I have two broad research interests now. The first is a question of methodology, part of the philosophy of social sciences. The second is in the area of ethics.

Philosophical enterprise is about uncovering and refining the conceptual methods involved in various domains of knowledge. This is the reason why philosophy has been regarded as a second-order study. I am exploring questions of methodology in the social sciences, subsumed under the philosophy of social sciences. I am particularly interested in methodological holism as opposed to methodological individualism as an approach in the social sciences and the consequences that adherence to such a methodology results in. The two horns of the philosophical dilemma are whether the person is constituted or constructed by the collective of which she or he is a part of or is it the other way round - individuals make the collective. Adherence to one methodology brings out predictable consequences at the peril of ignoring or undermining the contesting methodological alternative. Clarity and rigour in conceptualizing methodologies can shed crucial light on the trajectory towards knowledge claims. Considering these methodologies in the political and moral realm, issues in political philosophy can be articulated more holistically.

The value domain, particularly ethics continues as my dominant research interest. I continue to work on the area of theoretical ethics with my focus now moving to a more contextual location of ethics. The primary pursuit here is to explore - interrogate and exact - ethics from the epics. The epics are an excellent source text, a civilizational reservoir that may be tapped to better understand the trajectory of moral thinking and theorizing. The other field in ethics that I am working on is the moral theorizing to undergird the inevitable role that technology and particularly Artificial Intelligence are occupying in human life. Fundamental moral notions of autonomy, responsibility and agency are being reconceptualized to account for this new, technologically loaded to overloaded paradigm of human existence.