Analytic Philosophy and Human Life | Buch

Cover: 9780197681671 | Analytic Philosophy and Human Life | Thomas Nagel | Buch | Englisch

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Beschreibung

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.

Über den Autor

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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2023
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Importe , Philosophie
Jahrhundert:	Antike
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Buch
ISBN-13:	9780197681671
ISBN-10:	0197681670
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Nagel, Thomas
Hersteller:	Oxford University Press OUP USA
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	216 x 144 x 32 mm
Von/Mit:	Thomas Nagel
Erscheinungsdatum:	29.11.2023
Gewicht:	0,462 kg