Curriculum Vitae - Jawaharlal Nehru University

Curriculum Vitae - Jawaharlal Nehru University

Dr. phil. Babu Thaliath
Address:
Centre of German Studies,
School of Language, Literature & Culture Studies
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 110 067
(In Germany)
Alt-Lankwitz 37, 12247 Berlin.
Mobile (in India): 0091-9910657026, (in Germany): 0049-(0)15166787086
Email: babu.thaliath@hu-berlin.de, bthaliath@mail.jnu.ac.in
babu.thaliath9@gmail.com
Homepage: www.babu-thaliath.com
Date of Birth: May 23, 1966
Gender: Male
Place of Birth: Bharananganam, Kerala, India
Nationality: Indian
Marital Status: Single
Current Positions
2013 –
Professor in German Studies/Philosophy at Jawaharlal Nehru University New
Delhi.
2010 – 2015 Visiting Scholar (Postdoc) at the Department of History and Philosophy of
Science and at St Edmund´s College, University of Cambridge, United
Kingdom.
2010 – 2015 Research Associate at the Faculty of Theoretical
Philosophy at Humboldt University Berlin, Germany.
Positions Held
2007 – 2009 Director, Centre for Research,
Christ College Bangalore, India.
2007
Visiting Scholar at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science,
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.
2005 – 2009 Lecturer/Researcher at Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram Bangalore, India.
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Education
2003
Ph. D. (Philosophy), Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany.
Title of dissertation (submitted on 17th February 2003 in Freiburg and in
Basel): „Perspektivierung als Modalität der Symbolisierung. Erwin Panofskys
Unternehmung zur Ausweitung und Präzisierung des
Symbolisierungsprozesses in der Philosophie der symbolischen Formen von
Ernst Cassirer“
Date of viva-voce: 22nd September 2003
Final Grade: magna cum laude (1. 5)
1992 – 1994 M. A. (German Literature), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
Final Grade: “A” (F.G.P.A.: 7.65)
1983 – 1988 B. Tech. (Civil Engineering), College of Engineering Trivandrum,
University of Kerala.
Final Grade: First Class
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 im Breisgau.
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
Modern Philosophy (Descartes, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Diderot, Condillac, Spinoza,
Leibniz, Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Cohen, Cassirer, Husserl, Lévinas, Merleau-Ponty),
Epistemology, Aesthetics (Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche),
History and Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Mind, Theory of Perception
Early Modern Mechanical Philosophy (Descartes, Locke, Galileo, Kepler, Newton, Hooke,
Huygens, Boyle), Late Medieval Scholastics (Scotus, Ockham)
Philosophical fundamentals of Differential Calculus
History of Science in early colonial India (16th – 18th century)
Intercultural and Transnational Communication Processes, Film Aesthetics (Eisenstein,
Bazin, Tarkovsky)
Scholarships and Fellowships
12/2009 –
08/2012
Research Scholarship (Forschungsstipendium) from Gerda Henkel Stiftung,
Düsseldorf, Germany, for the Postdoctoral Research in Cambridge/Berlin.
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05-08/2007
Research Scholarship from KAAD (Katholischer Akademischer AusländerDienst), Bonn, Germany, for the Postdoctoral Research in Berlin/Cambridge.
1999 – 2002 Research Scholarship from KAAD, Bonn, Germany, for the Doctoral Research
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, India.
Teaching Experience
2007 – 2009 Lecturer/Guide in Philosophy at Christ College Bangalore, Guest Lectures in
Philosophy of Science at Institute for Philosophy, National Institute of
Advanced Studies, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India.
2005 – 2009 Lecturer in Philosophy at Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram Bangalore, India.
1998 – 2003 Mentor/Tutor in Philosophy at Philosophisches Seminar, Alberts-LudwigsUniversität Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.
Work Experience
2007 – 2009 Director, Centre for Research at Christ College Bangalore, India
2004 – 2005 Worked as Consultant/Strategist for Holcim Ltd. Zurich for the projects in
sustainable construction in India.
2004
Project assistant at the University Library Freiburg i. Br., Germany.
1989 – 1996, Worked as Consulting Engineer and Strategist for the architectural
organizations COST FORD and ESDC in Cochin, Kerala, India.
Presentations in preparation
Aporia of Phenomenal Individuation
Phenomenal Masks
Presentations
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, India.
“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. Ref: http://www.philphys.de/files/programm-philphys-2011.pdf
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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.
Ref: http://www.bshs.org.uk/conferences/annual-conference/2011-exeter/
Nature of Spatial Intuitions in Early Modern Mechanics and Optics, presented at the Third
biennial conference of the Society for the Philosophy of Science in Practice (SPSP2011) at
the University of Exeter, United Kingdom (22 – 24 June 2011)
Ref.: http://www.genomicsnetwork.ac.uk/egenis/events/conferences/title,23552,en.html
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 (22nd – 25th
July 2010) at the University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom.
Ref.: http://www.bshs.org.uk/sites/default/files/Programme%202010v4smh.pdf
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 the National
Institute of Advanced Studies, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India.
Fundamental Research: History of Critical Thinking, Lecture Series at the Centre for
Research, Christ College Bangalore between 23rd and 27th November 2009.
Structural Methodology, Lecture Series at the Centre for Research, Christ College Bangalore
between 24th and 28th November 2008.
