Anil K. Gupta (/ˈɡʊptə/; born 1949) is an Indian-American philosopher who works primarily in logic, epistemology, philosophy of language, and metaphysics.
[1] His most recent book, Conscious Experience: A Logical Inquiry, was published by Harvard University Press in 2019.
[9] Gupta has recently applied the informal ideas of revision theory to problems arising in the philosophy of perception.
[11][12][13] The problem Gupta addresses is that of explaining the role of experience in making our views and, in particular, perceptual judgments rational.
[16] Among other features, Gupta's empiricism does not require the acceptance of an anti-realism about commonsense and theoretical objects, and it does not rely on the analytic-synthetic distinction to do any substantive work.
Finally, Gupta argues that his reformed empiricism incorporates plausible components of both foundationalism and coherentism.
[17] In Conscious Experience: A Logical Inquiry, Gupta enriches reformed empiricism with an account of empirical dialectic.