Thinking About Your Thinking: An Epistemological Journey

  • DATE

    22 August 2018

  • TIME

    15:00 - 17:30

  • VENUE

    GovInn Lounge, Old College House

Whilst pursuing a career in medicine in India and the US, Dr Subodh Pandit simultaneously went on a personal journey to determine what truth is. He set out to answer the question: does God really exist? Dr Pandit submits that the epistemic pursuit is not just a matter of finding the correct answers but asking the correct questions. Methodology matters. The researcher must constantly reflect on, question, review and scrutinize her methods and her positionality.

Whilst pursuing a career in medicine in India and the US, Dr Subodh Pandit simultaneously went on a personal journey to determine what truth is. He set out to answer the question: does God really exist? His search became an exercise in comparative religion leading him to juxtapose theories in the natural sciences, metaphysics and philosophy. Such an endeavour necessarily required him to confront difficult methodological questions in research design. His twenty-year intellectual journey culminated in two book sets, Come Search With Me Book 1: Does God really exist? and Come Search With Me Book 2: The weight of evidence. Dr Pandit submits that the epistemic pursuit is not just a matter of finding the correct answers but asking the correct questions. Methodology matters. The researcher must constantly reflect on, question, review and scrutinise her methods and her positionality. 

Dr Pandit completed his medical schooling and a residency in General Internal Medicine at the prestigious CMC Hospital, Vellore. He was, for some time, Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Oklahoma. At present, he is a licensed, board certified Internist practicing Emergency Medicine in North Carolina. He is an international speaker and has presented at universities including Harvard, MIT, Wisconsin, Georgia Tech, Michigan Tech, UC Davis and the University of Florida.

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