Anil Gupta (philosopher) - Wikipedia Anil Gupta (philosopher) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Anil Gupta Anil Gupta Alma mater University of London (B.Sc.) University of Pittsburgh (Ph.D.) Era 20th-/21st-century philosophy Region Western philosophy School Analytic philosophy Main interests Logic Epistemology Philosophy of language Metaphysics Notable ideas Revision Theory of Truth Hypothetical given General theory of definitions Anil K. Gupta (/ˈɡʊptə/; born 1949) is an Indian-American philosopher who works primarily in logic, epistemology, philosophy of language, and metaphysics. Gupta is the Alan Ross Anderson Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh. He is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[1] His most recent book, Conscious Experience: A Logical Inquiry, was published by Harvard University Press in 2019.[2] Contents 1 Biography 2 Revision theory 3 Experience and Reformed Empiricism 4 Honors and awards 5 Select publications 6 See also 7 References 8 Further reading 9 External links Biography[edit] Gupta earned his B.Sc. with first class honours from the University of London in 1969. He then attended the University of Pittsburgh where he received his M.A. (1973) and Ph.D. (1977). Gupta has taught at several universities: McGill University (1975-1982), University of Illinois at Chicago (1982-1989), Indiana University (1989-2000).[3] In 2001 Gupta joined the Department of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh where he served as Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and, since 2013, as Alan Ross Anderson Chair.[4] Revision theory[edit] Main article: Revision theory Gupta developed an early version of the revision theory of truth.[5] Later he generalized this to a theory of circular and interdependent definitions.[6] This work was further developed, resulting in the book, The Revision Theory of Truth, co-written with Nuel Belnap. The revision theory is a semantic theory of truth that combines an unrestricted truth predicate with classical logic.[7] Revision theory takes truth to be a circular concept, defined by the Tarski biconditionals, 'A' is true if and only if A, and interprets it in a new way. Rather than interpret the truth predicate via a single extension, as is done with non-circular predicates, revision theory interprets it via a revision process. The revision process is a collection of revision sequences that result when arbitrary hypotheses concerning the interpretation of truth are revised using a rule provided by the Tarski biconditionals. In the revision process, problematic sentences such as the Liar (“this very sentence is not true”) do not settle on a definite truth value. Remarkably, however, ordinary unproblematic sentences do receive a definite truth value. If problematic types of cross-reference are eliminated from the language, then the revision process converges to a fixed point. Gupta has applied revision theory to rational choice in game theory, building on the work of André Chapuis.[8] Gupta has recently applied the informal ideas of revision theory to problems arising in the philosophy of perception.[9] Experience and Reformed Empiricism[edit] In Empiricism and Experience, Gupta proposes a novel empiricist account of the logical relation between perceptual experience and knowledge.[10][11][12] The problem Gupta addresses is that of explaining the role of experience in making our views and, in particular, perceptual judgments rational. Gupta's proposal is that the given in experience is hypothetical.[13] Rather than providing perceptual judgments with categorical rationality, experience confers on these judgments a conditional rationality. A perceptual experience, according to Gupta, makes a subject's judgment rational if the subject's antecedent view is rational.[14] An antecedent view is the collection of beliefs, conceptions, and concepts that the subject of an experience brings to bear on the experience. Gupta uses the notion of the hypothetical given to build a reformed empiricism. He argues that this empiricism has significant advantages over the traditional versions of the view.[15] Among other features, Gupta's empiricism does not require the acceptance of an anti-realism about commonsense and theoretical objects, and it does not rely on the analytic-synthetic distinction to do any substantive work. Finally, Gupta argues that his reformed empiricism incorporates plausible components of both foundationalism and coherentism.