V Kaushika Draavid

Research Scholar

V Kaushika Draavid

Office Phone : +91-512-2597632

Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

Guide: Dr Prashant B Bagad

Research Topic

I began with an interest in a notion of the human self that is richer than the one proposed by Descartes and other rationalists (the self as rational mind), and more consonant with our irrefutable experience of being embodied, social, relational, evolving, plural beings in the setting of a world. Upon this background, I study the human self and existence as it emerges in the dialectics between embodiment and social formation.

Education

2013- : PhD in Philosophy, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur
2010-12: MA in Philosophy, University of Pune, Pune
2009-10: BEd, Vasanta College for Women, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi
2004-07: BA (Hons) in Philosophy, Sir Parashurambhau College, Pune

Website(s)

Homepage

CV

+ - Selected Publications Click to collapse

+ - Awards & Fellowships Click to collapse

2012: Junior Research Fellowship, University Grants Commission

+ - Link for video Click to collapse

+ - Additional information Click to collapse

I endeavour to exist in a mode of critical openness to a wide variety of ideas, activities and experiences. I like to explore philosophical and non-philosophical literature relating to different dimensions of life. I enjoy films, poetry, writing, photography, travel, cultural practices and, occasionally, the company of other humans.

+ - Contact Information Click to collapse

Office/Lab
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
Kanpur 208 016,India

Office Phone Nos: +91-512-2597632

Email: draavid@iitk.ac.in

+ - Keywords Click to collapse

philosophy of self, body, embodiment, social self, being-in-the-world, phenomenology, feminist theory of self, Cartesianism