Kranti Saran
@krantisaran.bsky.social
Philosopher of Mind. Perception, attention, consciousness, and whatever else interests me.
All posts are personal and reposts =/= endorsements.
www.krantisaran.net
All posts are personal and reposts =/= endorsements.
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Kranti Saran
@krantisaran.bsky.social
· Nov 25
Reports from Abroad: Dr. Kranti Saran
This series questions and complicates what ‘reporting from abroad’ can mean in a globalized world that faces interconnected and local crises alongside forces grappling with how to liberate our beings ...
blog.apaonline.org
For those joining bluer skies, a bit about me: blog.apaonline.org/2023/04/03/r...
Reposted by Kranti Saran
I wrote something about analytic Philospphy, and Christoph Schuringa’s book for the Ideas Letter @stefanschubert.bsky.social @lbenardo.bsky.social www.theideasletter.org/essay/bloodl...
“Bloodless Pedantry” - The Ideas Letter
The academic study of philosophy tends to inspire contempt, from within and from without. Stephen Hawking’s pompous pronouncement in 2010 that “philosophy is dead” is just one version of a…
www.theideasletter.org
October 17, 2025 at 7:00 AM
I wrote something about analytic Philospphy, and Christoph Schuringa’s book for the Ideas Letter @stefanschubert.bsky.social @lbenardo.bsky.social www.theideasletter.org/essay/bloodl...
Nobody throws shade like Nabokov:
October 14, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Nobody throws shade like Nabokov:
“What Can a Global Turn in
Philosophy of Science Look Like?”, forthcoming in Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, by former Ashoka philosophy undergrad Kabir S. Bakshi.
Congratulations Kabir!
philsci-archive.pitt.edu/26382/
Philosophy of Science Look Like?”, forthcoming in Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, by former Ashoka philosophy undergrad Kabir S. Bakshi.
Congratulations Kabir!
philsci-archive.pitt.edu/26382/
What Can a Global Turn in Philosophy of Science Look Like? - PhilSci-Archive
philsci-archive.pitt.edu
August 31, 2025 at 4:43 PM
“What Can a Global Turn in
Philosophy of Science Look Like?”, forthcoming in Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, by former Ashoka philosophy undergrad Kabir S. Bakshi.
Congratulations Kabir!
philsci-archive.pitt.edu/26382/
Philosophy of Science Look Like?”, forthcoming in Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, by former Ashoka philosophy undergrad Kabir S. Bakshi.
Congratulations Kabir!
philsci-archive.pitt.edu/26382/
Reposted by Kranti Saran
From Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams. Now known as The Trump Defence.
August 29, 2025 at 11:32 AM
From Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams. Now known as The Trump Defence.
A unique, searing voice, and exceptionally good:
August 28, 2025 at 3:21 PM
A unique, searing voice, and exceptionally good:
Easily the best novel(s) I’ve read all year:
August 9, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Easily the best novel(s) I’ve read all year:
Evelyn Waugh
Here’s a question: who is the artist with politics you disagree strongly with, whose politics *do* (in your view) influence their art, that you still think is talented and whose work you enjoy?
August 9, 2025 at 4:48 AM
Evelyn Waugh
A novel and enlightening intervention on the delimitation debate by Bastian Steuwer:
indianexpress.com/article/opin...
indianexpress.com/article/opin...
The key argument against delimitation shouldn’t be population policy but the ‘one person, one vote’ principle
Supporters of delimitation say that “one person, one vote” justifies delimitation based on population size. But this conclusion is false
indianexpress.com
April 16, 2025 at 1:46 PM
A novel and enlightening intervention on the delimitation debate by Bastian Steuwer:
indianexpress.com/article/opin...
indianexpress.com/article/opin...
“Boards are accountable to no one – only to themselves, and to some vague set of norms, often unwritten, about their obligations. Accountability is for faculty, administrators, and students.”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Who actually runs Columbia University? | Arjun Appadurai and Sheldon Pollock
Trustees aren’t academics – and they’re often political wolves in sheep’s clothing. We need reform to save the American university as we know it
www.theguardian.com
April 1, 2025 at 3:36 PM
“Boards are accountable to no one – only to themselves, and to some vague set of norms, often unwritten, about their obligations. Accountability is for faculty, administrators, and students.”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A welcome Luce cannonade:
archive.ph/EZ8Ys
archive.ph/EZ8Ys
March 16, 2025 at 11:41 AM
A welcome Luce cannonade:
archive.ph/EZ8Ys
archive.ph/EZ8Ys
Reposted by Kranti Saran
The MIT Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science is a growing resource, expertly edited and designed, with high quality contributors (OK OK I am one of them) oecs.mit.edu
Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science
The Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science is a new, multidisciplinary guide to understanding the mind: a freely-available, growing collection of peer-reviewed articles introducing key topics to a bro...
oecs.mit.edu
February 11, 2025 at 9:59 AM
The MIT Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science is a growing resource, expertly edited and designed, with high quality contributors (OK OK I am one of them) oecs.mit.edu
Pratap telling it like it is. This truly is the land of Maya.