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
Neuro Sciences (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, 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).
Publications in preparation
Die Verkörperung der Sinnlichkeit (Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg, 2014)
Die Kontextualität der frühneuzeitlichen Wissenschaften (Königshausen & Neumann,
Würzburg, 2014)
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The Temporal Differentiation (in Philosophy Study, El Monte, CA 91731, USA, 2013)
Publications
Bild und Paradigma. Wissenschaftliche Verbildlichung als Paradigmatisierung,
URL:http://www.academia.edu/3630579/Image_and_Paradigm._Scientific_Visualization_as_Paradigmatisation
Masks, URL: http://www.academia.edu/2543564/On_Masks_
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),
URL:http://www.academia.edu/2104755/Nature_of_Gravitation._The_Structural_Intuition_of_Gravitation_in_t
he_Framework_of_Early_Modern_Mechanical_Philosophy
Epistemologie der "strukturellen Intuition" in der frühneuzeitlich-klassischen
Himmelsmechanik, edoc-server of Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin 2012, URL:
http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/docviews/abstract.php?lang=ger&id=39495
Die Strukturelle Intuition, edoc-server of Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin 2012, URL:
http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/docviews/abstract.php?lang=ger&id=39489
Natur und Struktur der Kräfte (Nature and Structure of Forces), Königshausen & Neumann,
Würzburg 2010.
The Iconic Turn in Philosophy, Journal of Dharma 34, 2 (April-June 2009), P. 153-167,
Dharmaram Publications, Bangalore, 2010.
The Ontological Causation, Journal of Dharma 33, 1 (January-March 2008), P. 33-56,
also FreiDok, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Freiburg i. Br. 2009.
URL: http://www.freidok.uni-freiburg.de/volltexte/6479/
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: http://www.freidok.uni-freiburg.de/volltexte/4936/
Die Räumlichkeit der Empfindung (The Spatiality of Sensation), FreiDok, Albert-LudwigsUniversity Freiburg, Freiburg i. Br. 2008.
URL: http://www.freidok.uni-freiburg.de/volltexte/4937/
Domänen des Subjekts (Domains of Mind), FreiDok, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg,
Freiburg i. Br. 2006.
URL: http://www.freidok.uni-freiburg.de/volltexte/2660/
Perspektivierung als Modalität der Symbolisierung. Erwin Panofskys Unternehmung zur
Ausweitung und Präzisierung des Symbolisierungsprozesses in der Philosophie der
symbolischen Formen von Ernst Cassirer (Dissertation), Königshausen & Neumann,
Würzburg 2005.
Grenzlinien des Daseins : das Bildmotiv bei Andrej Tarkowskij, Reader, Heidelberg 1999.
FreiDok, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Freiburg i. Br. 2005.
URL: http://www.freidok.uni-freiburg.de/volltexte/2028/
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Visual Intuition in Dynamic Structures (Visuelle Intuition in dynamischen Strukturen),
FreiDok, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Freiburg i. Br. 2003.
URL: http://www.freidok.uni-freiburg.de/volltexte/1064
Visual Knowledge. The Mode of Geometrical Cognition (Visuelle Erkenntnis. Der Modus
geometrischer Erkenntnisse), FreiDok, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg,
Freiburg i. Br. 2003., URL: http://www.freidok.uni-freiburg.de/volltexte/1068
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: http://www.freidok.uni-freiburg.de/volltexte/271
Das Individuum – Die Tragik – Der Übergang. Kulturelle Stichworte, dargestellt am Beispiel
der Konstellation: König Ludwig II., Richard Wagner, Friedrich Nietzsche, Marburg 1997.
Articles in preparation
The Referentiality of Knowledge and Knowledge-Systems
Aporie der phänomenalen Individuation
Das Faktum des Objekts
Memberships
British Society for the History of Science (BSHS)
Dutch Society for Philosophy of Science (NVWF)
British Society for the Philosophy of Science (BSPS)
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Philosophie
Leonardo Da Vinci Society, London
Language Proficiency
Mother tongue: Malayalam
Fluent: English and German
Practical knowledge: Hindi, French, Tamil
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References
Prof. Dr. Klaus Jacobi
Philosophisches Seminar II, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Werthmannplatz 3,
D – 79098 Freiburg i. Br.
Germany
Prof. Dr. Gottfried Boehm
Kunsthistorisches Seminar der Universität Basel, Im Laurenz-Bau, St. Alban-Graben 8,
Postfach, CH – 4010 Basel, Switzerland
Prof. Dr. Dominik Perler,
Institut für Philosophie,
Unter den Linden 6
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin,
Germany
Prof. Dr. Martin Kemp
Department of History of Art
University of Oxford,
Suite 9, Littlegate House, St Ebbe’s, Oxford, OX1 1PT, United Kingdom
Prof. Dr. Anil Bhatti
Centre of German Studies
School of Languages, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
Prof. Dr. Hasok Chang
Department of History and Philosophy of Science
University of Cambridge
Free School Lane
Cambridge CB2 3RH, United Kingdom
Prof. Dr. Sundar Sarukkai
Professor and Director
Manipal Centre for Philosophy and Humanities
Manipal University
576104 Manipal, Karnataka, India
(Formerly: Director, Centre for Philosophy
School of Humanities
National Institute of Advanced Studies
Indian Institute of Science Campus, Bangalore, India)
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