Vikram Singh Sirola is presently working as Professor of Philosophy at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay. His teaching and research interests are in Epistemology, Analytic Ethics, and Philosophy of Science. He received his PhD in Philosophy from Jawaharlal Nehru University and is a recipient of Fulbright-Nehru Senior Research Fellowship at Columbia University New York. His recent journal publications are in the area of Social Epistemology (2019), Underdetermination in Science (2019), and Evolutionary Epistemology (2018).
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–Social Epistemology
–Moral Epistemology
–Analytic Ethics
–Philosophy of Science
–Philosophy of Social Sciences
–Ph.D. (Philosophy)Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (2001)
–M.A. (Philosophy),University of Rajasthan(1993)
–B.Sc. University Maharaja College, (1991)
–“The Plausibility and Significance of Underdetermination Arguments,” Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, SPRINGER, Vol.36 :, 2019, pp.339-356, (co-author A. Kashyap).
–“The Duhem-Quine problem for equiprobable conjuncts,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, ELSEVIER, Vol.75 :, 2019, pp.43-50, (co-author A. Kashyap).
–“Popper’s Evolutionary Therapy to Meno’s Paradox”, Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research (JICPR),SPRINGER, (co-author Lalit Saraswat)
–“Wittgenstein on the realm of Ineffable” Philosophy Pathways: Electronic Journal (ISSN 2043 0728), Issue No.190, 2017 Published by International Society for Philosophers and distributed by the University of Sheffield (co-author M. Mallick)
–“Wittgenstein on ‘nonsense’”, Indian Philosophical Quarterly (IPQ),Vol. No. 40, 2016(co-author M. Mallick)
–“Privacy of Moral Perspective” Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research (JICPR), Vol. 31 No.2, SPRINGER, New Delhi, 2015 (co-author M. Mallick)
–“Wittgenstein’s Transcendental Ethics: A response to R.C. Pradhan”, in R.K.Panda (ed.) Language, Mind & Reality: A Reflection on Philosophical Thoughts of R.C. Pradhan, New Delhi: Overseas Press, 2015 (co-author M. Mallick)
— “Ineffable Truths” Athens Journal of Humanities & Arts (ISSN: 2241-7702) published by the Research Division of Arts and Humanities of ATINER, Athens, Greece, (Forthcoming in 2016) (co-author M. Mallick)
–“What is ‘higher’ about values: A Wittgensteinian response”, Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research (JICPR), Vol. 29 No: 2 (co-author M. Mallick)
— “Wittgenstein’s view on nonsensicality of ethics” Philosophia E-Journal of Philosophy and Culture(ISSN: 1314-5606), Vol. VIII No.8, 2014, Sofia University, Bulgaria (co-author M. Mallick)
–“Espousing Indian Epistemological Thoughts in Constructing Scientific Knowledge” in R.S.Shekhavat (ed.) Indian Philosophical Thoughts and Rationality, Jaipur: University Publisher, 2014.
— “Social Criticism and Cultural Creativity”,in Vanlalnghak and L. Lenka (eds.) Philosophy of Cultures, New Delhi: AkanshaPublishing House, 2013.
— “Nature and Construction of Scientific Knowledge”, Language and Social Construction in Vikram Singh Sirola & Ranjan Kumar Panda (eds.) (forthcoming from Routledge) (accepted in 2011).
–“On the Semantics of Scientific Knowledge”, Testimony and Knowledge, Amitabh Dasgupta & Ananda V. Wazalwar (Eds.), University of Hyderabad, 2011.
–“Making Sense of Metaphysical Nonsense: Investigating the Tractarian Paradox”, Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, Vol. XXVI, No. 4, 2009 (Published in 2011).
–“Revisiting Popper’s Evolutionary Theory of Knowledge”, in JurajHvorecky and Tomas Hribek (eds.) Knowledge, Value, Evolution, Prague: Filosofia Publishers, 2011.
–“Social Construction of Scientific Knowledge: Revisiting Searlean notion of Brute and Institutional Facts”, Proceedings of the 32 International Wittgenstein Symposium, Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, Vienna, 2009.
–“End of Ordinary Language Philosophy: Reviewing Chomskyan Stance”, in K. Kumar (ed.) Chomsky Revisited, CIL, Mysore, 2009.
— “A Discourse on Creativity in Arts”, Proceedings of the Kansas conference on Arts and Humanities, 2007 (Co-author, Surabhi Rathi).
–“Faith Without Recompense: Wittgensteinian Perspective on Religious Faith”, Wittgenstein on Ethics and Religious Belief, ed. K.C.Pandey, Rawat Publication, 2007.
–“Re-ethnicizing the Minds? Cultural Revival in Contemporary Thought”, Sandhan: Journal of Centre for Stuedies in CivilizationsVol VI No.2, 2007.
–“Social Criticism through Internal and Intercultural Dialogues”, Proceedings of the 29th International Wittgenstein Symposium, Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, Vienna, 2006.
–“Why Science Alone Cannot Unravel the Mystery of Consciousness: A Wittgensteinian Perspective”, Sandhan: Journal of Centre for Stuedies in Civilizations, Vol.V No.1, 2005.
–“Vedantic Influence on Western thoughts: A Study of Wittgenstein’s Philosophy”, in N.K. Jha(ed.) Contemporary World Order: a Vedic Perspective, WAVES, 2003.
–“Dialectics of Language and Reality”, Spirituality, Science and Technology, in A. Mishra (ed.) IPC, 2001.
–“A comparative study of earlier and later Wittgenstein” GurukulaShodhPatrika, 1996.
POSTGRADUATE:
–Western Philosophy and the Advent of Modern Science
–Philosophy of Language
–Contemporary Thinkers in Western Philosophy
–Theory of Knowledge
–Research Methods in Social Sciences
–Philosophy of Development
GRADUATE:
–Philosophy of Science
–Professional Ethics
–Moral and Political Philosophy
–Introduction to Philosophy
–Environmental Studies
–Fulbright-Nehru Senior Research Fellowship (2010-11)
–Departmental Award for Excellence in Teaching, IIT Bombay (2018)
–S.P. Sukhatme Award for Excellence in Teaching, IIT Bombay(2020)
–Member, Post Graduate Academic Performance Evaluation Committee (PGAPEC) IIT Bombay (2020- present)
–Member, AAC, IIT Bombay (2012-15)
