PROFILE

SHORT BIOGRAPHY

My fascination with traditional and critical ideas in philosophy and logic has, and continues to, define my major life choices. I held a visiting scholar position at the University of Canterbury for six months. I received the Khyentse Foundation’s Buddhist Studies Scholarship. During my Ph.D. studies I served as the New Zealand representative at the Australasian Association of Philosophy (Postgraduate Committee) from 2018 to 2020.

In 2021, I have completed my doctoral dissertation on an ancient form of Eastern reasoning called 'catuskoti' at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. As part of the MSc in Mathematical Logic and Theory of Computation that I attained from the University of Manchester in 2009, I completed a thesis: 'Indian Logic: A Contemporary Perspective'. This involved a modern formalization for Navya-Nyāya, based on Gangeśopādhyāya’s (the most prominent Naiyāyika logician) theory of inference.  As with any logical calculus, Navya-Nyāya consists of formal syntax and semantics. In the thesis, I defined a concept of semantic consequence based on Gangeśa’s theory of pervasion, and hence, of syntactical consequence. In June 2007, I completed a BA with Honours degree in Philosophy and Social Sciences at the University of Manchester. My dissertation, 'The Predicament of Deductive Logic', investigated the problem of justifying deductive logical systems.

 

Recently I have published a book titled Colonization of Indian Art and S. M. Sultan, exploring the impact colonisation had on post sixteenth-century Indian art and philosophical discussions around the effects.

 

 

 

 

 

RESEARCH INTEREST

Philosophy of Logic, Mathematical Logic, Indian Logic, Indian Philosophy, Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Decolonization

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