Manoj Kumar Panda

Assistant Professor

Ph.D (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 2015)

Thesis Title- "Experience, Thought and the Space of Reason: A Study of Mind in the World"

M.Phil in Philosophy (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 2010)

Dissertation Title- "The Mind-World Relationship: A Study of the Nature of Perceptual Content"

MA in Philosophy (Utkal University, Bhubaneswar,Odisha, 2006)

Special Paper- Political Philosophy

BA in Philosophy (Dina Krushna College, Fakir Mohan University, Balesore, 2004)

My teaching interests include Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology, Philosophy of Perception, Consciousness, Phenomenology, Philosophy of Language, Analytic Philosophy and Modern Western Philosophy.

Currently I am teaching Western Epistemology(PG), Theories of Truth(PG), Phenomenology and Existentialism(PG), Social and Political Philosophy(PG), Linguistic Turn(PG), Representational Mind and Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence(PG), History of Western Epistemology and Metaphysics(UG) and Philosophy of Mind(UG).  .

Previous Teaching Experience

Guest Faculty: Kirorimal College, University of Delhi. From 28th January, 2015 to 22 April, 2015. (B.A. Programme: Propositional and Predicate Logic, and Philosophical Debates)

Teaching Assistant: Centre for Philosophy, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Philosophy of Language. Monsoon, 2010. (undergraduate Course)

Teaching Assistant: Centre for Philosophy, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Logic and Scientific Method. Winter, 2011. (undergraduate Course)

Teaching Assistant: Centre for Philosophy, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Philosophy of Language. Monsoon, 2011. (Undergraduate Course)

Teaching Assistant: Centre for Philosophy, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Logic and Scientific Method. Winter, 2012. (Undergraduate Course)

Teaching Assistant: Centre for Philosophy, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Philosophy of Language. Monsoon, 2012. (Undergraduate course)

Lifetime member of All Odisha Philosophical Association

Selected Publications

Panda, Manoj Kumar. “Nonconceptual Content of Perceptual Experience and the Possibility of Empirical Thought”, in The Limits of Thought and Beyond, Edited by Adarasupally Nataraju, Bloomsbury Publishing India, 2013. Isbn. 978-93-82951-29-2.