Anjan Chakravartty

Anjan Chakravartty
Education University of Cambridge (Ph.D.)
Era Contemporary philosophy
Region Western philosophy
School Analytic
Institutions University of Toronto, University of Notre Dame
Thesis  (2001)
Doctoral students Evan Claudeanos
Mousa Mohammadian
Curtis Forbes
Xavi Lanao Camara
Isaac Record
Boaz Miller
Kaave Lajevardi
Main interests
 Philosophy of science, metaphysics, epistemology
Notable ideas
 Semirealism
Website https://anjanchakravartty.com/

Anjan Chakravartty is an analytic philosopher and a professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. His work focuses on topics in the philosophy of science, metaphysics, and epistemology.

Life

He received his BSc in Biophysics and MA in philosophy from the University of Toronto. Chakravartty obtained his PhD at the University of Cambridge and previously taught at the University of Toronto. He is the Director of the John J. Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values at Notre Dame, and the Editor in Chief of the journal Studies in History and Philosophy of Science.[1][2] From July 1, 2018, he will be Appignani Foundation Chair at University of Miami.[3]

Works

Chakravartty's book A Metaphysics for Scientific Realism: Knowing the Unobservable (Cambridge University Press) puts forward the concept of semirealism. The book won the Biennial Book Prize of the Canadian Philosophical Association in 2009.[4]

He has edited collections entitled Ancient Skepticism, Voluntarism, and Science, and Explanation, Inference, Testimony, and Truth, in memory of his former doctoral supervisor Peter Lipton, Hans Rausing Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
  2. ↑ Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values
  3. ↑ "The Appignani Chair". Anjan Chakravartty. 8 January 2018. Retrieved 29 March 2018.
  4. ↑ CPA Book Prize
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