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Humanities

Dean: Prof Sangeetha Menon

The School of Humanities is engaged in research in the broad areas of philosophy, psychology, literature, fine arts, and culture. Research in the School currently focuses on philosophical foundations of sciences; cognitive sciences; scientific and philosophical studies of consciousness; Indian psychology and philosophy; history and philosophy of biology; archaeometalurgy and analysis of ancient metals; and translations of literary classics in Kannada into English.

OPPORTUNITY

Post-doctoral Fellow Position (Philosophy in Action)(Last Date to Apply: 30 June 2018) New!

Aditi Kathpalia	B. V. Sreekantan	Ekta Gupta
Krupa Rajangam	Kuili Suganya	M.B.Rajani
Malavika Kapur	Meera Kumar	Naresh Keerthi
Niharika Sharma	Nitesh. S. Anchan	Nithin Nagaraj
S. Ranganathan	S. Settar	Samiksha Bajpai
Sangeetha Menon	Shankar R	Sharada Srinivasan
Shatarupa Bhata...	Siddharth S	Sisir Roy
Smriti Haricharan	Srikumar M. Menon	Sumithra Sunder
Sundar Sarukkai	Varun S Bhatta	Venkatesh K.N.
Vijayashree C S	VK Deepa Nambiar

Current Programmes

Past Programme

Kapur, M., 2019. CTET Preparation and Practice: Child Development and Pedagogy (Papers I & II), New Delhi: Oxford University Press. Available at: https://india.oup.com/product/ctet-preparation-and-practice-child-development-and-pedagogy-9780199486786?.
Sarukkai, S., 2019. Book Review of "The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies". , 116(3). Available at: https://www.currentscience.ac.in/Volumes/116/03/0488.pdf.
J, S.Kiran Redd et al., 2019. The ‘Self’ Aspects: the Sense of the Existence, Identification, and Location. Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, pp.1-21. Available at: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12124-019-9476-8#citeas.
Suganya, K. & Rajani, M.B., 2019. Underground Water Supply System in the late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Bangalore. Water History, pp.1-21. Available at: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12685-018-0223-8.
J, S.Kiran Redd & Roy, S., 2019. The Difference in Traditional and Contemporary Meditative Pathways. Prabuddha Bharat.
J, S.Kiran Redd & Roy, S., 2019. The Role of One’s Motive in Meditation Practices and Prosociality. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 13.
Sarukkai, S., 2018. IraNdu thanthaiyar (NadagangaL) Translated by Srinivasa Ramanujam , Chennai: Maatru Veliyeetagam.
Settar, S., 2018. Prakruta Jagadvalaya: convergence of Prakrit, Kannada and Sanskrit languages, Bengaluru: Abhinava. Available at: https://www.sapnaonline.com/books/prakruta-jagadvalaya-settar-s-1234096862-5551234096864?position=1&searchString=prakruta%20jagadvalaya.
Kapur, M., 2018. What's the Hurry? Let Children be Children, New Delhi: Vitasta Publishing Pvt. Ltd. Available at: https://www.amazon.in/Whats-Hurry-Let-Children-Children/dp/9386473305/ref=sr_1_2/260-5084081-4272248?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1534398046&sr=1-2&refinements=p_27%3AMalavika+Kapur.
Kapur, M., 2018. Childcare in the Indigenous Health Systems in India from the Perspectives of Developmental and Health Psychology. In Psychosocial Interventions for Health and Well-Being. Psychosocial Interventions for Health and Well-Being. Springer, pp. 125-136. Available at: https://www.springer.com/in/book/9788132237808.
Menon, S.M., 2018. Megaliths: New perspectives for future studies. In Beyond stones and more stones. Beyond stones and more stones. Bengaluru: Mythic Society, pp. 208-256.
Chippali, M. & Sarukkai, S., 2018. Conceptual Priority of Translation over Language. In A Multilingual Nation: Translation and Language Dynamic in India. A Multilingual Nation: Translation and Language Dynamic in India. New Delhi: OUP, pp. 309-324. Available at: https://india.oup.com/product/a-multilingual-nation-9780199478774.
Sarukkai, S., 2018. Ekalavya and the Possibility of Learning. In Exploring Agency in the Mahabharata: Ethical and Political Dimensions of Dharma. Exploring Agency in the Mahabharata: Ethical and Political Dimensions of Dharma. Routledge India, pp. 179-194. Available at: https://www.routledge.com/Exploring-Agency-in-the-Mahabharata-Ethical-and-Political-Dimensions-of/Bhattacharya-Dalmiya-Mukherji/p/book/9781138709201.
Roy, S., 2018. Quantum Entanglement and the Philosophy of Relations: Jaina Perspective. In Jain Philosophy: a scientific approach to reality. Jain Philosophy: a scientific approach to reality. Ladnun: Bhagawan Mahavira International Research Center.
Rajani, M.B. & Das, S., 2018. Archaeological Remains at Nalanda: A Spatial Comparison of Nineteenth Century Observations and the Protected World Heritage Site. In Records, Recoveries, Remnants and Inter-Asian Interconnections: Decoding Cultural Heritage. Records, Recoveries, Remnants and Inter-Asian Interconnections: Decoding Cultural Heritage. Singapore: ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute. Available at: https://bookshop.iseas.edu.sg/publication/2305.

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