Faculty
Dr. Ravi Chakraborty
Program Director, MA in English ( Creative Writing)
Department of Language & Literature
Dr Ravi Chakraborty is a philosopher interested in restoring philosophy's role in uniting the arts and the sciences.. After a master's in literature at the University of Delhi and a bachelor's in mechanical engineering from IIT Kanpur, Dr Ravi finished his doctoral thesis at IIT Delhi on the philosophical implications of applying mathematical ideas to study literary form. As a founding member of the School of Liberal Arts, he has attempted to further a transdisciplinary worldview through the creation of courses like the Art of Argument, the Story of Mathematics and Great Ideas across Ages.
The same eclectic spirit is central to the creative writing program that he now directs, where he believes that creative writing cannot restrict itself to literary fiction but also critically embrace domains like content creation and science writing. It is this ethos that is reflected in Cosmopolis, the official channel of the school of liberal arts that he maintains.
- Ravi Sekhar Chakraborty and Clement Lion (University of Lille).(2020).Two Convergences to Dynamic Formalism. Bakhtin and Brouwer. Springer Dialog. https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030614379
- Ravi Sekhar Chakraborty. (2020).The Spectre of Self Organization: Will Algorithms Guide us Towards Truth. Volume on Algorithmic Culture Edited by Stefka Hristova and Jennifer Slacks. Lexington Books https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781793635730/Algorithmic-Culture-How-Big-Data-and-Artificial-Intelligence-Are-Transforming-Everyday-Life
Selected Presentations
- "Decoloniality as disruption without axioms". Conference on Disruption. TU Dresden. December 6. 2023
- "Geometry in a world of rituals". 31st Novembertagung. Mathematical Academy of the Serbian Institute of Sciences and Arts. Belgrade. November 13. 2024.
- “Statistics as Technology: On the Influence of Cybernetics on Planning in India”. Annual Conference of the Society of Philosophy of Technology. June 29. 2021 (Online)
- “Only Mathematics is Mathematical”. Mathematical and Numerical Inspirations in Philosophy Conference at Department of Philosophy. Stanford University. April 1, 2020. (Online)
- “What does a Mathematical Philosophy look like: Notes from Catastrophe Theory”. Invited Talk at the Mathematics Seminar Series. Department of Mathematics. IIIT Delhi. February 24.2020
- "The Reversal as a Catastrophe: On the Substrate-Neutrality of Narrative Morphology”. International Conference on Narrative. New Orleans. March 5.2020
- “Is Mathematics as a Model Discipline?”. International Conference on Disciplinarity in a Digital Age, IIT Delhi. January 11.2019
