zur Ausweitung und Präzisierung des Symbolisierungsprozesses in der Philosophie der symbolischen Formen von Ernst Cassirer (Dissertation), Verlag Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2005.
The process of geometric-optical perspectivisation in the visual space perception (Der Prozeß der geometrisch–optischen Perspektivierung in der visuellen Raumwahrnehmung), Freidok (Freiburger Dokumentenserver), Albert–Ludwigs–University Freiburg, Freiburg i. Br. 2001.
URL: https://freidok.uni-freiburg.de/data/271
Das Individuum – Die Tragik – Der Übergang. Kulturelle Stichworte, dargestellt am Beispiel der Konstellation: König Ludwig II., Richard Wagner, Friedrich Nietzsche, Marburg 1997.
ARTICLES / PREPRINTS
Dialectics of Transcendental and Embodied Self. Andrei Tarkovsky’s image motif in context, in: Assured Self, Restive Self. Encounters with Crisis, ed. Prasanta Chakravarty, Bloomsbury India, New Delhi 2023, p. 263-287.
The Givenness of the World. The problem of directionality in modern epistemology, in: Philosophy International Journal, ISSN: 2641-9130, Volume 5, Issue 4 (15. 11. 2022),
DOI: 10.23880/phij-16000276
La extensión corporal y extra-corporal de los sentidos, in: Sophia. Colección de Filosofía de la Educación, Universidad Politécnica Salesiana Ecuador, Núm. 33 (2022), p. 113-141. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17163/soph.n33.2022.04
The leftover objects. State of objects in Andrei Tarkovsky‘s image motif, FreiDok plus, University of Freiburg, July 2020. URL: https://freidok.uni-freiburg.de/data/166598
Scientism of early modern age and the prevailing scholastic discourse on principium individuationis, in: Science and Scientification in South Asia and Europe, eds. Christoph Wulf & Axel Michaels, Routledge, New York 2020.
Lenguaje y referencia, in: Sophia. Colección de Filosofía de la Educación, Universidad Politécnica Salesiana Ecuador, Núm. 27 (2019), p. 141–146. URL: https://freidok.uni-freiburg.de/data/151258
Language and Reference, in: Sophia. Colección de Filosofía de la Educación, Universidad Politécnica Salesiana Ecuador, Núm. 27 (2019), p. 141–146. URL: https://freidok.uni-freiburg.de/data/151279
Masks, FreiDok, Alberts–Ludwigs–Universität Freiburg, Freiburg i. Br. 2019.
URL: https://freidok.uni-freiburg.de/data/16983
Die Phänomenologie des Biographierens : Erinnerung und Wiedererinnerung im Prozess der biographischen Rekonstruktion,FreiDok, Alberts–Ludwigs–Universität Freiburg, Freiburg i. Br. 2018, URL: https://freidok.uni-freiburg.de/data/16295
The contextuality of sciences, FreiDok, Alberts–Ludwigs–Universität Freiburg, Freiburg i. Br. 2018, URL: https://freidok.uni-freiburg.de/data/16428
Das Faktum des Objekts, FreiDok, Alberts–Ludwigs–Universität Freiburg, Freiburg i. Br. 2016, URL: https://freidok.uni-freiburg.de/data/16427
Die zeitliche Differenzierung, FreiDok, Alberts–Ludwigs–Universität Freiburg, Freiburg i. Br. 2013, URL: https://freidok.uni-freiburg.de/data/16605
Bild und Paradigma. Wissenschaftliche Verbildlichung als Paradigmatisierung, edoc–server of Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin 2013, URL: https://freidok.uni-freiburg.de/data/16607
Nature of Gravitation. The Structural Intuition of Gravitation in the Framework of Early Modern Mechanical Philosophy. Philosophy Study, September 2012, Vol. 2, No. 9 (595–618). also published from edoc–server of Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin 2012,
URL: https://edoc.hu-berlin.de/handle/18452/14200
URL: https://freidok.uni-freiburg.de/data/16379
Epistemologie der “strukturellen Intuition“ in der frühneuzeitlich–klassischen Himmelsmechanik, edoc–server of Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin 2012,
URL: https://edoc.hu-berlin.de/handle/18452/14182
URL: https://freidok.uni-freiburg.de/data/16646
Die Strukturelle Intuition, edoc–server of Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin 2012, URL: https://edoc.hu-berlin.de/handle/18452/14178
URL: https://freidok.uni-freiburg.de/data/16654
The Iconic Turn in Philosophy, Journal of Dharma 34, 2 (April – June 2009), p. 153–157, Dharmaram Publications, Bangalore 2009.
