Scott Samuelson

Scott H. Samuelson is an American philosopher and Professor of Practice at Iowa State University, as well as a frequent teacher for the Catherine Project and the Lyceum Movement. He is the 2015 recipient of the Hiett Prize in the Humanities.

Books To Taste: On Cooking and the Good Life (University of Chicago Press, 2026) Rome as a Guide to the Good Life (University of Chicago Press, 2023) Seven Ways of Looking at Pointless Suffering (University of Chicago Press, 2018) The Deepest Human Life: An Introduction to Philosophy for Everyone (University of Chicago Press, 2014)