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- Political Philosophy
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- August 2021 - May 2022 - Faculty of Ethics - NIT Trichy
- July 2022 - present - Assistant Professor-SRM AP
- Philosophy of Religion
- Ethics
- Political Philosophy
- Socio-cultural Philosophy
- Pragmatism
- Critical Thinking
- 2019- Awarded a fellowship and a grant of 700 Euros to attend “The Casablanca Seminars and workshop 2019” with the title “Tolerance in Mediterranean Societies: History, Ideas and Institutions” (July8-July20), held in Morocco, Africa.
- Vineeth Thomas, Chandana Deka, Aparajita Raja & Arsha V Sathyan 2024, "Examining the Intervention of Religion in Indian Politics Through Hindutva Under Modi Regime" In Religions, 15 (12), 1509, Doi- https://doi.org/10.3390/rel15121509
- Vineeth Thomas, Loitongbam Jaya Devi & Chandana Deka (2024), Political Influencer in Indian Democracy, Economic and Political Weekly (EPW), ISSN (Online) - 2349-8846.
- Maanvender Singh, Bikku, Aqsa Agha, Ugen Bhutia & Chandana Deka (2024). “Futuristic Cities as Marvels of Social Exclusion in India: A Case Study of Amravati” in Adam H, and Rena R. Polycrisis and Economic Development in the Global South. Routledge.
- Chandana Deka (2022) "Faith and Healing: Exploring Alternative Medicine" in Proceedings of the International Conference on Science and Philosophy in Indian Knowledge System, December 2022 Publisher: Institute for Science and Spirituality and Ministry of Education, Govt. of India.
- Chandana Deka and V. Prabhu ( 2021) "Can Capability Approach Pave the Way for Religion? A Study in the Context of Rorty’s Private/Public Sphere’s Debate" in Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, Published: 15th October, 2021, DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s40961-021-00263-5, Springer.
- Chandana Deka and V. Prabhu (2020) "Are not the new atheists dogmatic?" in Ravenshaw Journal of Philosophy, Vol. VI, pp 44-58, November, Department of Philosophy, Ravenshaw University, Cuttack ISSN: 2395-3209
- Chandana Deka and V. Prabhu (2020) “Religious Evil? A Response to Hitchens’ View on Hinduism” in Journal of East West Thoughts, Number 4, Volume 10, pp 49-56, December, International Association for East-West Studies, USA. ISSN 2161-7236, E-ISSN 2168-2259.
- V. Prabhu and Chandana Deka (2020) “Wittgensteinian Response to New Atheism” in Wittgensteinian realms of Religious Beliefs, Values and Metaphysics, Occum Academic Press, Mississauga, Ontario, pp 62-69, ISBN 9781775160762 (Hardcover)
- Chandana Deka (2020) “Can Fideism escape from ethical challenges?” in Ethical Issues: Debate and Discussions, BNit Book Builders, Guwahati, Assam, India, pp 101-114, December, ISBN 978-93-89697-08-7
- Jahnu Bharadwaj and Chandana Deka (2020) “Love, Desire and Void- Reading The Tale of Nomadic Soul” in The Wire Url: https://thewire.in/books/syed-abdul-malik-novel-aghari-atmar-kahin
- Chandana Deka (2017) “Ways of Knowing” in “Epistemology: Western Philosophy, KKHSOU Press. ISBN NO. 978-93- 87940-33-8.
- Chandana Deka (2017) “Self-Knowledge and Personal Identity” in “Epistemology: Western Philosophy, KKHSOU Press. ISBN NO. 978-93-87940-33-8.
- Conferences/Seminars/Workshops/Fdps/Fellowship Grants
- Attended the eight days training on ’NEP 2020: Orientation Sensitization Programme’ organized by UGC-MMTTC (at STRIDE), Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi from 6th - 15th January, 2025
- Attended the International workshop titled Theorizing Future Ethics of Technology: Can Morals be Determined? on 17- 18th Dec 2024, Sponsored by Society for Philosophy and Technology, Organized by BITS Pilani Goa.
- Attended the 9th International Conference on Human Values in Higher Education ( ICHVHE 2024) on 22nd to 24th November 2024, Organized by SRM IST Chennai, AICTE, and UHV Foundation
- Chandana Deka attended a two week FDP Course on Advanced Research Methodology from 26th April to 9th May, 2024 organized by TLC, Ramanujan College, Delhi University.
- Chandana Deka attended a workshop on Academic Writing and Strategic Publishing for Research from 15th Feb to 16th Feb 2024 organized by VIT Chennai.
- Chandana Deka, "The Interface between Fideism and New Atheism in the Context of Fictionalism: A Study in Asian Religious Traditions", paper presented in the Third International Society of East Asian Philosophy Conference 2023, at University of Edinburgh, UK.
- Chandana Deka, "Faith and Healing: Exploring Alternative Medicine", paper presented in the International Conference on Science and Philosophy in Indian Knowledge System, 2022, organized by the Institute for Science and Spirituality and Ministry of Education, Govt. of India.
- Awarded a fellowship and a grant of 700 Euros to attend “The Casablanca Seminars and workshop 2019” with the title “Tolerance in Mediterranean Societies: History, Ideas and Institutions” (July8-July20), held in Morocco, Africa.
- Chandana Deka, “The place of faith and reason in religion” paper presented at Indian Philosophical Congress, 2018, held in Surat, India.
- V. Prabhu and Chandana Deka, “A response to atheists’ position of religious (mis) understanding”, paper presented by Dr V Prabhu at Chang Jung Christian University, China, 2018
- Chandana Deka, Paper Title: “Atheists vs Theologians and Asian Religions”, participated at Asian Philosophy Conference, held at the Holistic Science Research Centre, Surat, India, 2018.
- Participated in ICSSR-sponsored Ten- Day Research Methodology Programme for PhD students in Social Sciences (RM 2016) held during March 14-23, 2016.
- Participated in organizing the National Level Graduate Research Meet 2015 organised by the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Guwahati during 28-30 October,2015.
- E-mail id: chandana.d@srmap.edu.in