[16] Honors and awards[edit] A.C.L.S. Fellowship, 1988–89; 2003–2004 N.E.H. Fellowship for University Teachers, 1988–1989; 2003–2004; 2010 Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, 1998–1999 Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences[17] Recipient, 225th Anniversary Medallion of the University of Pittsburgh, 2013[18] Simon Lectures, University of Toronto, 2007 Whitehead Lectures, Harvard University, 2012 Select publications[edit] Modal Logic and Truth (1978). Journal of Philosophical Logic 7 (1):441–472. The Logic of Common Nouns: An Investigation in Quantified Modal Logic (1980). Yale University Press. Truth and Paradox (1982). Journal of Philosophical Logic 11: 1-60. The Meaning of Truth (1987). In Ernest Lepore (ed.), New Directions in Semantics. Academic Press 453–480. Remarks on Definitions and the Concept of Truth (1988). Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 89:227–246. The Revision Theory of Truth (written with Nuel Belnap) (1993). MIT Press.[19] Minimalism (1993). Philosophical Perspectives 7: 359–369 Empiricism and Experience (2006). Oxford University Press.[20] Equivalence, Reliability, and Convergence: Replies to McDowell, Peacocke, and Neta (2009). Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 79: 490–508. Truth, Meaning, Experience (2011). Oxford University Press.[21] An Account of Conscious Experience (2012). Analytic Philosophy 53: 1-29. The Relationship of Experience to Thought (2013). The Monist 96 (2):252-294. Conscious Experience: A Logical Inquiry (2019). Harvard University Press. See also[edit] Modal logic Revision theory Philosophical logic Philosophy of perception Truth References[edit] ^ List of the Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (PDF) ^ "Conscious Experience: A Logical Inquiry". Harvard University Press. Retrieved 22 June 2020. ^ Biographical information from Gupta's CV (PDF) ^ Gupta's profile at the University of Pittsburgh ^ Gupta (1982). ^ Gupta (1988). ^ See Gupta and Belnap (1993) for details. ^ See chapter 4 of Gupta (2011). ^ See Gupta (2006). ^ Gupta (2006) ^ Book Symposium on Empiricism and Experience ^ Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews entry on Empiricism and Experience ^ Berker (2011) ^ Gupta (2009) ^ Berker (2011) ^ Gupta (2006) ^ List of the Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (PDF) ^ List of the recipients of the 225th Anniversary Medallion of the University of Pittsburgh ^ The Revision Theory of Truth MIT Press page ^ Empiricism and Experience Oxford University Press page ^ Truth, Meaning, Experience Oxford University Press page Further reading[edit] Kapitan, T. (1984). Review of The Logic of Common Nouns: An Investigation in Quantified Modal Logic. Noûs 18: 166–173. Kremer, P. (1993). The Gupta-Belnap systems S* and S# are not axiomatisable. Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 34: 583–596. McGee, V. (1996). Review of The Revision Theory of Truth. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 56: 727–730. Antonelli, G.A. (1996). What's in a Function?. Synthese 107: 167–204. Orilia, F. (2000). Meaning and Circular Definitions. Journal of Philosophical Logic 29: 155–169. Löwe, B. & Welch, P.D. (2001). Set-Theoretic Absoluteness and the Revision Theory of Truth. Studia Logica 68: 21–41. Welch, P.D. (2001). On Gupta-Belnap Revision Theories of Truth, Kripkean Fixed Points, and the Next Stable Set. Bulletin of Symbolic Logic 7: 345–360. Kühnberger, K. et al. (2005). Comparing Inductive and Circular Definitions. Studia Logica 81: 79–98. Martínez-Fernández, J. (2007). Maximal Three-Valued Clones with the Gupta-Belnap Fixed-Point Property. Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 48: 449–472. McDowell, J. (2009). The Given in Experience: Comment on Gupta. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 79: 468–474. Peacocke, C. (2009). Perception, Content and Rationality. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 79: 475–481. Neta, R. (2009). Empiricism about Experience. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 79: 482–489. Schafer, K. (2011). The Rationalism in Anil Gupta's Empiricism and Experience. Philosophical Studies 152: 1–15. Berker, S. (2011). Gupta's Gambit. Philosophical Studies 152: 17–39. Ray, N. (2012). Ordinary Empirical Judgments and our Scientific Knowledge: An Extension of Reformed Empiricism to the Philosophy of Science Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository. Paper 580. 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