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Babu Thaliath

Professor

Centre/School/Special Centre

Centre of German Studies,

School of Language Literature and Culture Studies

Off. Phone

011-26742207

Residence

09910657026

bthaliath@mail.jnu.ac.in, babu.thaliath9@gmail.com

Personal Webpage

https://babuthaliath.com/

Qualifications

2003 Ph. D. (Philosophy), Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany.
1992 - 1994 M. A. (German Literature), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
1983 - 1988 B. Tech. (Civil Engineering), College of Engineering Trivandrum, University of Kerala.

Areas of Interest/Specialization

* Modern Philosophy (Descartes, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Condillac, Spinoza, Leibniz, Kant, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Cohen, Cassirer, Husserl, Lévinas, Merleau-Ponty, Ricoeur), Epistemology, Aesthetics
* History and Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Mind, Theory of Perception
* Early Modern Mechanical Philosophy (Descartes, Locke, Galileo, Kepler, Newton, Hooke, Huygens, Boyle), Medieval Scholastics (Cusanus, Scotus, Ockham)
* Philosophical fundamentals of Differential Calculus
* History of Science in early colonial India (16th – 18th century)
* Intercultural and Transnational Communication Processes, Film Aesthetics

Experience

2005 - 2015 Associate Researcher at Institut für Philosophie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
2010 - 2012 Visiting Scholar at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.
2007 - 2009 Director, Centre for Research, Christ College Bangalore, India.
2005 - 2009 Lecturer/Researcher at Dharmaram Vidya Kshetram Bangalore, India.

Awards & Honours

06/07 2014, 12/2009 - 08/2012 Research Scholarship (Forschungsstipendium) from Gerda Henkel Stiftung, Düsseldorf, Germany, for the Research in Cambridge/Berlin.
05-08/2007 Research Scholarship from KAAD (Katholischer Akademischer Ausländer-Dienst), Bonn, Germany, for the 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.

International Collaboration/Consultancy

Research Projects (Postdoc):
Natur und Struktur der Kräfte (2005 - 2010) with Institute for Philosophy, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
Die Kontextualität der frühneuzeitlichen Wissenschaften (2010 - 2012) with Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, UK
Erkenntnis und Referenz. Die Referenzialität der Erkenntnis und Erkenntnissysteme (2015 - ) with Department of Philosophy, University of Konstanz, Germany.

Best Peer Reviewed Publications

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).
Natur und Struktur der Kräfte (Nature and Structure of Forces), Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2010.
The Ontological Causation, Journal of Dharma 33, 1 (January-March 2008), P. 33-56,FreiDok, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Freiburg i. Br. 2009.
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.