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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.”...
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Kieran Setiya
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.
Articles
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?...
Our Predicament Is No Joke: On Terry Eagleton’s “Humour”
Kieran Setiya takes a serious look at “Humour” by Terry Eagleton....
On Infinite Baseball: An Interview with Alva Noë
Kieran Setiya interviews philosopher Alva Noë about his book, Infinite Baseball: Notes from a Philosopher on the Ballpark....
“Innumerable Intentions and Charms”: On Gary Browning’s “Why Iris Murdoch Matters”
Kieran Setiya considers “Why Iris Murdoch Matters” by Gary Browning....
Either Reason or a Rope: On Jennifer Summit and Blakey Vermeule’s “Action versus Contemplation: Why an Ancient Debate Still Matters”
Kieran Setiya contemplates “Action versus Contemplation: Why an Ancient Debate Still Matters,” an engaging new book by Jennifer Summit and Blakey Vermeule....
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