PhD (Thesis Submitted) – 2026

UGC (JRF) NET – 2002

MA (Philosophy) – 2001

BSc (Hons.) Mathematics – 1999

Assistant Professor (2013 – Present). Redesignated from 2007.

Lecturer (2007–2013).

Associate Head, School of Philosophy & Culture (2025- Present)

Coordinator, School Examination Committee, (2025 – Present)

Faculty Coordinator, Vikalp (2017-2019, 2021 – Present)

Nodal Officer, Ek Bharat Shrestha Bharat (2021 – Present)

Head, School of Philosophy & Culture (2021-24)

Program Officer, National Service Scheme (2016 – 2021)

President, Board of Cultural Activities (2017 – 2021)

Faculty Coordinator, Unnat Bharat Abhiyaan (2017 – 2021)

In-charge Sports (2007 – 2013)

Doctoral Dissertation on “Paradigms of Traditional and Modern Syllogistic: A Diagrammatic Study” at the School of Philosophy & Culture, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University Katra, J&K, India. (2017-2026)

Senior Research Fellowship for “Syllogistic Reasoning: A Philosophical Study of Diagrammatic Approaches” at the Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, U.P, India (2005-2007)

Junior Research Fellowship for “Syllogistic Reasoning: A Philosophical Study of Diagrammatic Approaches” at the Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, U.P, India (2003-2005)

Introduction to Philosophy of Science – Lesson Plan

Human Rights – Lesson Plan

Critical Thinking and Reasoning – Lesson Plan

Issues in Gandhian Thought – Lesson Plan

Published

1. 1. Tiwari, Satish Kumar, Shailendra Kumar Singh, and Sumanta Sarathi Sharma. (2026). “From Tales to Transformation: A Pañcatantra-Inspired Action Learning Framework for Holistic Student Development.” Action Learning: Research and Practice.
      DOI: 10.1080/14767333.2026.2675931.

   2. Sharma, Sumanta Sarathi, and Ravi Kumar. (2026). “Ecthesis and Demonstration: Re-evaluating Aristotle’s Method of Syllogistic Proof.” Studia Gilsoniana, 15(2), 297–320.
      DOI: 10.26385/SG.150210.

   3. Sharma, Sumanta Sarathi. (2026). “Ecthesis in Aristotle’s Logic: Textual Analysis and Historical Development.” Orbis Idearum: European Journal of the History of Ideas, 14(1), 33–48.
      DOI: 10.26106/t26n-rr02.

   4. Sharma, Sumanta Sarathi, and Satish Kumar Tiwari. (2026). “Syllogistic Reasoning in the Age of AI.” Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 20(56), 279–296.
      DOI: 10.22034/jpiut.2026.71974.4469.

   5. Sharma, Sumanta Sarathi, and Rama Shanker Misra. (2011). “The Classical Notion of Soundness in Deductive Logic.” Avant Plus: Numer Specjalny Zlot Filozoficzny, 166–178.

   6. Sharma, Sumanta Sarathi. (2009). “Categorical Syllogisms and Their Validity with the Help of Diagrams.” Notes on Engineering Research and Development (NERD), 27–29.

Forthcoming 

7. Sharma, Sumanta Sarathi, and Satish Kumar Tiwari. (—-). “Mapping Intellectual Genealogy in Semiotics: Investigating Indian Analogues of Peirce’s Icon, Index, and Symbol in Classical Philosophy.” Journal of Philosophical Investigations. Article in Press.
DOI: 10.22034/jpiut.2026.71621.4448.

1. Sharma, Sumanta Sarathi, and Varun Kumar Paliwal. (2023). “Algorithms for Syllogistic Using RMMR.” In Proceedings of International Conference on Data Science and Applications, Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, Vol. 552, pp. 885–900. Springer, Singapore.
   DOI: 10.1007/978-981-19-6634-7_64.
2. Sharma, Sumanta Sarathi. (2022). “Incommensurability and Inapplicability of the Squares of Opposition.” In Jean-Yves Beziau and Ioannis Vandoulakis (eds.), The Exoteric Square of Opposition: The Sixth World Congress on the Square of Opposition, Studies in Universal Logic, pp. 89–107. Birkhäuser, Cham.
   DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-90823-2_4.
3. Sharma, Sumanta Sarathi. (2022). “The Notion of Diagrammatic Isomorphism in Venn-Peirce Diagrams.” In Diagrammatic Representation and Inference: Diagrams 2022, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 13462, pp. 321–328. Springer, Cham.
   DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-15146-0_27.
4. Sharma, Sumanta Sarathi. (2018). “Depicting the Redundancy of Fourth Figure Using Venn-Peirce Framework.” In Diagrammatic Representation and Inference: Diagrams 2018, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 10871, pp. 689–696. Springer, Cham.
   DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-91376-6_61.
5. Sharma, Sumanta Sarathi. (2014). “Perfect Syllogisms and the Method of Minimal Representation.” CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 1132, pp. 17–22.
6. Sharma, Sumanta Sarathi. (2014). “Incommensurability of the Squares.” In Jean-Yves Béziau and Katarzyna Krzywoszyńska (eds.), Handbook of the Fourth World Congress on the Square of Opposition, pp. 103–114, Vatican.
7. Sharma, Sumanta Sarathi. (2008). “Method of Minimal Representation: An Alternative Diagrammatic Technique to Test the Validity of Categorical Syllogisms.” In Diagrammatic Representation and Inference: Diagrams 2008, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 5223, pp. 412–414. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg.
   DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-87730-1_51.

