ALIGARH, April 17 -- Prof. Carlin Romano, Professor of Media Theory and Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania, USA, urged the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) faculty members and students to avoid being swayed by the ideological assertions of any single professor or school of thought, and instead engage in wide and critical reading across the pragmatic tradition to develop their own independent synthesis-one that aligns with neither the left nor the right but is based on thoughtful exploration.

He was delivering a University Extension Lecture on the theme "Rorty's Revolution", organized by the Department of Philosophy, AMU in the Lounge, Faculty of Arts.

A Fulbright-Nehru Fellow and former research assistant to the eminent America...