Kieran Setiya
Né(e): February 07, 1976 – Hull, England, United Kingdom
Kieran Setiya is a British philosopher and MIT professor whose work spans ethics, epistemology, and the philosophy of action, often connecting academic ideas to everyday life. He is the author of Midlife: A Philosophical Guide and Life Is Hard, books that brought philosophical reflection on agency, meaning, and difficulty to a broad readership.
Biographie et Parcours de l'Auteur
Kieran Setiya grew up in Hull, Yorkshire, and has said that his path into philosophy began not in a seminar room but through science fiction and the horror fiction of H. P. Lovecraft, whose stories pushed him toward larger questions about reality, value, and human understanding. He studied philosophy at Jesus College, Cambridge, then completed a Ph.D. at Princeton University in January 2002. After more than a decade at the University of Pittsburgh, he joined MIT in 2014; as of 2024, he has served as head of MIT’s Department of Linguistics and Philosophy and holds the de Florez Professorship. Across that academic career, his central fields have remained ethics, epistemology, and the philosophy of action and mind. ((https://news.mit.edu/2015/faculty-profile-kieran-setiya-1113))
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"Kieran Setiya is both an unusually gifted writer ... the perfect companion for the journey"
— Oliver Burkeman
"Kieran Setiya has produced the ultimate handbook of hardship"
— Daniel H. Pink
"Life may be hard, but Kieran Setiya shows us better ways to think about it and how, despite everything, that can give us hope"
— Katherine May
"In Life Is Hard, Kieran Setiya shows us the gift that philosophy becomes when it removes its mask of impersonality to reveal its human face"
— Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
"Kieran Setiya makes the case that philosophy can help us navigate the adversities of human life"
— The Guardian
"I found Kieran Setiya's Midlife: A Philosophical Guide both instructive and consoling"
— Joshua Ferris
"Kieran Setiya is that rare bird, a philosopher of exceptional ability with the courage to face the deepest questions"
— Zena Hitz
"Kieran Setiya argues that certain bracing challenges ... are essentially unavoidable"
— The New Yorker
"In this engaging and accessible book, Kieran Setiya explores questions about what we live for"
— Richard Moran
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