was, until 2019, a professor of philosophy at the National Institute of Advanced Studies. He was also the Founder-Director of the Manipal Centre for Philosophy and Humanities. His work is primarily in the philosophy of natural and social sciences. He is the author of the following books: Translating the World: Science and Language (Lanham: University Press of America, 2002); Philosophy of Symmetry (Shimia: Indian Institute of Advanced Study, 2004); Indian Philosophy and Philosophy of Science (New Delhi: Project of History of Indian Science, Philosophy and Culture, Centre for Studies in Civilizations, 2005); What is Science? (New Delhi: National Book Trust, India, 2012) and two books co-authored with Gopal Guru: The Cracked Mirror: An Indian Debate on Experience and Theory (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2012) and most recently Experience, Caste and the Everyday Social (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2019) and JRD Tata and the Ethics of Philanthropy (London: Taylor & Francis, 2020). He has also been active in outreach programs to take philosophy to different communities and places, including philosophy workshops for children, and that bring philosophy to the public, through his writing in the media and his initiative Barefoot Philosophers.