What precisely is presupposed by the very idea of a research? Further, what demands do these presuppositions, consequently, pose for us? In addressing these questions, the workshop will shed some perspectival light on what 'doing' research entails, and what constitutes an object of research.

Speaker Bio:
P. G. Jung is a faculty member at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Bombay. His area of research and publications explore the historical tracing of philosophical concepts and the problems concerning philosophy of language and values. Apart from the research articles that he has authored, he is also the co-editor of 'Cultural Ontology of the Self in Pain' (Springer, 2016) and 'Teaching in Unequal Societies' (Bloomsbury, 2020). He is the co-author of 'Understanding Money: Philosophical Frameworks of Monetary Value' (Routledge, 2022). His last monograph, 'Three Formulations of Autonomy: Kant, Sade and Nietzsche' (2024), is published by the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla.

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