Anjan Chakravartty

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. 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] Chakravartty obtained his PhD at the University of Cambridge and previously taught at the University of Toronto.

Works

Chakravartty's book A Metaphysics for Scientific Realism: Knowing the Unobservable (Cambridge University Press) won the Biennial Book Prize of the Canadian Philosophical Association in 2009.[3] 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.

References

  1. ↑ Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
  2. ↑ Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values
  3. ↑ CPA Book Prize

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