Conference Papers
- “Why is Rawls’s Justice As Fairness, Political not Metaphysical Irrefutable?” Paper presented at the ICPR National Conference on Current Debates in Metaphysics held from Feb 16-18 2007 in the Dept. of Humanities & Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.
- “The Simple-Complex Debate in Theorizing Social Justice: A Defense of Rawls,” Paper presented at the National Conference on Social Justice, held from 9-10 March 2007, Bombay University.
- “The Sense in Common Sense Objective Moral Knowledge,” Paper presented at the ICPR National Conference on Science, Society and Self: On the Philosophy of Social Sciences, 12-14 March 2007, Goa University.
- “The Rational and the Relative: History and Tradition in the Construction of Social Knowledge,” International Conference on Ethnographic Discourse of the Other, Department of Anthropology, University of Hyderabad, Jul 3-Jul 5, 2007.
- “Perspectivalism and Fragemnted Moral Theory: A Critical Notice,” Golden Jubilee Conference on Ethics: Theory and Application, Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, 18-20 March, 2008.
- “Living in the Endtimes: Certain Ironies”, presented at a national conference on Justice and Multiculturalism, organized by the Department of Philosophy, in ssociation the Indian Council of Philosophical Research, February 8-10, 2012.
- “Post-Secular or Secular Human !”, presented at an International Conference on “Are We Post-Secular?”, jointly organized by International Research Network on Religion and Democracy and Indian Council of World Affairs, held during 12-14 December, 2012.
- "Moral and Normative Cognition: Certain Reflections, ”, International Conference on Cognition, Emotion and Action, organized by the School of Humanities & Social Sciences, IIT Gandhinagar, 2013.
- "Return of the Repressed: On Experimental Moral Philosophy, National Conference on New Directions in Philosophy, Shree Mata Vishnao Devi University, Jammu, J&K, 2013.
- "A Critical Notice of Moral Realism, National Conference on Prospects in Ethical Theory, organized by Kerala Varma College, Trissur, Kerala, 2014.
- "Phenomenological Inter subjectivity is not a lie, is it? , National Conference organized by ICPR, Arul Anandar College, Madurai, TN, 2014.
- "The Ethical in the Cosmic!! Huxley’s Buddha, Conference on Applied Buddhist Philosophy, organized by Acharya Nagarjuna University, Andhra Pradesh, 2014.
- "The Ethical in the Social, International Conference on Bounds of Ethics in a Globalized World, jointly organized by the Christ University, Bangalore, and University of KU Leuven, Netherlands, 2014.
- "Deep Ecology: Human Alas! not all too Human, International Conference on DEEP Ecology, organized by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, BITS Goa, 2014.
- "Of Immanence, Difference and Dispersion: Comprehending Giles Deleuze, ", International Conference on Deleuze in Asia, Organized by Manipal Centre for Philosophy, Manipal Universaity, 2015.
- "Derrida - Law and Justice: Mystical or Anti-Foundational, International conference The Enigma of Law, jointly organized by The Forum on Contemporary Theory, Baroda and The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, 2015.
C. Upendra
Assistant Professor
Philosophy
cupendra[at]iiti.ac.in