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Kieran Setiya is a professor of philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was born in Hull, UK. He is known for his work in ethics, epistemology, and the philosophy of mind. Setiya is a co-editor of Philosophers' Imprint. He has also been active in public philosophy and hosts a podcast, Five Questions, in which he asks contemporary philosophers five questions about themselves.

Books

• Life Is Hard, Riverhead Books (US), Hutchinson Heinemann (UK), 2022
• Midlife: A Philosophical Guide, Princeton University Press, 2017
• Practical Knowledge, Oxford University Press, 2016
• Knowing Right from Wrong, Oxford University Press, 2012
• Reasons without Rationalism, Princeton University Press, 2007

Other works

• Intention, article in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, first published 2009, revised July 2022.

References

1. "Kieran Setiya". www.penguin.co.uk. 21 September 2022. Retrieved 2022-09-21.
2. "Midlife by Kieran Setiya review – a philosophical guide to the crisis". The Guardian. 2 November 2018.
3. "S2, Episode 1: The Bottom of the Curve (Oct. 31st, 2017)". Hi-Phi Nation. 30 October 2017.
4. "How Schopenhauer's thought can illuminate a midlife crisis | Aeon Ideas". Aeon.
5. "Five Questions". Anchor.
6. Setiya, K., Intention, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, accessed 4 June 2023

External links

• Personal website

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