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Midlife by kieran setiya
Midlife by kieran setiya










midlife by kieran setiya

Lovecraft, stand-up comedy, and the meaning of life. I have also written about baseball and philosophy, H. My work on midlife has been featured in Aeon, Hi-Phi Nation, Five Books, and the New York Times. It is available in bookstores and can be ordered online. My last book was Midlife: A Philosophical Guide. 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 References 'Kieran Setiya'. Kieran Setiya confronts the inevitable challenges of adulthood and middle age, showing how philosophy can. Excerpts in the Atlantic, LitHub, BBC Future, Big Think, Nautilus, and the Guardian. It's been reviewed by the Economist, the New York Times, the Sunday Times, and the Guardian, and was selected as one of the best books of 2022 by the EconomistĪnd the New Yorker.

midlife by kieran setiya

Combining philosophy with personal essay, the book has chapters on infirmity, loneliness, grief, failure, injustice, absurdity – and hope. My new book, Life is Hard, is out from Riverhead Books (US) and Hutchinson Heinemann (UK). I read Kieran Setiya’s Midlife (Princeton, 2017) not only because I have that condition and am sometimes troubled by its complaints, but also because I appreciate the style of thought that Pierre Hadot named philosophy as a way of life.Practitioners of this style acknowledge that it is important to develop and test arguments. I teach philosophy at MIT, working mainly in ethics, epistemology, and the philosophy of mind. I am the author of Practical Knowledge, Reasons without Rationalism, and Knowing Right From Wrong.












Midlife by kieran setiya