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Research
Care in Higher Education || Undervaluation of Faculty Service

As a researcher, my explorations are guided by meaningful connections to my lived experiences.

 

During my doctoral studies, I worked on scientific metaphysics, specifically ontology development, which helped me to understand the ways in which metaphysicians respond to uncertainty inherent to scientific progress. In particular, I was excited to learn more about the relationship between metaphysics and science, including the methodological issues that arise in their interactions with each other.

 

Over the past three years of joining academia as a faculty, I have been exploring higher education from care ethics lens, where I look closely at the assumptions that underlie the traditional undervaluation of service and propose alternative care-centered frameworks to value academic labor. 

Publications

  • V Rajan, Sahana. Forthcoming. "The Hand That Rocks the Cradle: Revaluing Academic Labor and Recognizing the Centrality of Carework". Journal of Philosophy of Education.

  • V Rajan, Sahana, Andy Silveira. 2024. "Bloodstained Barcodes" Journal of Customer Behaviour. URL

  • V Rajan, Sahana. 2022. "The Paperwinner’s Model in Academia and Undervaluation of Care Work". Journal of Academic Ethics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10805-022-09460-6. 

  • V Rajan, Sahana. 2022. "Throwing the Baby Out with the Bathwater: The Dangers of Global and Local Ontologies in Scientific Metaphysics". Res Philosophica 99 (4): 403-425. https://doi.org/10.11612/resphil.2207. 

  • V Rajan, Sahana, Jayshree Jha. 2022. "Ćarvāka: A Metaphysically-Grounded Materialist Ethics". Philosophy East and West 72 (3): 801-816. https://doi.org/10.1353/pew.2022.0059.

  • V Rajan, Sahana. 2022. "A Case for Conservative Ontology Development in Scientific Metaphysics". Philosophical Inquiries 10 (1).https://doi.org/10.4454/philinq.v10i1.295.

  • V Rajan, Sahana. 2019. “Fundamentality and Conditionality of Existence”. Tattva Journal of Philosophy 11 (2):1-9. https://doi.org/10.12726/tjp.22.1.

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