Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Moral epistemology, metaethics, normative ethics, social epistemology, political philosophy
Office
Room No. 579, Faculty Building
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur - 208016
PhD (IIT Bombay)
Thesis: Naturalizing Moral Epistemology: A Methodological Investigation
MA (SP Pune University)
BE (The National Institute of Engineering, Mysore)
Ravish, S. (forthcoming) Social Moral Epistemology: A Methodological Framework for Moral Education. Proceedings of The Moral Training and Education Workshop. Ravenshaw University and IIT Bhubaneshwar
Ravish, S. (2017). Bentham’s Panopticon and Foucault’s Panopticism. Indian Philosophical Quarterly, 43(1-4), pp.135-151
Ravish, S. and Sharma, R. (2025) Tracking the Epistemic Harms of Marital Rape: The Case for Experiential Injustice. Journal of Applied Philosophy
Ravish, S and Joshi, C (2020). Why Moral Epistemology is Not Just Epistemology Applied to Moral Beliefs. Kriterion Journal of Philosophy 34(4) pp.71-92 (http://www.kriterion-journal-ofphilosophy.org/kriterion/issues/Permanent/Kriterion-ravish-01.pdf)
Ravish, S. (2019). The Predicament of Moral Epistemology. Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, 36(2) pp. 265-279 (https://doi.org/10.1007/s40961-018-0170-x)
Recipient of Naik and Rastogi award for Excellence in Ph.D. Research from IIT Bombay [2020-22]
Best Essay on Public Philosophy, awarded by the Department of Philosophy, National Institute of Advanced Studies, India [2019]
Recipient of “The SS Barlingay Prize” and “The Kumari Anagha Dattatray Prize” for obtaining highest marks in MA (Philosophy), Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune [2015]
Ravish, S. The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Next-Token Prediction: LLMs and Epistemic Opacity to be presented at the Al & Society International Symposium 2026, hosted by the Digital Innovation Lab (DIL), Al
Akhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco, in July 2026
Ravish, S. ‘Social Reflective Equilibrium and Collective Moral Progress’ presented at the MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory in Sep’ 2021 organized by University of Manchester [Online] ·
Academic Experiences
Assistant professor (IIT Kanpur Feb 2022 - )
Assistant Professor (OP Jindal Global University 2021-22)
Institute Post-Doctoral Fellow (IIT Bombay 2021)