Dr. Shruti Krishna Bhat

Assistant Professor

Ph.D in Philosophy, from Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi on the topic “Pleasure and Pain: An Indian Philosophical Perspective”.

Work experience: Worked as a Research Associate in IIT, Bombay department of Philosophy

Papers Published

• Bhat, S. K. (2023). A path of liberation that fetches prosperity: Juxtaposing the Sakta view of bhukti-mukti and the philosophy of action-liberation. The Journal of Indology and South Asian Studies (ZIS), Heidelberg. 40 170-194.
• Bhandari, M. & Bhat, S. K. & Dhital, V. (2023). On Perceptibility of Motion: An Inquiry from Indian Philosophical Traditions. Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities. 15(3).
• Shukla, R. & Bhat, S. K. (2022). Recollection and Non-recollection: A study of novelty, independence and validity of cognition through the analysis of recollection in Indian philosophy. Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, New Delhi. 39 249-262.
• Bhat, S. K. (2022). Is deep sleep a pleasure or an absence of pain? An epistemic analysis of susupti in Indian philosophy. Shabdarnava Pune.15(4) 263-266.
• Bhat, S. K. (2021). Epistemology of Sukha in the Nyaya School of Indian Philosophy. Journal of Veda Sanskrit Academy, Karnataka. 18(2) 272-277.

Book Published:

• Bhat, S. K. (2015). Sruti–laya. Hubli: Sahitya Prakashana, ISBN: 978-93-94559-40-0

Awards and Recognition

• DAAD Research Scholarship, South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg, Germany, 2022
• DAAD Research Scholarship, South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg, Germany, 2023
• ICPR Research Fellowship, 2018
• Gold Medal. M.A. philosophy (highest number of gold medals in the history of the department) Mysore University, 2014

Project

• NPTEL-Swayamprabha project on ‘Vyaptipañcaka Rahasya, Prathama laksana’ (Sanskrit) with Dr Nirmalya Guha, IIT (BHU), for the Swayamprabha portal, Government of India

Seminars and presentations

International

• Doctoral thesis presentation. Students’ seminar. Institute of the history of culture and spirits of Asia, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, July 2022
• Cognitive and affective model in Advaita Vedanta. Annual students’ colloquium. South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, June 2022
• Cognitive and affective model in Advaita Vedanta. Annual students’ colloquium. South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, May 2022
• Conducted text reading sessions during the workshop on ‘Patañjala Yogasutra: A multiple reading’. India-Europe Foundation for New Dialogues, Zagarolo, Italy

National

• Doctoral thesis seminar. Indian Council of Philosophical Research, Lucknow, 2019
• Panel discussion. Lead beyond Boundaries in the two-day symposium on ‘Women in Engineering: Technology Development and Community Outreach’. Ramaiah Institute of Technology, Bangalore, 2019
• Seminar organised by Indian Knowledge System, IIT, Varanasi: Paper on ‘Paramanuvada: Studying the arguments of Vaisesika on atomic theory’. IIT (BHU), February, 2023
• Mind Brain and Consciousness Conference, IIT, Mandi: Paper on ‘Is deep sleep conscious?: Indian Philosophical Perspective on Consciousness in susupti, December 2023