My primary research interests gather around Kant's metaphysics and epistemology. My dissertation Matter and Motion in Kant's Philosophy of Science unpacked Kant's project in his Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science for founding a physical theory on the basis of his Critical epistemology, and evaluated Hegel's criticisms of this theory and its metaphysical underpinnings. Finding that Hegel's criticisms proceed in a positively collaborative fashion, I now seek to examine the wider notion of transcendental philosophy of a Kantian stripe active in Hegelian thought at large. While my continued interest in questions about Kantian matter theory and its Cartesian-Leibnizian heritage leads into Kant's late and posthumous writings, I also follow the Hegelian impetus to expand the Kantian conception of transcendental subjectivity such that we can properly appreciate Kantian innovations in this direction, in particular, the advances it makes over a Cartesian view of the mind with respect to the characteristics of reflexivity and spontaneity of thought. Eventually, it is this rethinking of the modern view of mind, which contextualizes Husserl's and Heidegger's efforts to overcome transcendental philosophy through phenomenology. So, here, I ask how the phenomenological critique of psychologism can develop the Kantian breach of the modern mind, how the concept of intuition and sense is configured to allow for theoretical and practical dimensions of consciousness and thinking, how theories of intentionality re-interpret the infamous faculty psychology of the scholastic and late modern variety, etc. I maintain a healthy interest in contemporary analytic work in metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of science, as they deal with consonant problems in a different register, and in the history of socio-political philosophy, which inescapably frames the philosophical explorations of these figures.
Education
Ph.D Philosophy, State University of New York (SUNY, Stony Brook), 2010
M.A. Philosophy, Delhi University, 2000
B.Sc. Honours in Chemistry, St. Stephen's College, Delhi University, 1998
