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About Me

I’m a philosopher and entrepreneur. I write here at Vatsal’s Newsletter and host conversations with leading thinkers on Vatsal’s Podcast. I’m also the founder of the Universal Open Textbook Initiative and the aestht app.

My favorite philosophers are Plato and David Hume. The novel that has had the most influence on me is The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky, and my favorite film is Mirror by Andrei Tarkovsky.

About Vatsal’s Newsletter

One of my life’s missions is to ground ethics in a naturalistic foundation—making questions of right and wrong answerable through the same methods that have helped us understand the physical world.

I’m also deeply interested in the nature of understanding itself: what it means to know something, what constitutes truth, and what creates intelligence.

I started this newsletter to expand on and publicize the ideas in these areas that I first outlined in a very short book, Freedom and Morality.

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