Arhat’s expertise covers Economics, Finance, Accounting, and Philosophy. In addition to being a Senior Fellow in Finance and Economics at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, he is also a Senior Lecturer in Economics at Oriel College, Oxford. He serves as an adjunct member of the Economics Faculty at Hong Kong University, as well as being a Research Associate at the London School of Economics (LSE). He is a Fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries. And a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Prior to returning to Oxford, Arhat was a member of the Senior Management team at the Bermuda Monetary Authority (Bermuda’s integrated regulator of Bermuda’s financial services industry), working as a Director of Policy, Research, and Risk. Previous to that, he held positions as an LSE Fellow in Economics, a Research Fellow in the Philosophy of Economics at the University of Bielefeld, and a Lecturer in Economics at City University (London). Arhat read PPE as an undergraduate at Oxford (Double 1st), then read for a MSc in Philosophy & Economics (Distinction) at the LSE. Thereafter, despite an intention to undertake doctoral research in Economics, Arhat took a Doctorate in Philosophy at the LSE instead, with honourable mention, having been seduced into wrestling important topics in the fields of Mathematical and Philosophical Logic, as well as the Philosophy of Science.
Arhat is concerned to apply the kind of analytical rigour found in philosophical analysis to social scientific research generally. His interests are centred around methodological issues within Economics, the possibility of objectivity in Financial Reporting, and the soundness or otherwise in thinking that Game Theory has real-world applications. He has lately also become preoccupied by Financial Asset Pricing.
(in progress) “Is it in the Nature of Economics to Make a Leap?”
(in progress) “Defending Objectivist Representationalism in Financial Reporting”
(in progress) “What is Truth?”, monograph based on my doctoral research; Ph.D. thesis available here: http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/252/1/Virdi_What%20is%20truth.pdf
(in progress) “On the (Homomorphic) Correspondence Theory of Truth”
2013, “The IS/LM Model applied to Bermuda”: macroeconomic modelling commissioned by the Spending and Government Efficiency (SAGE) Commission, Ministry of Finance, Government of Bermuda
2009, “The Slingshot argument, Gödel’s hesitation and Tarskian semantics”, Prolegomena, 8, pp. 233-241: http://hrcak.srce.hr/index.php?show=clanak&id_clanak_jezik=68307
2007, “Review of ‘Ernest Sosa and His Critics’ ed. John Greco”, Philosophy Today, 19, pp. 11-12
2006, “On why the Slingshot against the Correspondence Theory of Truth misfires”, Minerva, 10, pp. 28-34: http://www.minerva.mic.ul.ie/vol10/Slingshot.html
2005, “The Substantiality of Truth”, Philosophical Enquiry Discussion Paper, Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Sciences, LSE