The philosophy of mind and language, of race and racism, and of literature and culture; ethics (including the role of experiment); honour; idealisation and ideals; social identity; African and African-American intellectual history
Elected 2024
Modern political theory, Indian constitutional law and Indian intellectual history; current projects include "Constitutionalism in Modern India" and ideas of "God and Religion in Modern Indian Intellectual History"
Philosophy, especially of self, consciousness, attention, the epistemology of inquiry, the idea of philosophy as a practice; Indian philosophical traditions; the intellectual history of early modern South Asia; the polycentricity of modernity; cosmopoli
Ancient Philosophy, especially Plato, Aristotle, Stoicism. Kant. Moral philosophy, especially its history