Professor  Chakrabarti did his doctoral work in philosophy of language at Oxford in early 1980s under Sir Peter Strawason and Sir Michael Dummett. Since 1984, he has taught at University of Calcutta, University College London, University of Washington Seattle,  University of Delhi,  and, for the last 22 years University of Hawaii.  Since  Fall 2018, he occupies the Mattoo Endowed Chair in Indic Humanities at the Department of Philosophy, Stony Brook University. He published   Denying Existence   on the logic of singular negative existentials, from Synthese Library Series in 1997, and has most recently edited the Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Indian Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art (2016). His next major book   Realisms Interlinked: Objects, Subjects and Other Subjects is forthcoming from Bloomsbury in early 2019.