John Kaag is professor and Chair of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell.[2] Kaag was a Miller Scholar at the Santa Fe Institute from 2019 to 2021, and is now an External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute.[9][10]
In February 2023, Kaag delivered the lecture "William James and the Sick Soul" for
Harvard Divinity School's William James Lectures on Religious Experience series.[11]
Awards
Kaag's book American Philosophy: A Love Story won the John Dewey Prize from the Society for U.S. Intellectual History.[12]
Hiking with Nietzsche was named the Best Book of 2018 by
NPR and a New York Times Editors' Choice.[12][13]
Bibliography
Idealism, Pragmatism, and Feminism: The Philosophy of Ella Lyman Cabot (2011). Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield.
ISBN978-0-7391-6781-6.
Thinking Through the Imagination: Aesthetics in Human Cognition (2014). New York: Fordham University Press.
ISBN978-0-8232-5493-4.
American Philosophy: A Love Story (2016). New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
ISBN978-0-3741-5448-6.
Hiking with Nietzsche: On Becoming Who You Are (2018). New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
ISBN978-0-3741-7001-1.
Sick Souls, Healthy Minds: How William James Can Save Your Life (2020). Princeton: Princeton University Press.
ISBN978-0-6911-9216-1.
Be Not Afraid of Life: In the Words of William James (2023). Princeton: Princeton University Press.
ISBN978-0-6912-4015-2.
Henry at Work: Thoreau on Making a Living (2023). Princeton: Princeton University Press.
ISBN978-0-6912-4469-3.
American Bloods: The Untamed Dynasty That Shaped a Nation (2024). New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
ISBN978-0-3741-0391-0.
Thinking through Writing: A Guide to Becoming a Better Writer and Thinker (2024). Princeton: Princeton University Press.
ISBN978-0-6912-4959-9.