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Thomas Nagel’s contribution to philosophy over the past forty years has been enormously influential. In this book, the first sustained examination of Nagel’s ideas, Alan Thomas provides readers with a detailed exploration of the central dichotomy around which Nagel organizes his philosophy: the concern over how to reconcile the “subjective” and “objective” views of the world. Thomas begins by clarifying and defending Nagel’s basic metaphysical contrast between subjective and objective ways of thinking about the world. He shows how a proper understanding of radically perspectival views of the world allows one to defend some of Nagel’s most important claims about the mind: his influential work in the philosophy of mind is traced from his early paper on physicalism to his recent defence of a form of dual aspect theory. Thomas then turns the argument to ethics, where Nagel’s influence is pre-eminent, and the development of his views is traced from his contrast between subject and objective reasons in his early work to his later hybrid ethical theory. The volume concludes with an examination of Nagel’s political philosophy, particularly his recent controversial work on global justice.

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Biography: 1900-1999 --- North America: persons --- Philosophers --- United States --- Philosophy, American --- 157 --- Filosofen --- Filosofie-Amerika --- 1 --- Davidson Donald --- Dennett Daniel --- Erik Oger en Filip Buelens [red.] --- filosofie --- Goodman Nelson --- Kripke Saul --- Nagel Thomas --- Putnam Hilary --- Rawls John --- Rorty Richard --- van Orman Quine Willard --- Verenigde Staten --- Wijsbegeerte van c. 1900 tot heden --- Philosophie --- Philosophy [American ] --- 20th century --- Davidson, Donald --- Quine, Willard van Orman --- Rawls, John --- Rorty, Richard McKay --- Biografie: 1900-1999 --- Noord-Amerika: personen --- Verenigde Staten van Amerika --- Nagel, Thomas --- Rorty, Richard --- Goodman, Nelson --- Putnam, Hilary --- Dennett, Daniel Clement --- Quine, Willard Van Orman --- Kripke, Saul --- United States of America

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Dealing with a diverse set of problems in practical and theoretical ethics, these fourteen essays, three of them previously unpublished, reconfirm Joel Feinberg's leading position in the field of legal philosophy. With a clarity and humor that will be familiar to readers of his other works, Feinberg writes on topics including "wrongful life" suits in the law of torts, or whether there is any sense in the remark that a person is so badly off that he would be better off not existing at all; the morality of abortion; educational options; free expression; civil disobedience; and the duty of easy rescue in criminal law. He continues with a three-part defense of moral rights in the abstract, a discussion of voluntary euthanasia, and an inquiry into arguments of various kinds for not granting legal rights in enforcement of a person's acknowledged moral rights. This collection concludes with two essays dealing with concepts used in appraising the whole of a person's life: absurdity and self-fulfillment, and their interplay.

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