John Kaag

John Kaag is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. He is the author of Sick Souls, Healthy Minds: How William James Can Save Your Life (Princeton, 2020, Finalist, 2021 PROSE Award), Hiking with Nietzsche: On Becoming Who You Are (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2018, pbk Picador, 2019, NPR Book of the Year), American Philosophy: A Love Story (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2016, NPR Book of the Year, New York Times Editors' Choice), and Idealism, Pragmatism, and...See more

John Kaag is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell. He is the author of Sick Souls, Healthy Minds: How William James Can Save Your Life (Princeton, 2020, Finalist, 2021 PROSE Award), Hiking with Nietzsche: On Becoming Who You Are (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2018, pbk Picador, 2019, NPR Book of the Year), American Philosophy: A Love Story (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2016, NPR Book of the Year, New York Times Editors' Choice), and Idealism, Pragmatism, and Feminism: The Philosophy of Ella Lyman Cabot (Lexington, 2013), and coauthor with Sarah Kreps of Drone Warfare (Polity, 2015, Choice Outstanding Title). See less