JOLLY THOMAS

PhD in Philosophy (University of Hyderabad)

CONTACT DETAILS

Address: Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT-Dharwad, Dharwad-580011, Karnataka.

email:  joliethomas@iitdh.ac.in

                     AREA/S OF SPECIALISATION

Metaphysics, Philosophical Logic

AREA OF CURRENT RESEARCH

Ethics of Artificial Intelligence

AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS

1.      Bimal Krishna Matilal Logic Prize-2018 under the aegis of World Congress of Universal Logic (Awarded at Vichy, France)

https://www.uni-log.org/logic-prize-india-2018

2.      Gold Medal for the First Rank in MA (2008) (University of Hyderabad)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1.      Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology-Dharwad, Since December 2018.

2.      Visiting Assistant Professor, International Institute of Information Technology- Hyderabad, December 2016–December 2018.

  PUBLICATIONS

1.      Thomas, J. 2023. “On the Criteria of the Imitation for the Artificial Intelligent Systems in the Moral Imitation Game.” Theoria. (Forthcoming)           (Wiley)

https://doi.org/10.1111/theo.12502 

2.      -------- with Lalaram Arya, Mubarak Hussain & Prasanna SRM. 2023. “Speech Act Theory and Ethics of Speech Processing as Distinct Stages: the ethics of collecting, contextualizing and the releasing of (speech) data.” IEEE International Symposium on Ethics in Engineering, Science, and Technology (Ethics), West Lafayette, USA, 2023, pp. 1-10.                      (IEEE Xplore)

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10154932

3.      --------. 2022. “Unleashing the Nature of the Paradox of Nonexistence.” Journal of Indian Council for Philosophical Research 39 (3): 263-278. 2022. (Springer)

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40961-023-00289-x#citeas

4.      --------. 2020. “Quine’s Criterion of Ontological Commitments and Quine’s Naturalism.” Indian Philosophical Quarterly 46 (1): 36-56.

5.      --------. 2019. “Resolving Scheffler’s and Chomsky’s Problems on Quine’s Criterion of Ontological Commitment.” Journal of Indian Council for Philosophical Research 36 (2): 229-245. (Springer)

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40961-019-00174-6

6.      --------. 2018. “Developing Metalogic to Formalize Ontological Disputes of the Systems in Metaphysics by Introducing the Notion of Functionally Isomorphic Quantifiers.” Logica Universalis 12 (3-4): 461-492. (Springer)

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11787-018-0213-8#

7.      --------. 2017. “An Analysis of the Notions of Conceivability and Possibility.” Indian Philosophical Quarterly 44 (2): 165-178.

8.      --------. 2016. “Conceivability, World and Epistemic Background.” Indian Philosophical Quarterly 37 (1): 57-73.

 COURSES TAUGHT

1.      Applied Ethics (Spring, IIT Dharwad)

2.      Philosophy (Autumn, IIT Dharwad)

3.      Ethics (Autumn, IIIT Hyderabad)

4.      Introduction to Philosophy (Autumn, IIIT Hyderabad)

5.      Critical Thinking (Spring, IIIT Hyderabad)

 PROJECT DETAILS

1.   Exponential Ethical Affairs Concerning Autonomous Vehicles and Code of Ethics for Data Acquisition, Technology Innovation Hub (TIH) of IIT Hyderabad in the area of “Autonomous Navigation and Data Acquisition systems” (DST, Funded through NM-ICPS scheme)