Analytic Philosophy and Human Life

Thomas Nagel (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

312 Seiten

2023
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-768167-1 (ISBN)

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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 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 as opposed to utilitarianism, one that includes deontological elements such as rights and special responsibilities. A realist outlook also informs his discussion of metaphysical and epistemological questions.

The book closes with tributes to a number of people Nagel has known over the course of his career. The essays are all addressed to a general audience, and should appeal not only to philosophers but to anyone interested in current attempts to understand human life, human values, and how we fit into the world.

Thomas Nagel is University Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy and the School of Law at NYU. His extensive writings deal with ethics, political theory, philosophy of mind, epistemology, and the meaning of life. Among his books are The View from Nowhere and Mind and Cosmos.

1. Analytic Philosophy and Human Life

Life and Death
2. Tony Judt, Life and Memory
3. After We've Gone
4. Can We Survive?
5. Assistance in Dying
6. Theresienstadt

Ethics
7. Peter Singer and You
8. Effective Altruism
9. Korsgaard, Kant, and Our Fellow Creatures
10. Regret and Its Limits
11. Four Women
12. Law, Morality, and Truth
13. The Illusion of Tax Fairness

Moral Psychology
14. Scanlon on the Reality of Reasons
15. Kahneman's Thinking
16. The Cortex and the Trolley Problem
17. Modular Morality
18. Fictions and Ideals

Reality
19. The Core of Mind and Cosmos
20. Plantinga on Science and Religion
21. Is Metaphysics Possible?
22. Creators of the Modern Mind
23. Dennett's Illusions

Tributes
24. Betsy Dworkin 1933-2000
25. Robert Nozick 1938-2002
26. John Rawls 2021-2002
27. Bernard Williams 1929-2003
28. Donald Davidson 1917-2003
29. Peter Strawson 1919-2006
30. Ronald Dworkin 2006
31. John Searle 2009
32. Ronald Dworkin 1931-2013
33. Barry Stroud 1935-2019

Erscheinungsdatum	05.08.2023
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	149 x 211 mm
Gewicht	467 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-19-768167-0 / 0197681670
ISBN-13	978-0-19-768167-1 / 9780197681671
Zustand	Neuware