The Ontological Causation,Journal of Dharma 33, 1 (January – March 2008), p. 33–56, Dharmaram Publications, Bangalore 2008. Also in Freidok, Albert–Ludwigs–University Freiburg, Freiburg i. Br. 2009, URL: https://freidok.uni-freiburg.de/data/6479 and in edoc–server of Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin 2012, URL: https://edoc.hu-berlin.de/handle/18452/14175
Modi der Wirklichkeit. Die ontische Struktur der Wirklichkeit und das Problem der zureichenden Kausalität (Modes of Reality. The ontic structure of reality and the problem of sufficient causation), FreiDok, Albert–Ludwigs–University Freiburg, Freiburg i. Br. 2008.
URL: https://freidok.uni-freiburg.de/data/4936 and in edoc–server of Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin 2012, URL: https://edoc.hu-berlin.de/handle/18452/14183
Die Räumlichkeit der Empfindung (The Spatiality of Sensation), FreiDok, Albert–Ludwigs–University Freiburg, Freiburg i. Br. 2008.
URL: https://freidok.uni-freiburg.de/data/4937
Domänen des Subjekts (Domains of Mind), FreiDok, Albert–Ludwigs–University Freiburg, Freiburg i. Br. 2006.
URL: https://freidok.uni-freiburg.de/data/2660 and in edoc–server of Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin 2012, URL: https://edoc.hu-berlin.de/handle/18452/14185
Grenzlinien des Daseins : das Bildmotiv bei Andrej Tarkowskij, Freidok, Albert–Ludwigs–University Freiburg, Freiburg i. Br. 2005. URL: https://freidok.uni-freiburg.de/data/2028 and in edoc–server of Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin 2012, URL: https://edoc.hu-berlin.de/handle/18452/14184
Visual Intuition in Dynamic Structures (Visuelle Intuition in dynamischen Strukturen), Freidok, Albert–Ludwigs–University Freiburg, Freiburg i. Br. 2003. URL: https://freidok.uni-freiburg.de/data/1064
Visual Knowledge. The Mode of Geometrical Cognition (Visuelle Erkenntnis. Der Modusgeometrischer Erkenntnisse), Freidok, Albert–Ludwigs–University Freiburg, Freiburg i. Br. 2003. URL: https://freidok.uni-freiburg.de/data/1068
Language Proficiency
Mother tongue: Malayalam
Fluent: English, German, Spanish
Practical knowledge: French (B1), Hindi, Tamil
Memberships
Zukunftskolleg, University of Konstanz
British Society for the History of Science (BSHS)
Dutch Society for Philosophy of Science (NVWF)
Leonardo Da Vinci Society, London
Goethe Society of India (Vice President)
References
Prof. Dr. Klaus Jacobi, Philosophisches Seminar II, Albert–Ludwigs–Universität Freiburg, Germany
Prof. Dr. Gottfried Boehm, Kunsthistorisches Seminar der Universität Basel, Switzerland
Prof. Dr. Dominik Perler, Institut für Philosophie, Humboldt–Universität zu Berlin, Germany
Prof. Dr. Martin Kemp, Department of History of Art, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Prof. Dr. Hasok Chang, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Prof. Dr. Thomas Müller, Fachbereich Philosophie, University of Konstanz, Germany
Prof. Dr. Anil Bhatti, Center for German Studies, School of Languages, Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi, India
Prof. Dr. Sundar Sarukkai, , Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India