School of Humanities
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.
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Phenomenology of Body
COVID 19 has resulted in the constraining of bodily freedom as the 'new normal' demands that we should restrict our bodily movements in public spaces. This has also resulted in the impoverishment of the subjective life as phenomenology defines the subjectivity in terms of 'lived experience'. According to phenomenology, the body is not something which is added on the experience; rather it is the very condition of the experience. The body gives us perspective on the world and we interpret the world in terms of the embodied possibilities.
Literature as Pedagogy-Insights from Indian Aesthetics
According to Indian (predominantly Sanskrit) aestheticians, the twofold aim of all literature is to provide an experience of aesthetic bliss (rasa) and impart knowledge (vyutpatti). However, it is the former that has received greater scholarly attention than the latter. The educational aspect of literature has been relegated to a secondary position, sometimes with disdain, even by traditional scholars. In this talk,
"Why do we think the problem of consciousness is ‘hard’?"
The places of the mind in relation to the body is a problem that has
garnered philosophical interest across traditions. In contemporary philosophy, this
problem has taken the form of the following question, which the philosopher David
Chalmers called the ‘hard’ problem of consciousness: Why at all are certain physical
states/processes accompanied by conscious experiences? Currently, there is no
consensus on a solution to this problem. In recent years, Chalmers has raised a
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Workshop on 3D Landscapes
This workshop is for Master/PhD students, researchers and practitioners (in the fields of archaeology, history, art-history and conservation architecture) will be conducted during March 21 to 25, 2022, at NIAS. The programme will have lectures, demos and hands-on sessions by experts. The topics covered in the workshop are remote sensing and GIS for archaeology, space stereoscopy, photogrammetry, 3D modelling of landscapes and architectural structures. Dr. M.B.Rajani is the Co-ordinator of this Programme.