Sean Dorrance Kelly is an American philosopher

Philosophy

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. He is Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Harvard University

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

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Kelly is co-author with Hubert Dreyfus

Hubert Dreyfus

Hubert Lederer Dreyfus is an American philosopher. He is a professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley....

 of All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age (2011), which became a New York Times bestseller. Historian Garry Wills

Garry Wills

Garry Wills is a Pulitzer Prize-winning and prolific author, journalist, and historian, specializing in American politics, American political history and ideology and the Roman Catholic Church. Classically trained at a Jesuit high school and two universities, he is proficient in Greek and Latin...

 wrote a critical review of All Things Shining in The New York Review of Books, prompting a reply by Dreyfus and Kelly.

Kelly was featured, along with Hubert Dreyfus

Hubert Dreyfus

Hubert Lederer Dreyfus is an American philosopher. He is a professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley....

, Charles Taylor

Charles Taylor (philosopher)

Charles Margrave Taylor, is a Canadian philosopher from Montreal, Quebec best known for his contributions in political philosophy, the philosophy of social science, and in the history of philosophy. His contributions to these fields have earned him both the prestigious Kyoto Prize and the...

, Albert Borgmann

Albert Borgmann

Albert Borgmann is an American philosopher, specializing in the philosophy of technology. He was born in Freiburg, Germany, and is a professor of philosophy at the University of Montana.-Philosophy:...

, and Taylor Carman

Taylor Carman

Taylor Carman is an American philosopher. He is Professor of philosophy at Barnard College.Carman's main areas of interest are in the philosophy of Martin Heidegger and in phenomenology...

, in the documentary Being in the World (2010), which explores the phenomenology of everyday life.