About Kieran Setiya
Born 1976. Kieran Setiya is a philosopher.
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.
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