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Kieran Setiya, Associate Professor

Ethics, Philosophy of Action, Philosophy of Mind

PhD, Princeton, 2002

kis23@pitt.edu

Kieran Setiya is associate professor of philosophy. His principal interests are in ethics, philosophy of action and philosophy of mind. He has also worked on Hume and the British moralists. In 2006, he will be a Ryskamp Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies.

Select Publications

"Cognitivism about Instrumental Reason", forthcoming in Ethics.

Reasons without Rationalism, Princeton University Press, 2007.

"Hume on Practical Reason", Philosophical Perspectives 18 (December 2004), pp. 365-389.

"Explaining Action", Philosophical Review 112 (July 2003; published September 2004), pp. 339-393.

"Against Internalism", Noûs 38 (June 2004), pp. 266-298.

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Carnap's record of the Vienna Circle members' votes about certain important philosophical propositions and how their positions were changed after reading the Tractatus of Wittgenstein. open [+]

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