Dr. Sreekumar Jayadevan

Personal Information

 Name: Dr. Sreekumar Jayadevan
 Designation: Assistant Professor (Philosophy)
 Contact Number: 01881-242187
 Email:sreekumar@iitrpr.ac.in
 Address: Room 210, IIT Ropar, Nangal Road, Ropar

Areas Of Research

  • Philosophy of Science
  • Philosophical issues related to Existence, Technology, and Design
  • Formal Logic


Short Biography

Sreekumar Jayadevan is an Assistant Professor of philosophy at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, Punjab (India). He completed his master’s degree in philosophy from Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit, Kalady, Kerala in 2004. He received his M.Phil in philosophy in 2006 and PhD in philosophy in 2013 from the Department of Philosophy, University of Hyderabad. He worked as Assistant Professor of philosophy at Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, Rajasthan from 2013 to 2016. His PhD research primarily addresses the debate over scientific realism and history of science. He analyses the import of several episodes in the history of science to the thesis of scientific realism. In recent years, his research includes philosophical issues related to human existence, technology, and design.

Education

Ph.D (Philosophy), University of Hyderabad

M.Phil (Philosophy), University of Hyderabad

MA (Philosophy), Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit

Work Experience

2016-present, Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Ropar

2014-2016, Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Jodhpur

2013-2014, Assistant Professor, Center for Biologically Inspired Systems Science, IIT Jodhpur

Research

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  • Kour, Rasleen and Jayadevan, Sreekumar. (2023). To live with the artificial or to live as the artificial? The essential human and the art of life. Inscriptions, 6 (2): 7-87.  https://doi.org/10.59391/inscriptions.v6i2.207

  • Jayadevan, Sreekumar (2017) “The Invisible Opposition: Humor’s Philosophical Tale”, in Explorations in Critical Humanities, Muraleedharan, S and Devi, K (Eds). New Delhi: Viva Books. pp 139-151.
  • Jayadevan, Sreekumar (2016) ‘Being and Describing: An Entity Realist Appraisal of Internal Realism’, Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, Springer, 34(1), 151-160
  • Jayadevan, Sreekumar (2016) 'Why is Science Empirically Successful? A Response from Kuhn’s Metaphysics', Jadavpur Journal of Philosophy, Vol 25, pp 32-45.


Conference Presentations

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  1. Jayadevan, Sreekumar., ‘Scientific Realism Debate and Epistemic Indicators: An Inquiry into the Generic History of the Debate’, Dutch Society for the Philosophy of Science Triennial Conference, Philosophy of Science in a Forest (PSF 2016), Kaap Doorn, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 19-21 May 2016.
  2. Jayadevan, Sreekumar., ‘Selective Realism or Involuntary Antirealism?An Analysis of Epistemic Implications in the Scientific Realism Debate’ Nordic Network for Philosophy of Science Fourth Annual Meeting, hosted by the Department of Philosophy, University of Tartu, Estonia 21-23 April 2016.
  3. Jayadevan, Sreekumar., ‘Incongruity in Scientific Realism: A Continuum between Science and Common sense’, Science versus Common sense, held at Abraham Kuyper Center, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 25-27 February 2016.
  4. Jayadevan, Sreekumar., ‘Theory-Talk, Meta-Theory- Talk and Metaphysical-Talk: Intricacies and Pertinence of three Levels of Discourse in the Scientific Realism-Debate. CLMPS 2011, Fourteenth Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, held at Nancy, France, 19-26 July 2011.
  5. Jayadevan, Sreekumar., ‘Is 'Being' Dependent on 'Describing'? An Entity Realist Perspective on Internal realism.’ SILFS 2010, International Congress of the Italian Society for Logic and Philosophy of Science, held at University of Bergamo, Italy, 15 –17 December 2010 

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