Babu Thaliath

Babu Thaliath is Professor of Philosophy and German Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi since 2013. He studied Civil Engineering and German Philology in India and pursued his PhD in Philosophy at the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg and at the University of Basel between 1997 and 2003. Subsequently, he completed several post-doctoral research projects in the area of Early Modern Mechanical Philosophy at the Humboldt University of Berlin and at the University of Cambridge (2005-2013). He has published extensively in the areas of Theoretical Philosophy, Early Modern Philosophy of Science, Theory of Perception and Aesthetics. He has four monographs to his credit: Perspektivierung als Modalität der Symbolisierung. Erwin Panofskys Unternehmung zur Ausweitung und Präzisierung des Symbolisierungsprozesses in der Philosophie der symbolischen Formen von Ernst Cassirer (Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2005); Natur und Struktur der Kräfte (Nature and Structure of Forces; Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2010); Wissenschaft und Kontext in der frühen Neuzeit (Science and Context in Early Modern Age; Karl Alber Verlag, Freiburg i. Br. 2016); Die Verkörperung der Sinnlichkeit (The Embodiment of Senses; Karl Alber Verlag, Freiburg i. Br. 2017)