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Anil Gupta

Distinguished Professor
Department of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh
1001 Cathedral of Learning, Pittsburgh PA, 15260
agupta@pitt.edu

 

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Anil Gupta is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, professor of History and Philosophy of Science, and a fellow of the Center for Philosophy of Science. He is also a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Before joining the Pitt philosophy department in 2001, he taught at Indiana, Illinois at Chicago, and McGill. He is the author of The Logic of Common Nouns (Yale, 1980) and Empiricism and Experience (Oxford, 2006), and a co-author (with Nuel Belnap) of The Revision Theory of Truth (MIT, 1993). Gupta has received fellowships from the NEH and the ACLS, and he was a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, in 1998-99. Gupta’s main research interests lie in logic, philosophy of language, metaphysics, and epistemology. Topics that are of special interest to him include definitions, truth, meaning, and perception.