DR MURALI RAMACANDRAN

Associate Professor

PhD University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

Murali.Ramachandran@thapar.edu

Papers Published (Selection)

• An Alternative Translation Scheme for Counterpart Theory, Analysis 49 (1989) pp.131-41.
• A Strawsonian Objection to Russell's Theory of Descriptions, Analysis 53 (1993) pp.209-12.
• Methodological Reflections on Two Kripkean Strategies, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society XCV (1995) pp.67-81.
• Counterfactuals and Preemptive Causation (co-authors: Jonardon Ganeri and Paul Noordhof), Analysis 55 (1996) pp. 219-25.
• The Ambiguity Thesis vs. Kripke's Defence of Russell, Mind & Language 11 (1996) pp. 371- 87.
• A Counterfactual Analysis of Causation, Mind 106 (1997) pp.263-77.
• Sortal Modal Logic and Counterpart Theory, Australasian Journal of Philosophy 76 (1998) pp. 553-565.
• Indeterministic Causation and Varieties of Chance-Raising, in P. Dowe and P. Noordhof(eds.), Cause and Chance (Routledge, 2003) pp. 152-62.
• A Counterfactual Analysis of Indeterministic Causation, in J. Collins, N. Hall, L. A. Paul(eds.), Causation and Counterfactuals (MIT Press, 2004) pp. 387-402.
• Descriptions and Presuppositions: Strawson vs. Russell, South African Journal of Philosophy 27 (2008, special issue on the philosophy of P.F. Strawson) pp. 64-79.
• Anti-Luminosity: Four Unsuccessful Strategies, Australasian Journal of Philosophy 87 (2009) pp.659-73.
• The Products of Fission, Fusion, and Teletransportation -- an Occasional Identity Theorist’s Perspective, Australasian Journal of Philosophy 91 (2013) pp.105-117.
• A Neglected Response to the Paradoxes of Confirmation. South African Journal of Philosophy 36 (2017) pp. 179-85.
• Warrant, Conclusive Reason, and Failure-of-transfer-of-Warrant. Problemos94 (2018) pp. 35-48.
• Chisholm’s Modal Paradox(es) and Counterpart Theory 50 Years On. Logic and Logical Philosophy 29 (2020) pp. 571-92.