Anjan Chakravartty

Anjan Chakravartty is an analytic philosopher who holds the position of Appignani Foundation Professor at the University of Miami. Before joining the University of Miami, he was a professor of philosophy at both the University of Notre Dame and the University of Toronto. His academic work primarily focuses on key areas within the philosophy of science, metaphysics, and epistemology. Chakravartty earned his BSc in Biophysics from the University of Toronto. Following his undergraduate studies, he dedicated three years to working with an international development project in Calcutta and participated in a United Nations World Congress on Environment and Development. He then pursued further education in philosophy, obtaining an MA from the University of Toronto. Subsequently, he spent a year working at the University of British Columbia before completing his MPhil and PhD in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge in 2001. His doctoral thesis was titled 'Semirealism: the metaphysical foundations of scientific realism', and his doctoral advisor was Peter Lipton. On July 1, 2018, he assumed the role of Appignani Foundation Chair at the University of Miami. Prior to this appointment, he served as the Director of the John J. Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values at Notre Dame and was the Editor in Chief of the journal *Studies in History and Philosophy of Science*. His notable works include 'Scientific Ontology: Integrating Naturalized Metaphysics and Voluntarist Epistemology' (2017) and 'A Metaphysics for Scientific Realism: Knowing the Unobservable' (2007), which received the Biennial Book Prize of the Canadian Philosophical Association in 2009. He has also published numerous articles on topics such as scientific realism, truth, and epistemology.