Kieran Setiya: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way in a Life of Infirmity, Loneliness, and Failure

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Kieran Setiya: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way in a Life of Infirmity, Loneliness, and Failure

Andrew Keen

Oct 09, 2022

Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now.

In this episode, Andrew is joined by Kieran Setiya, author of Life Is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way.

Kieran Setiya is a professor of philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the author of Midlife: A Philosophical Guide. His writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement (London), the London Review of Books, The New York Times, Aeon, and The Yale Review.

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