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  • What Does It All Mean? : A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy

    A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy

    by Thomas Nagel ...
    Should the hard questions of philosophy matter to ordinary people? In this down-to-earth nonhistorical guide Thomas Nagel the distinguished author of Mortal Questions and The View From Nowhere brings philosophical problems to life revealing in vivid accessible prose why they have continued to fascinate and baffle thinkers across the centuries. Arguing that the best way to learn about philosophy is ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Mortal Questions

    by Thomas Nagel ...
    Series series Canto Classics
    Thomas Nagel's Mortal Questions explores some fundamental issues concerning the meaning, nature and value of human life. Questions about our attitudes to death, sexual behaviour, social inequality, war and political power are shown to lead to more obviously philosophical problems about personal identity, consciousness, freedom and value. This original and illuminating book aims at a form of ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Mind and Cosmos:Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False

    Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False

    by Thomas Nagel ...
    The modern materialist approach to life has conspicuously failed to explain such central mind-related features of our world as consciousness, intentionality, meaning, and value. This failure to account for something so integral to nature as mind, argues philosopher Thomas Nagel, is a major problem, threatening to unravel the entire naturalistic world picture, extending to biology, evolutionary ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • What Does It All Mean?

    A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy

    by Thomas Nagel ...
    In this cogent and accessible introduction to philosophy, the distinguished author of Mortal Questions and The View From Nowhere sets forth the central problems of philosophical inquiry for the beginning student. Arguing that the best way to learn about philosophy is to think about its questions directly, Thomas Nagel considers possible solutions to nine problems--knowledge of the world beyond our ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The View From Nowhere

    by Thomas Nagel ...
    Human beings have the unique ability to view the world in a detached way: We can think about the world in terms that transcend our own experience or interest, and consider the world from a vantage point that is, in Nagel's words, "nowhere in particular". At the same time, each of us is a particular person in a particular place, each with his own "personal" view of the world, a view that we can ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • What Is It Like to Be a Bat?

    by Thomas Nagel ...
    A 50th anniversary edition of one of the most widely influential articles of 20th Century philosophy “Consciousness is what makes the mind-body problem really intractable.” So begins Thomas Nagel's classic 1974 essay “What is it Like to be a Bat?” Nagel's essay initiated the now widespread attention to consciousness as a central problem for philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience; it also ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Moral Feelings, Moral Reality, and Moral Progress

    by Thomas Nagel ...
    This volume presents two closely related essays by Thomas Nagel: “Gut Feelings and Moral Knowledge” and “Moral Reality and Moral Progress.” Both essays are concerned with moral epistemology and our means of access to moral truth; both are concerned with moral realism and with the resistance to subjectivist and reductionist accounts of morality; and both are concerned with the historical ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • Life, Death, and Meaning

    Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions

    by David Benatar, Margaret A. Boden, Fred Feldman, John Martin Fischer, Richard Hare, David Hume, W.D Joske, Immanuel Kant, Frederick Kaufman, John Leslie, Michaelis Michael, Thomas Nagel, Robert Nozick, Derek Parfit, George Pitcher, Stephen E. Rosenbaum, David Schmidtz, Arthur Schopenhauer, David B. Suits, Richard Taylor, Bruce N. Waller, Bernard Williams, Christine Overall, Peter Caldwell, James Lenman, Steven Luper ...
    Do our lives have meaning? Should we create more people? Is death bad? Should we commit suicide? Would it be better to be immortal? Should we be optimistic or pessimistic? Since Life, Death, and Meaning: Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions first appeared, David Benatar's distinctive anthology designed to introduce students to the key existential questions of philosophy has won a ... Read more

    $60.79 USD

  • The Last Word

    by Thomas Nagel ...
    If there is such a thing as reason, it has to be universal. Reason must reflect objective principles whose validity is independent of our point of view--principles that anyone with enough intelligence ought to be able to recognize as correct. But this generality of reason is what relativists and subjectivists deny in ever-increasing numbers. And such subjectivism is not just an inconsequential ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • Analytic Philosophy and Human Life

    by Thomas Nagel ...
    This book collects Thomas Nagel's recent philosophical reflections on topics of fundamental interest: ethics, moral psychology, science and religion, death, the holocaust, and the metaphysics of mind. Among the figures discussed are Peter Singer, Alvin Plantinga, Christine Korsgaard, Tony Judt, Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Iris Murdoch, T. M. Scanlon, Ronald Dworkin, Samuel Scheffler, Daniel ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • The Myth of Ownership

    Taxes and Justice

    by Liam Murphy, Thomas Nagel ...
    In a capitalist economy, taxes are the most important instrument by which the political system puts into practice a conception of economic and distributive justice. Taxes arouse strong passions, fueled not only by conflicts of economic self-interest, but by conflicting ideas of fairness. Taking as a guiding principle the conventional nature of private property, Murphy and Nagel show how taxes can ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Concealment and Exposure

    And Other Essays

    by Thomas Nagel ...
    Thomas Nagel is widely recognized as one of the top American philosophers working today. Reflecting the diversity of his many philosophical preoccupations, this volume is a collection of his most recent critical essays and reviews. The first section, Public and Private, focuses on the notion of privacy in the context of social and political issues, such as the impeachment of President Clinton. The ... Read more

    $42.29 USD