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A.V. Ravishankar Sarma
PhD (IIT Mumbai)
Associate Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Research Interest
Belief Revision, Causality, Scientific Theory Change
Office
Faculty Building: FB- 659,
Department of HUmanities and Social Sciences
Education
PhD, Philosophy, IIT Mumbai, 2006On Causal and COnstructive Modeling of Belief RevisionProf. G. SIvakumar, Prof. Ramasubramaniam, Prof. Amitabha Gupta
M.A., Philosophy, University of Hyderabad, 1998
M.Sc., Physics, Kakatiya University, Warangal, 1996
Teaching Area
Selected Publications
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.
Conference Papers:Role of causal knowledge in Belief revision, Contributory talks on Third summer school on"causality, uncertainty and Ignorance, Konstanz, Germany, 2004.
Conference Papers:On Causal Epistemic Ranking of beliefs, Degrees of belief DOB-2004 , Uni-Konstanz, Germany, 2004
Conference Papers: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
Conference Papers:Causal Relevance in Belief revision-1, First World Congress and school on Universal Logic,Montreux, Switzerland, 2005
Conference Papers:On some Philosophical Implications of Nagarjuna's theory of causality, UGC National Seminar on BUddhist applied Philosophy, Nagarjuna University, 2014
Conference Papers: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
Working Papers:Role of Abductive Reasoning in Belief Revision.
Working Papers:Role of Abductive reasoning in the scientific Discoverey: A case study of History and Philosophy of Science
Awards & Fellowships
Post doctoral fellow, IIM Bangalore, February 2006- September 30 2006
GLoRiClass fellow, ILLC, Amsterdam, October - December 2006
Post doctoral fellow, HBCSE, TIFR, February-May 2007