Vita
Anjan Chakravartty is the Appignani Foundation Professor of Philosophy at the University of Miami, where he works on topics in the philosophy of science, metaphysics, and epistemology. He is a Guggenheim Fellow, holding a BSc in Biophysics and an MA in Philosophy as well as an MPhil and PhD in the history and philosophy of science (from the University of Cambridge), and has taught previously at Cambridge and the Universities of Toronto and Notre Dame.
Contribution to SOCRATES
Professor Chakravartty is currently working on questions regarding how the sciences are conceived in the public domain – public understandings of science – and how they are shaped, especially in science education. These questions raise a number of issues crucial to understanding the roles of science in society, including the nature of scientific disagreement, possibilities for productive engagement between scientific and other (e.g., local and Indigenous) systems of knowledge, and the relationship of science to humanistic values.
