Lalit Saraswat

PhD (IIT Bombay)

Email: lalits[AT]iitk.ac.in

Office Phone: 0512-259-2093

Assistant Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences

Specialization

Evolutionary Epistemology (Cognitive Perceptual Mechanisms/ Theories)

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.

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

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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)