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Anil Gupta, Distinguished Professor
Logic, Philosophy of Language, Metaphysics, Epistemology
PhD, Pittsburgh, 1977
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 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.
Select Publications
"Truth and Paradox,” Journal of Philosophical Logic 11, 1982, pp. 1-60. A revised version with a brief “Postscript 1983” is reprinted in Robert L. Martin (ed.), Recent Essays on Truth and the Liar Paradox, Oxford University Press, 1984.
"Remarks on Definitions and the Concept of Truth,” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 89, 1988-89, pp. 227-246. Reprinted in Patrick Grim, Gary Mar, and Peter Williams (eds.), The Philosopher’s Annual 12, Ridgeview Publishing Company, 1991.
The Revision Theory of Truth (written with Nuel Belnap), The MIT Press, 1993.
"A Critique of Deflationism,” Philosophical Topics 21, 1993, pp. 57-81. Reprinted in Simon Blackburn and Keith Simmons (eds.), Truth, Oxford Readings in Philosophy, Oxford University Press, 1999. Also reprinted in anthologies by Michael Lynch and by Bradley Armour-Garb and J. C. Beall.
"Meaning and Misconceptions,” in Ray Jackendoff, Paul Bloom, and Karen Wynn (eds.), Language, Logic, and Concepts: Essays in
Memory of John Macnamara, The MIT Press, 1999, pp. 15-41.
"Experience and Knowledge,” in Tamar Szabó Gendler and John Hawthorne (eds.), Perceptual Experience, Oxford University Press, 2006, pp. 181-204.
Empiricism and Experience, Oxford University Press, 2006.
