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Kieran Setiya teaches philosophy at MIT. He is the author of Midlife: A Philosophical Guide and is the host of a podcast, Five Questions, in which he asks contemporary philosophers five questions about themselves. His latest book is Life Is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way.
Where is the line between professional philosophy and self-help? And how did we end up with this stark divide?
In his new book, philosopher William MacAskill implies that humanity’s long-term survival matters more than preventing short-term suffering and death. His arguments are shaky.
On the first English translation of Wittgenstein's early private notebooks.
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