Professor Sundar Sarukkai works primarily in the philosophy of the natural and the social sciences. He is the founder of Barefoot Philosophers (www.barefootphilosophers.org) and is currently a Visiting Faculty at the Centre for Society and Policy, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. He is the author of
Translating the World: Science and Language,
Philosophy of Symmetry,
Indian Philosophy and Philosophy of Science,
What is Science?,
JRD Tata and the Ethics of Philanthropy 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 latest book is
Philosophy for Children: Thinking, Reading, Writing and it is published in English, Hindi, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam and Bengali. He is the Series Editor for the
Science and Technology Studies Series, Routledge. Sarukkai was a professor at the National Institute of Advanced Studies until 2019 and was the Founder-Director of the Manipal Centre for Philosophy and Humanities from 2010-2015.
Professor Mihir Kumar Chakraborty is currently Visiting Professor, School of Cognitive Science, Jadavpur University, India and Adjunct Professor, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi (IIIT-Delhi). He was formerly Professor at Department of Pure Mathematics, University of Calcutta, India; Visiting Professor, Indian Institute of Engineering Science & Technology, Shibpur, India; Visiting Professor, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India; Guest Professor, Chongqing South West University, China; and Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata (IISER, Kolkata), Kalyani, West Bengal, India. His research interests are non-standard logics, fuzzy set theory and fuzzy logic, rough set theory and logics of rough sets, paraconsistent logics, foundations of mathematics, mathematics and culture, logic of diagrams, functional analysis, topology and knowledge representation. He has widely toured various countries on academic visits and co-authored and edited several books in both English and Bengali. One of the founders of Calcutta Logic Circle (CLC) and Association of Logic in India (ALI), he has also been awarded fellowships by Indian Institute of Advanced Studies (IIAS), Shimla; West Bengal Academy of Science and Tech. (WAST); Indian Council of Philosophical Research (ICPR); and International Rough Set Society (IRSS).
