Sundar Sarukkai works primarily in the philosophy of the natural and social sciences. He has held positions of professor of philosophy at the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Founder-Director of the Manipal Centre for Philosophy and Humanities, and Visiting Faculty at the Centre for Society and Policy, Indian Institute of Science. He is the founder of Barefoot Philosophers, an initiative to take philosophy to children and the public.

 

He is the author of the following books: Translating the World: Science and Language; Philosophy of Symmetry; Indian Philosophy and Philosophy of Science; What is Science?; JRD Tata and the Ethics of Philanthropy. He has co-authored 2 books with Gopal Guru: The Cracked Mirror: An Indian Debate on Experience and Theory and Experience, Caste and the Everyday Social. His book for children titled Philosophy for Children: Thinking, Reading, Writing has been translated into Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Malayalam and Hindi. In 2022, he wrote and released The Social Life of Democracy, a response to the problems of global democracy today and extending Ambedkar's vision of social democracy. His latest publication is a novel, Following a Prayer.

 

He is the Series Editor of Routledge's Science and Technology Studies, as well as the Co-Chief Editor of the Springer Handbook of Logical Thought in India.