Kuruvilla Pandikattu Joseph SJ

Prof Dr Kuruvilla Pandikattu Joseph SJ (1957- ), [Pronounce] is Chair Professor of JRD Tata Foundation on Business Ethics at XLRI, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India. He is also  Professor of Philosophy at Jnan Deepa (JD), Institute of Philosophy and Theology, Pune, India, is a Jesuit priest (DUM) who pursues his research in science, religion and philosophy.

The holder of three Master's Degrees and two Doctorates (in philosophy and theology) from the University of Innsbruck, Austria, he has written extensively on topics of science, religion and philosophy. Author of more than 45 books and 216 scholarly articles, has been involved in the dialogue between science and religion and between religions.

The focus of his academic engagement has been: Issues in Philosophical Anthropology, Science-Religion Dialogue and Viable Life-Styles (TAMAS,  Laudato Si' and Fratelli tutti). He also contributes to the role of science,  technology and spirituality towards fostering a sustainable life.

Designations:

• Professor of Philosophy, Science and Religion, at JD, Pune

• Former Director, JD Centre for Science-Religion Studies

• Former Editor: Jnandeepa: Pune Journal of Religious Studies

• Former Editor: AUC: Asian Journal for Religious Studies

• Organiser of Conferences, Seminars and Workshops

• Regular Contributor to CNewsLive

Areas of specialization: 

• Dialogue as a Way of Life

• Ethics Embracing Everything/Everyone

• Life Management

• Philosophical Anthropology

• Science-Technology-Values Interaction

Email: kuru[at]xlri.ac.in |  kuru[at]kuru.in

Courses Offered:

• Philosophical Anthropology

• Science and Religion

• Philosophy of Technology

• Philosophy as Narrative

• Meaning and Mortality (Phil of Death)

• Symbol, Metaphor, Parable

• Metaphysics: Introduction

• Philosophy of Science

• Introduction to Philosophy (Ethics)

• Philosophy of Nature (Cosmology)

• Ethics and Business

Preferred Notions:

• Humans as "Between, Beneth, Before and Beyond"

• God/Self as "Ever Approachable, Never Attainable"

• Life/Love as "Useless, But Not Meaningless"

• India as "Scientifically Foreword, Religiously Inward and Economically Backward"

• All-Inclusive Ethics: Ethics Embracing Everything/Everyone

• Human Response as: "Active Denial, Passive Submission or Prophetic Acceptance"

• TAMAS (There Are Many Alternative Stories)

Main Research Areas/Interests:

• Death and After (including physical immortality and transhumanism)

• Sustainable Life  (TAMAS: "There are many alternative stories")

• Dialogue as Way of Life (science-religion dialogue and hermeneutics)

• Anthropological Issues (freedom, love, death and after death, human nature, etc.)

• Symbol, Parable, Metaphor and Myth  (Hermeneutics and more)

• Philosophy/Ethics of  Technology (Nanotechnology, Chaos Theory, Bioethics, Neurology and Neurotheology)

• Philosophy and Physics

• Ethics as the Art of Living Together

• Raising Ethical Consciousness for Viable Human Destiny