Prof. Babu Thaliath is a professor in German Studies/Philosophy at Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi. He was a Visiting Scholar (Postdoc) at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at St Edmund´s College, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom and was a Research Associate at the Faculty of Theoretical Philosophy at Humboldt University Berlin, Germany. He was the director of research at Christ University, Bangalore.