Lalit Saraswat

Lalit Saraswat serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. His academic work bridges philosophy, cognitive science, and evolutionary biology with a specialization in Evolutionary Epistemology focusing on cognitive perceptual mechanisms and theories.

Dr. Saraswat's research interests encompass the philosophy of Science, evolutionary biological theories for understanding perception and cognition, emergence, multi-level causation, creativity, and conceptual issues in neurophilosophy, neuroethics, and genetics. His scholarly work demonstrates a sophisticated integration of evolutionary frameworks with epistemological inquiry, particularly examining how cognitive and perceptual mechanisms have evolved to facilitate knowledge acquisition.

His recent publications reveal a strong thematic focus on evolutionary approaches to philosophical problems, with particular attention to Popper's work, Meno's paradox, belief-reference relationships, and downward causation. These works collectively demonstrate his commitment to developing an evolutionary epistemological framework that connects biological processes with cognitive functions.

• Institute Fellowship, IIT Bombay
• JRF-ICPR

Dr. Saraswat previously held teaching positions at FLAME University (2018-19) and served as an Adjunct/Visiting Assistant Professor at NMIMS, Mumbai (2016-17). His educational background includes a PhD from IIT Bombay with a thesis titled 'Life, Knowledge, and Cognition: An Evolutionary Epistemological Inquiry' supervised by Prof. V. S. Sirola, an M.S. in Consciousness Studies from BITS-Pilani, and a B.Tech in Biotechnology from Amity University.