Kieran Setiya teaches philosophy at MIT. He is the author of Midlife: A Philosophical Guide (2017), Life Is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way (2022), and a Substack newsletter, Under the Net.
Kieran Setiya
Articles
The Politics of Apoliticism
Kieran Setiya reviews Christoph Schuringa’s “A Social History of Analytic Philosophy.”
Reflections of a Moral Realist: On Thomas Nagel’s “Moral Feelings, Moral Reality, and Moral Progress”
Kieran Setiya reviews Thomas Nagel’s “Moral Feelings, Moral Reality, and Moral Progress.”
The Politics of Disenchantment: On Wendy Brown’s “Nihilistic Times”
Kieran Setiya reviews Wendy Brown’s “Nihilistic Times: Thinking with Max Weber.”
Buddhism as Self-Help: On Jay L. Garfield’s “Losing Ourselves: Learning to Live without a Self”
Kieran Setiya finds provocative questions in “Losing Ourselves: Learning to Live without a Self” by Jay L. Garfield.
The Vices of Virtuality
Reviewing three books in Columbia University Press’s provocative new “No Limits” series.
To Err Is Humean
Kieran Setiya questions "The Great Guide: What David Hume Can Teach Us About Being Human and Living Well" by Julian Baggini.
No Blueprint for Utopia
Do we need a single, coherent, overarching truth in order to live our lives?
Emo Philips Now
Kieran Setiya reckons with age alongside comic Emo Philips.
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