Kranti Saran @krantisaran.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Very disappointed to see that a free resource by the @DerekBokCenter that I've used for years to help prepare my teaching fellows is now hidden behind a ProQuest paywall. It used to be available here: vimeo.com/104311202vimeo.comVimeo 010
Kranti Saran @krantisaran.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Free argument mapping software: philmaps.comphilmaps.comPhilMapsFree, classroom-tested lessons in argument visualization, practice arguments, and Because — a free browser editor for argument maps. 000
Kranti Saran @krantisaran.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Some straight talk from @cprajendran.bsky.social 000
Kranti Saran @krantisaran.bsky.social · 02/05/2026Every word: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/o...nytimes.comOpinion | We Should All Be Concerned About What’s Happening in India 052
Reposted by Kranti SaranKranti Saran @krantisaran.bsky.social · 14/04/2026My review of Neil Mehta's "A Pluralist Theory of Perception" is now up at Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews: ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/a-pl... #PhilSkyndpr.nd.eduA Pluralist Theory of PerceptionVeridically perceiving an ovoid yellow mango in ordinary circumstances differs from hallucinating a matching scene. In hallucination, there is no mango.... 053
Kranti Saran @krantisaran.bsky.social · 14/04/2026My review of Neil Mehta's "A Pluralist Theory of Perception" is now up at Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews: ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/a-pl... #PhilSkyndpr.nd.eduA Pluralist Theory of PerceptionVeridically perceiving an ovoid yellow mango in ordinary circumstances differs from hallucinating a matching scene. In hallucination, there is no mango.... 053
Kranti Saran @krantisaran.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Nations may war, but in my small community of philosophers of perception we count amongst us philosophers from Iran, Isreal, Lebanon, America, the UK, India... and as we puzzle and argue over perception, I like to think we are in our own small way contributing to peace. 040
Kranti Saran @krantisaran.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Address at the Thirty-sixth Annual Dinner of the War Resisters League by Martin Luther King, Jr., February 2, 1959: 000
Kranti Saran @krantisaran.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Uncanny parallels with what Pythia said to Croesus: 010
Kranti Saran @krantisaran.bsky.social · 27/03/2026How it ended the last time a Vance negotiated with Iran: 010
Kranti Saran @krantisaran.bsky.social · 11/03/2026From the philosopher and soldier J. Glenn Gray’s “The Warriors: Reflections on Men in Battle” (1959): 000
Kranti Saran @krantisaran.bsky.social · 24/02/2026This was so much fun -- thanks to Sean Smith and Alex Moran for organising it! 000
Reposted by Kranti SaranSimon Brown @simonabbrown.bsky.social · 09/02/2026We're starting a PhD programme in Philosophy at Ashoka! Anyone can apply by April 15 for admission this year, and we will ensure that admitted applicants receive enough funding to support them for the 5 year programme. More info here: www.ashoka.edu.in/programme/ph...ashoka.edu.inPh.D. Programme in Philosophy - Ashoka UniversityThe PhD in Philosophy programme conforms to all Ashoka PhD programme guidelines. Additional guidelines specific to the Philosophy PhD programme […] 23215
Reposted by Kranti SaranNorm DePlume @normdeplume.bsky.social · 29/01/2026Hannah 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) 7890349
Reposted by Kranti SaranKeith Raymond Harris @kraymondh.bsky.social · 14/01/2026Huxley on dictatorial propaganda #philsky 063
Reposted by Kranti SaranTim Crane @timcrane.bsky.social · 17/10/2025I 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...theideasletter.org“Bloodless Pedantry” - The Ideas LetterThe 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… 138328
Kranti Saran @krantisaran.bsky.social · 31/08/2025“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/philsci-archive.pitt.edu What Can a Global Turn in Philosophy of Science Look Like? - PhilSci-Archive 0166
Reposted by Kranti SaranJo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 29/08/2025From Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams. Now known as The Trump Defence. 2206
Kranti Saran @krantisaran.bsky.social · 28/08/2025A unique, searing voice, and exceptionally good: 052
Kranti Saran @krantisaran.bsky.social · 27/08/2025It seems so — he even has a reel explaining why he joined social media. 010
Kranti Saran @krantisaran.bsky.social · 26/08/2025Werner Herzog is on Instagram: www.instagram.com/reel/DNyVOOR...instagram.comLogin • InstagramWelcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world. 100
Kranti Saran @krantisaran.bsky.social · 16/04/2025A novel and enlightening intervention on the delimitation debate by Bastian Steuwer: indianexpress.com/article/opin...indianexpress.comThe key argument against delimitation shouldn’t be population policy but the ‘one person, one vote’ principleSupporters of delimitation say that “one person, one vote” justifies delimitation based on population size. But this conclusion is false 040
Kranti Saran @krantisaran.bsky.social · 01/04/2025“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...theguardian.comWho actually runs Columbia University? | Arjun Appadurai and Sheldon PollockTrustees 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 020
Reposted by Kranti SaranTim Crane @timcrane.bsky.social · 11/02/2025The 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.eduoecs.mit.eduOpen Encyclopedia of Cognitive ScienceThe 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... 913351
Kranti Saran @krantisaran.bsky.social · 01/02/2025Pratap telling it like it is. This truly is the land of Maya. 020
Kranti Saran @krantisaran.bsky.social · 19/01/2025Back 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! 0100
Kranti Saran @krantisaran.bsky.social · 11/01/2025"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...youtube.comThe computer is taking over | J. KrishnamurtiYouTube video by J. Krishnamurti - Official Channel 010
Reposted by Kranti SaranMatthias Michel @matthiasmichel.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Excellent interview of @neddo.bsky.social (www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM1f...)youtube.comNed Block: Consciousness, Artificial Intelligence, and the Philosophy of MindYouTube video by Robinson Erhardt 14617
Reposted by Kranti SaranTim Crane @timcrane.bsky.social · 02/01/2025This 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...lrb.co.ukFara Dabhoiwala · A Man of Parts and Learning: Francis Williams Gets His DueThe only certainty about the picture is that it shows Francis Williams. No one has ever been able to discover who... 86320
Reposted by Kranti SaranFaik Kurtulmus @faikkurtulmus.bsky.social · 24/12/2024Elizabeth Anderson is on a roll at Crooked Timber these past few weeks: crookedtimber.org/2024/12/24/p...crookedtimber.orgPlutocrats and Authoritarian Leaders: Like Flies to FlypaperCurtis 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… 32612
Kranti Saran @krantisaran.bsky.social · 15/12/2024The 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! 040
Reposted by Kranti SaranMike Levin @drmichaellevin.bsky.social · 13/12/2024Nic 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...nature.comDiscussions of machine versus living intelligence need more clarity - Nature Machine IntelligenceSharp 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 ... 24114