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Analytic philosophy and human life / Thomas Nagel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nagel, Thomas, 1937- author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethics.
- Death.
- Life.
- Reality--Philosophy.
- Reality.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (185 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- This volume collects Thomas Nagel's recent philosophical reflections on topics of fundamental interest: ethics, moral psychology, science and religion, death and the Holocaust, and the metaphysics of mind. Among the figures discussed are Peter Singer, Alvin Plantinga, Christine Korsgaard, Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Iris Murdoch, T.M. Scanlon, Ronald Dworkin, Samuel Scheffler, Daniel Kahneman, Jonathan Haidt, Joshua Greene, and Daniel Dennett. Nagel consistently defends a realist interpretation of moral truth and resists reductive attempts to subsume ethics to psychology and evolutionary theory. He also defends a pluralistic conception of the content of morality against utilitarianism, including deontological elements such as rights and special responsibilities.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2023.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on August 31, 2023).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Nagel, Thomas Analytic Philosophy and Human Life
- ISBN:
- 0-19-768170-0
- 0-19-768169-7
- 0-19-768168-9
- 9780197681695
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