Shruti

Dr Shruti is an Assistant professor of Philosophy in Thapar School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala,Punjab. Dr Shruti has been trained in Nyāyaśāstra and Advaitaśāstra in the paramparāgata method. She completed her PhD from Banaras Hindu University, under the guidance of Prof. Rajaram Shukla, a well-known Naiyāyika of the country. Her PhD research ‘Sukha-Duḥkha: Pleasure and Pain from an Indian Philosophical Perspective’ focused on compiling the discussions, concepts and arguments about the nature of pleasure and pain from the original basic texts of Nyāya-Vaiśeṣika, Sānkhya-Yoga and Advaita Vedānta. She is also well versed in the Western epistemology, logic, philosophy of mind, metaphysics etc. She has worked in research projects in Heidelberg University and also worked as a Research Associate in IIT Bombay, Sanskrit Cell. Her area of interest is Indian Logic (Nyāya) and Epistemology, Western Logic, Analytic Philosophy, Philosophy of mind, Cognitive Science, Advaita Vedānta. Some publications to mention: ‘I Don’t Know’: An Epistemic Analysis of First-Personal Ignorance in Journal of Indian Philosophy; A path of liberation that fetches prosperity: Juxtaposing the Śākta view of bhukti-mukti and the philosophy of action-liberation in The Journal of Indology and South Asian Studies (ZIS), Heidelberg.