February 1, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Pratap telling it like it is. This truly is the land of Maya.
Back in the classroom tomorrow. For the first time ever, my elective Intro. to Philosophy course has more students than the required foundation course I taught last semester (139 vs. 132). Go Ashoka philosophy!
January 19, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Back in the classroom tomorrow. For the first time ever, my elective Intro. to Philosophy course has more students than the required foundation course I taught last semester (139 vs. 132). Go Ashoka philosophy!
"If the machine can take over everything man can do and do it still better than us, then what is a human being?... What have we left?" Prescient thoughts circa 1981 by Krishnamurti that bear on the AI-revolution:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kut5...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kut5...
The computer is taking over | J. Krishnamurti
YouTube video by J. Krishnamurti - Official Channel
www.youtube.com
January 11, 2025 at 5:42 AM
"If the machine can take over everything man can do and do it still better than us, then what is a human being?... What have we left?" Prescient thoughts circa 1981 by Krishnamurti that bear on the AI-revolution:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kut5...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kut5...
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Excellent interview of @neddo.bsky.social (www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM1f...)
Ned Block: Consciousness, Artificial Intelligence, and the Philosophy of Mind
YouTube video by Robinson Erhardt
www.youtube.com
January 8, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Excellent interview of @neddo.bsky.social (www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM1f...)
Reposted by Kranti Saran
This is brilliant. Best thing I’ve read in 2025 (!) but more seriously, one of the best things the LRB has published in recent years. Fara Dabhoiwala on Francis Williams www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Fara Dabhoiwala · A Man of Parts and Learning: Francis Williams Gets His Due
The only certainty about the picture is that it shows Francis Williams. No one has ever been able to discover who...
www.lrb.co.uk
January 2, 2025 at 4:15 AM
This is brilliant. Best thing I’ve read in 2025 (!) but more seriously, one of the best things the LRB has published in recent years. Fara Dabhoiwala on Francis Williams www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Reposted by Kranti Saran
Elizabeth Anderson is on a roll at Crooked Timber these past few weeks:
crookedtimber.org/2024/12/24/p...
crookedtimber.org/2024/12/24/p...
Plutocrats and Authoritarian Leaders: Like Flies to Flypaper
Curtis Yarvin, darling authoritarian ideologue of many tech billionaires, is back in the news, along with his deep links to J.D. Vance, via Peter Thiel. It’s no secret that plutocrats tend to…
crookedtimber.org
December 24, 2024 at 9:28 AM
Elizabeth Anderson is on a roll at Crooked Timber these past few weeks:
crookedtimber.org/2024/12/24/p...
crookedtimber.org/2024/12/24/p...
Last swim in the ocean for the year.
December 20, 2024 at 5:40 AM
Last swim in the ocean for the year.
The highest quality backlit screen I’ve ever seen at any conference at the Saxena Auditorium at IIT-Bombay. @somakrc.bsky.social we should get one of these!
December 15, 2024 at 4:30 AM
The highest quality backlit screen I’ve ever seen at any conference at the Saxena Auditorium at IIT-Bombay. @somakrc.bsky.social we should get one of these!
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Nic Rouleau & I: checklist to go through when settling on opinions about AI, diverse intelligence, unconventional cognition, consciousness, mind/machine issues, etc. When you read (or write) about these topics, run the perspective through this, to kick the tires. 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Discussions of machine versus living intelligence need more clarity - Nature Machine Intelligence
Sharp distinctions often drawn between machine and biological intelligences have not tracked advances in the fields of developmental biology and hybrid robotics. We call for conceptual clarity driven ...
www.nature.com
December 13, 2024 at 1:54 PM
Nic Rouleau & I: checklist to go through when settling on opinions about AI, diverse intelligence, unconventional cognition, consciousness, mind/machine issues, etc. When you read (or write) about these topics, run the perspective through this, to kick the tires. 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
www.nature.com/articles/s42...
IIT-Bombay has pretty sunsets and… unusual signage.
December 12, 2024 at 5:02 PM
IIT-Bombay has pretty sunsets and… unusual signage.
Reposted by Kranti Saran
This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.
I'm sure many have said this before but I'm reading a student-facing document about how students might use AI in the classroom (if allowed) and one of the recs is: use AI to make an outline of your reading! But ISN'T MAKING THE OUTLINE how one actually learns?
December 11, 2024 at 10:43 PM
This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.