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Sushruth Ravish
PhD (IIT Bombay)
Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Research Interest
Moral epistemology, Metaethics, Normative ethics, Social epistemology, Political philosophy, Ethics of AI
Office
Room No. 654, Faculty Building
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur - 208016
Research Area
Ethics, Epistemology, Political Philosophy
Education
PhD (IIT Bombay)
Thesis: Naturalizing Moral Epistemology: A Methodological Investigation
MA (SP Pune University)
BE (The National Institute of Engineering, Mysore)
Selected Publications
Ravish, S. (in press). Social Reflective Equilibrium and Moral Progress: In Ontology of the Social: Agency, Attitudes and Ethics. Ed. by Bhaskarjit Neog. Routledge
Ravish, S (forthcoming). A Predicament for the Golden Triad of Transparency, Explainable AI and
Trust. Philosophy of Technology in India, ed. Vivek Kant,
Sreekumar Jayadevan, and Majari Chakraborty, Springer
Ravish, S. and Sharma, R. (2026), Tracking the Epistemic Harms of Marital Rape: The Case for Experiential Injustice. J Appl Philos, 43: 276-296. https://doi.org/10.1111/japp.70058
Ravish, S. and Sirola, V.S. (2023). Can Social Reflective Equilibrium Delineate Cornell Realist Epistemology?, Philosophia 51, pp. 2015–33. (https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-023-00654-9)
Joshi, C and Ravish, S (2023). Privilege: A Critical Inquiry, South African Journal of Philosophy, 42(1) pp. 63-73. (https://doi.org/10.1080/02580136.2023.2212357)
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 (https://doi.org/10.1515/krt-2020-340407)
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)
Awards & Fellowships
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]
Conference Presentations
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. and Rajan, J. Conspiracy Community: Rethinking ‘Belief’ in Conspiracy Theories
presented at the Conspiracies, Facts and Truth II Workshop, organised by the University of Waikato in Feb' 26 [Online]
Professional Experience
Academic Experiences
Assistant professor (IIT Kanpur Feb 2022 - )
Assistant Professor (OP Jindal Global University 2021-22)
Institute Post-Doctoral Fellow (IIT Bombay 2021)