John Kaag

John Kaag is a professor of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, an external professor at the Santa Fe Institute, and the cofounder of Rebind Publishing.

An American Prophet of the Natural World

Celebrating the magical mundane

By John Kaag | Thursday March 5, 2026

Think, Again

Reckoning with the elegance of physical laws and the wonders of being alive

By John Kaag | Monday March 2, 2026

The Choice Is Ours

Survival of the most meaningful

By John Kaag | Monday March 4, 2024

Our Pragmatic Present

There is no prescribed meaning or purpose to our lives—and that’s okay

By John Kaag | Monday March 27, 2023

Touché-ing the Void

How can we live only to die?

By John Kaag | Monday November 22, 2021

Fatal Courage

How Emerson helped me see, as if for the first time

By John Kaag | Monday December 7, 2020

How to Live With Dying

Before I could accept mortality, I had to stop running from it

By John Kaag | Saturday October 24, 2020

“There Is No Time in the Garden”

The Poetry of W. S. Merwin

By John Kaag | Monday March 11, 2019

Freedom of Thought

The philosophical currents that shaped our nation

By John Kaag | Monday March 4, 2019

Think, Again

By John Kaag | Monday March 2, 2026

The Choice Is Ours

By John Kaag | Monday March 4, 2024

Our Pragmatic Present

By John Kaag | Monday March 27, 2023

Touché-ing the Void

By John Kaag | Monday November 22, 2021

Fatal Courage

By John Kaag | Monday December 7, 2020

How to Live With Dying

By John Kaag | Saturday October 24, 2020

“There Is No Time in the Garden”

By John Kaag | Monday March 11, 2019

Freedom of Thought

By John Kaag | Monday March 4, 2019

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