Kranti Saran

Upcoming & Recent Presentations, Events, and Projects

Invited speaker, Title TBA, Mind, Ethics, and Metaphysics in Buddhism Conference, Bilkent University, February 2026.

Conference participant, Perceptual experience and emperical reason 2025, Pittsburgh, December 2025.

Inaugural speaker for AY 2025-26 of the Philosophical Society, "Of tomatoes, daggers, and damn spots: accounting for the objects of hallucination", St Stephen's College, October 2025.

Invited speaker, ""Rethinking the distinction between top-down and bottom-up attention." Cognitive Science Lecture Series, IIT-Delhi, September 2025.

About me

My research interests span the areas of perception, attention, bodily awareness, introspection, mimicry, and how these topics are related to our moral relation to others. A common thread that runs through my research is a concern with understanding facets of our cognition: its faculties and modes (perception, attention), its embodiment (bodily awareness), its consequences for our relation to our selves and our immediate social milieu (introspection, mimicry), and finally, the manner in which these topics interact with culture and so either constrain or enable dimensions of our moral relation to others.

You can find my published work here.