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Lalit Saraswat
PhD (IIT Bombay)
Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Research Interest
My research focuses on the philosophy of Science, the relevance of Evolutionary Biological Theories for understanding the nature and origins of Perception, Cognition, the notion of Emergence, Causation (multi-level), Creativity, along with interests in the conceptual issues in Neurophilosophy, Neuroethics, and Genetics.
Office
Motwani Building 603
Department of HSS
IIT Kanpur,
Kanpur 208016
Education
PhD, IIT Bombay
Thesis Title: Life, Knowledge, and Cognition: An Evolutionary Epistemological Inquiry
Thesis Supervisor: Prof. V. S. Sirola
M.S., (Consciousness Studies), BITS-Pilani
B.Tech., (Biotechnology), Amity University
Selected Publications
Saraswat, Lalit & Sirola, V.S. (2019). “Popper’s evolutionary therapy to Meno’s paradox”, JICPR, Springer India.
Saraswat, Lalit. (2017). "Evolutionary Constraints on Cognitive and Epistemic Creative Processes", Indian Philosophical Quarterly. Vol. 44. No.1. January-March.
Saraswat, Lalit. (2018). “Selection Theory and Belief-Reference Fitment”, Contemporary Epistemological Issues: Contributions of Alvin I. Goldman. ICPR. Delhi. (Accepted)
Sirola, V.S. & Saraswat, Lalit (2018). “An Evolutionary Epistemological Reading of Meno’s Paradox: Evaluating Goldman’s Critique”, Contemporary Epistemological Issues: Contributions of Alvin I. Goldman. ICPR. Delhi. (Accepted)
Saraswat, Lalit. (2018). “Downward Causation, Selection theory, and Autopoiesis’, Proceedings of International Philosophy Symposium, University of Maribor. (Accepted)
Awards & Fellowships
Institute Fellowship, IIT Bombay
JRF-ICPR
Keywords
Evolutionary Epistemology (Philosophy of Science, Biology), Cognition, Creativity, Emergence
Professional Experience
Assistant Professor, FLAME University 2018-19
Assistant Professor (Adjunct/Visiting), NMIMS, Mumbai, 2016-17