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Kranti Saran

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Philosopher of Mind. Perception, attention, consciousness, and whatever else interests me. All posts are personal and reposts =/= endorsements. www.krantisaran.net

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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 ...

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Kranti Saran @krantisaran.bsky.social · Aug 31

“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

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · Aug 29

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.

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Kranti Saran @krantisaran.bsky.social · Aug 28

A unique, searing voice, and exceptionally good:

Cover of “every one still here” by Liadan Ni Chuinn

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Kranti Saran @krantisaran.bsky.social · Aug 27

It seems so — he even has a reel explaining why he joined social media.

Kranti Saran @krantisaran.bsky.social · Aug 26

Werner Herzog is on Instagram:

www.instagram.com/reel/DNyVOOR...

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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Kranti Saran @krantisaran.bsky.social · Aug 15

#IndependenceDay

Kranti Saran @krantisaran.bsky.social · Aug 9

Easily the best novel(s) I’ve read all year:

Cover of Edna O’Brien’s The Country Girls Trilogy

Kranti Saran @krantisaran.bsky.social · Aug 9

Evelyn Waugh

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?

Kranti Saran @krantisaran.bsky.social · Apr 16

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

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Kranti Saran @krantisaran.bsky.social · Apr 1

“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

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Kranti Saran @krantisaran.bsky.social · Mar 16

A welcome Luce cannonade:
archive.ph/EZ8Ys

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Tim Crane @timcrane.bsky.social · Feb 11

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...

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Kranti Saran @krantisaran.bsky.social · Feb 10

Kranti Saran @krantisaran.bsky.social · Feb 1

Pratap telling it like it is. This truly is the land of Maya.

Kranti Saran @krantisaran.bsky.social · Jan 19

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!

Kranti Saran @krantisaran.bsky.social · Jan 14

Word.

Kranti Saran @krantisaran.bsky.social · Jan 11

"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

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Matthias Michel @matthiasmichel.bsky.social · Jan 8

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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Tim Crane @timcrane.bsky.social · Jan 2

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...

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Faik Kurtulmus @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social · Dec 24

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

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Kranti Saran @krantisaran.bsky.social · Dec 20

Last swim in the ocean for the year.

Kranti Saran @krantisaran.bsky.social · Dec 15

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!

Kranti Saran @krantisaran.bsky.social · Dec 14

😂

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Mike Levin @drmichaellevin.bsky.social · Dec 13

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 ...

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Kranti Saran @krantisaran.bsky.social · Dec 12

IIT-Bombay has pretty sunsets and… unusual signage.

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