A V Ravishankar Sarma

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Email: avrs[AT]iitk.ac.in

Office Phone: 0512-259-6137

Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

Specialization

Logic (formal and Philosophical), Formal Epistemology, Philosophy of Science

Research Interest

Belief Revision, Causality, Scientific Theory Change

Education

PhD, Philosophy, IIT Mumbai, 2006
On Causal and COnstructive Modeling of Belief Revision
Prof. G. SIvakumar, Prof. Ramasubramaniam, Prof. Amitabha Gupta
M.A., Philosophy, University of Hyderabad, 1998
M.Sc., Physics, Kakatiya University, Warangal, 1996

Logic Philosophy of Science

Some problems concerning semantics of causal counterfactuals, in the proceedings of Workshopon conditionals, information and Implication (WoCoii-2002), Hagen, Germany, pp 157--169,2002
Belief revision and semantics of counterfactuals, in the proceedings of Workshop on conditionals, information and Implication (WoCoii-2002), Hagen, Germany, pp 170{182, 2002
Causality and the dynamics of Belief, in the proceedings of International conference on Cognitive science(ICCS04), 2004

Conference Papers:

On causal relevance in Belief change, student sessions at First Indian conference on Logic and its applications to other disciplines (FICS05), IIT Bombay, Mumbai, 2005.
Role of causal knowledge in Belief revision, Contributory talks on Third summer school on"causality, uncertainty and Ignorance, Konstanz, Germany, 2004.
On Causal Epistemic Ranking of beliefs, Degrees of belief DOB-2004 , Uni-Konstanz, Germany, 2004
On an explanatory driven belief revision system, in the sixth European Congress for AnalyticalPhilosophy (ECAP 6), Volume of abstracts, pp 105, published by Jagillonian University press,Poland, 2008
Causal Relevance in Belief revision-1, First World Congress and school on Universal Logic,Montreux, Switzerland, 2005
On some Philosophical Implications of Nagarjuna's theory of causality, UGC National Seminar on BUddhist applied Philosophy, Nagarjuna University, 2014
Counterfactuals in common sense reasoning: A logical Approach, National seminar on New Challenges and Avenues in Philosophy, SMVDU, Jammu, 2014

Working Papers:

In defence of Scientific Realism: a Structuralist approach
Role of Abductive Reasoning in Belief Revision.
Role of Abductive reasoning in the scientific Discoverey: A case study of History and Philosophy of Science

Office

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