Sundar Sarukkai ([email protected])

Sundar Sarukkai specialises in the philosophy of the natural and social sciences. He has served as the Professor of Philosophy at the National Institute of Advanced Studies. He was the Founding-Director of the Manipal Centre for Philosophy & Humanities, Manipal University, India from 2010-2015. He has also been a Visiting Faculty at the Centre for Society and Policy, Indian Institute of Science. He is the founder of Barefoot Philosophers, an initiative to take philosophy to children and the public.

He is the author of the following books: Translating the World: Science and Language; Philosophy of Symmetry; Indian Philosophy and Philosophy of Science; What is Science?; JRD Tata and the Ethics of Philanthropy. He has co-authored 2 books with Gopal Guru: The Cracked Mirror: An Indian Debate on Experience and Theory and Experience, Caste and the Everyday Social. His book for children titled Philosophy for Children: Thinking, Reading, Writing has been translated into Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam and Hindi. In 2022, he wrote and released The Social Life of Democracy, a response to the problems of global democracy today and extending Ambedkar’s vision of social democracy. He has published two novels, Following a Prayer and Water Days. His latest philosophy book released in August 2026 is Homo Philosophicus: Discovering the Spirit of Philosophy in Everyday Life.

He is the Series Editor of Routledge’s Science and Technology Studies, as well as the Co-Chief Editor of the Springer Handbook of Logical Thought in India.