Welcome to Vatsal’s Newsletter

Where does morality come from? Do we have free will? Can artificial intelligence understand the world like we do? Each week I share an essay or conversation exploring these and other big questions through a fresh, original lens.

About Me

I’m Vatsal, a philosopher and entrepreneur. I write here at Vatsal’s Newsletter and host conversations with leading minds on Vatsal’s Podcast. I’m also the founder of the Universal Open Textbook Initiative, building the world’s largest repository of high-quality, multilingual open textbooks.

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 we use to understand the physical world.

I’m also deeply interested in the nature of understanding itself: how we know what we know, how intelligence emerges, and how truth is distinguished from falsehood.

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

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Email: vatsal@readvatsal.com