What Kieran Setiya thinks about writing
British-born philosopher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology working on ethics and the philosophy of mind; author of Midlife (2017) and Life Is Hard (2022); hosts the podcast Five Questions.
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Our readingPhilosophy is prose, not poetry.
Their wordsPhilosophy is not poetry, but prose.