Research
Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Critical Thinking, Philosophy of Logic, Indian Philosophy
Positions Held
San Jose State University
Anand Vaidya
Visiting Professor
Area of Interest: Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Logic and Indian Philosophy
E-mail: avaidya@humnet.ucla.edu
Office: Dodd 355
I graduated from UCLA in 1998. I studied logic, language, metaphysics, Kant and Wittgenstein. I then went on to UCSB to study epistemology and philosophy of mind, writing a dissertation on knowledge of possiblity and necessity via two-dimensional modal logic. Since my graduation I have expanded my research out to the cross-cultural and multi-disciplinary study of mind and epistemology. I now do work in Indian philosophy as well as the philosophy of artificial intelligence and teach courses in business ethics and critical thinking.