The Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science ( promotes research into philosophical, methodological and foundational questions arising in the natural and the social sciences. He is Principal Investigator on the Foundations of Animal Sentience project and teaches a course called The Big Questions: An Introduction to Philosophy. Jonathan Birch ( is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at LSE.
Lovecraft, stand-up comedy, and the meaning of life.
He has also written about baseball and philosophy, H. His previous book, Midlife: A Philosophical Guide, offered a philosophical analysis of the "midlife crisis". His new book, Life is Hard, combines philosophy with personal essay, discussing infirmity, loneliness, grief, failure, injustice, absurdity – and hope. Kieran Setiya ( is Professor of Philosophy at MIT. Susanne Burri is a Junior Professor of Philosophy at Universität Konstanz, specializing in the ethics of war and peace, the philosophy of death, and how to make good decisions in the face of uncertainty and risk. His latest book Coping: A Philosophical Guide, discusses hope, death, love, reconciliation and self-management. Before moving to Chapel Hill, he was based at LSE. Luc Bovens is Professor of Philosophy at UNC Chapel Hill. In this panel event, the authors will talk to Susanne Burri and Jonathan Birch about their ideas. Two recent books - Kieran Setiya's Life is Hard and Luc Bovens's Coping - argue that it can. We face personal losses and traumas, and confront a world that seems full of injustice, misery and absurdity. All human lives, even very comfortable ones, involve some degree of suffering and hardship.
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