Kieran Setiya Explained

Region:	Western philosophy
Era:	21st-century philosophy
Kieran Setiya
Birth Place:	Hull, UK
School Tradition:	Analytic
Institutions:	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Main Interests:	ethics, epistemology, philosophy of mind
Education:	Princeton University (PhD), Jesus College, Cambridge (BA)
Awards:	Charles A. Ryskamp Fellowship
Website:	http://www.ksetiya.net/

Kieran Setiya is a Professor of Philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was born in Hull, UK.^[1] 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.^{[2] [3] [4] [5]}

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.^[6]

External links

• Personal website

Notes and References

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