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Kranti Saran
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Philosopher of Mind. Perception, attention, consciousness, and whatever else interests me.

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Kranti Saran @krantisaran.bsky.social · Nov 25
For those joining bluer skies, a bit about me: blog.apaonline.org/2023/04/03/r...
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
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normdeplume.bsky.social
Hannah Arendt did not mince words, did she?

'Totalitarianism replaces all first-rate talents with crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.'

From "The Origins of Totalitarianism" (1951)
January 29, 2026 at 3:48 AM
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kraymondh.bsky.social
Huxley on dictatorial propaganda
#philsky
Dictatorial propaganda demands obedience and even considerable financial and other sacrifices; but by way of compensation it assures the individual that, as a member of a chosen nation, race, or class, he is superior to all other individuals in the world; it dissipates his sense of personal inferiority by investing him with the vicarious glory of the community; it gives him reasons for thinking well of himself; it provides him with enemies whom he may blame for his own shortcomings and upon whom he may vent his latent brutality and love of bullying.
January 14, 2026 at 10:59 AM
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timcrane.bsky.social
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
krantisaran.bsky.social
Nobody throws shade like Nabokov:
October 14, 2025 at 10:39 AM
krantisaran.bsky.social
“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/
What Can a Global Turn in Philosophy of Science Look Like? - PhilSci-Archive
philsci-archive.pitt.edu
August 31, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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jowolff.bsky.social
From Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams. Now known as The Trump Defence.
they even exclude one another. The whole plea - for this dream is nothing else - recalls vividly the defence offered by a man who was accused by his neighbour of having returned a kettle in a damaged condition. In the first place, he said, he had returned the kettle undamaged; in the second place it already had holes in it when he borrowed it; and in the third place, he had never borrowed it at all. A complicated defence, but so much the better; if only one of these three lines of defence is recognised as valid, the man must be acquitted.
August 29, 2025 at 11:32 AM
krantisaran.bsky.social
A unique, searing voice, and exceptionally good:
Cover of “every one still here” by Liadan Ni Chuinn
August 28, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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Werner Herzog is on Instagram:

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Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world.
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August 26, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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#IndependenceDay
August 15, 2025 at 9:10 AM
krantisaran.bsky.social
Easily the best novel(s) I’ve read all year:
Cover of Edna O’Brien’s The Country Girls Trilogy
August 9, 2025 at 11:13 AM
krantisaran.bsky.social
Evelyn Waugh
opinionhaver.bsky.social William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · Aug 9
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
krantisaran.bsky.social
A novel and enlightening intervention on the delimitation debate by Bastian Steuwer:

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
krantisaran.bsky.social
“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...
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
krantisaran.bsky.social
A welcome Luce cannonade:
archive.ph/EZ8Ys
March 16, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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timcrane.bsky.social
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
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February 10, 2025 at 3:33 AM
krantisaran.bsky.social
Pratap telling it like it is. This truly is the land of Maya.
February 1, 2025 at 7:08 AM
krantisaran.bsky.social
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
krantisaran.bsky.social
"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...
The computer is taking over | J. Krishnamurti
YouTube video by J. Krishnamurti - Official Channel
www.youtube.com
January 11, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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matthiasmichel.bsky.social
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
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January 8, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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timcrane.bsky.social
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
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faikkurtulmus.bsky.social
Elizabeth Anderson is on a roll at Crooked Timber these past few weeks:
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
krantisaran.bsky.social
Last swim in the ocean for the year.
December 20, 2024 at 5:40 AM
krantisaran.bsky.social
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
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drmichaellevin.bsky.social
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...
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