In this lucid and accessible book, Thomas Nagel explores the central questions of philosophy thoughtfully, clearly, and with humour. He demonstrates that philosophy is an indispensable key to understanding our lives, and far from being an arcane academic discipline, can be enjoyed by all.[...]

Much philosophical debate has attempted to reconcile the human capacity to view the world both objectively and subjectively. Thomas Nagel's ambitious and lively book tackles this fundamental issue, arguing that our divided nature is the root of a whole range of philosophical problems, touching, as i[...]

Over the past twenty-five years, Thomas Nagel has played a major role in the philosophico-biological debate on subjectivity and consciousness. This extensive collection of published essays and reviews offers Nagel's opinionated views on the philosophy of mind, epistemology, and political philosophy,[...]

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, fuelled not only by conflicts of economic self-interest, but by conflicting ideas of fairness. Taking as [...]

This volume collects recent essays and reviews by Thomas Nagel in three subject areas. The first section, including the title essay, is concerned with religious belief and some of the philosophical questions connected with it, such as the relation between religion and evolutionary theory, the questi[...]

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 iden[...]

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 iden[...]

Om något sådant som förnuft existerar, måste det vara universellt. Förnuftet måste avspegla objektiva principer vilkas giltighet är oberoende av vår synvinkel – principer som envar med tillräcklig intelligens borde kunna erkänna som korrekta. Men denna förnuftets universalitet är va[...]

Nagel ställer frågan hur det är möjligt för en ändlig varelse att överskrida sin särskilda synvinkel för att betrakta världen som helhet, hur de interna och de externa, de subjektiva och de objektiva ståndpunkterna förhåller sig till varandra, och hur de gemensamt bör styra den enskild[...]