1. Sharma, Sumanta Sarathi. (2012). “Interpreting Squares of Opposition with the Help of Diagrams.” In Jean-Yves Béziau and Gillman Payette (eds.), The Square of Opposition: A General Framework for Cognition, pp. 175–194. Bern: Peter Lang.

• Guest lecture, “Logic in Everyday Life,” at the Bhopal School of Social Sciences, Bhopal — 16 January 2026.

• Special Lecture on “Universal Human Values,” AMET University, Chennai, during the Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat–Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav Student Exchange Programme, 23–27 January 2023.

• Expert lecture, “Critical Thinking and Correct Reasoning,” workshop on Logic and Language, Bhopal School of Social Sciences, Bhopal — 16 December 2022.

• Invited lectures on “Soft Skills,” including a session on psychological mapping, self-understanding and compassion in modern policing, Sher-E-Kashmir Police Academy, Udhampur — 26–30 July 2021.

• Invited talk, “Can there be an Inverted Square?”, 3rd World Logic Day (online) — 14 January 2021.

• Invited talk, “On Ethics and Mind: A Philosophical Enquiry,” workshop on Mind and Ethics, IIT Jammu — 1–3 December 2019.

• Plenary talk, “Social Cause, Responsibilities and the NSS,” NSS Induction Programme, IIT Jammu — 21 September 2019.

• Special lecture, “The Ethics of Food Habits and Table Manners in India,” Dwor Giemzow, Giemzow, Lodz, Poland — 19 June 2017.

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Panelist, “How Does Philosophy Matter?”, World Philosophy Day, SMVDU — 22 November 2019.

• Paper, “Applying Ockham’s Razor to (In)valid Syllogisms Using Venn-Peirce Framework,” 2nd International Workshop on the Philosophy of Notation, University of Bologna, Italy — 22–24 May 2019.

• Paper, “The Incommensurability of Squares,” Sixth World Congress on the Square of Opposition, Orthodox Academy of Crete, Greece — 1–5 November 2018.

• Technical-session speaker, World Philosophy Day seminar on “Philosophy, Science and Technology,” SMVDU — 2 December 2016.

• Paper, “Ecthesis in Aristotle’s Syllogistic,” The Philosopher’s Rally, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland — July 2015.

• Paper, “Peoples’ Perception of Disaster Management in Shimla,” with Gayatri Raina, Kamayani Bisht and Namita Khagte, Himachal Pradesh University — June 2015.

• Paper, “Corporate Negligence, Developing Nations and the Bhopal Gas Tragedy: Some Observations,” Special Summer School on Disaster Management, Himachal Pradesh University — May 2015.

• Talk, “Thought Process in Inference,” World Philosophy Day seminar, SMVDU — 28 November 2014.

• Paper, “On Aristotle’s Methods for Assertoric Syllogisms,” National Seminar on New Avenues and Challenges in Philosophy, SMVDU — March 2014.

• Paper, “Religious Intolerance, Group Rights and the Indian Democracy,” national seminar on The Notion of Religion in Contemporary Indian Philosophy, Government Hamidia Arts and Commerce College, Bhopal — January 2014.

• Paper, “Perfect Syllogisms and the Method of Minimal Representation,” International Workshop on Diagram, Logic and Cognition, Jadavpur University, Kolkata — October 2013.

• Paper, “The Diagrammatic Testing of Categorical Syllogism,” Zlot Filozoficzny, University of Gdansk, Poland — June 2012.

• Talk on the relationship between “Religion and Human Rights Violations,” World Philosophy Day, SMVDU — 17 December 2011.

• Paper, “The Notion of Soundness in Deductive Logic,” Zlot Filozoficzny, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland — June 2011.

• Paper, “Unified Diagrams for Testing the Validity of Categorical Syllogisms,” Sixth European Congress on Analytic Philosophy, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland — August 2008.

• Paper, “Interpreting Squares of Opposition with the Help of Diagrams,” First World Congress on the Square of Opposition, Montreux, Switzerland — June 2007.

Chair, Subject Expert, Resource Person and Academic Service Roles

• Session Chair, Philosophy and Sociology, and Expert, Philosophy Track, International Conference on Multidisciplinary Research Perspectives (ICMRP:23), Bhopal School of Social Sciences — 16–17 February 2023.

• Program Committee member, Philosophy of Diagrams track, 13th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams (Diagrams 2022).

• Session Chair / Subject Expert, “Ethics, Society and Multilinguism,” UGC-sponsored National Conference on “Socio-Economic & Political Issues in Contemporary India – An Interdisciplinary Discourse,” Bhopal School of Social Sciences — 2020.

• Initiated the discussion on Aristotle at SMVDU’s World Philosophy Day programme — 19 November 2020.

• Resource Person, Ten-Day Workshop on Indian Constitution, Department of Philosophy & Culture, SMVDU — 16–25 January 2017.

Award of Honour presented to NSS Unit, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University on World Blood Donor Day, June 14, 2019.