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Mortal Questions
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, …
The View from Nowhere
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 …
Sinn og kosmos
Den moderne, materialistiske tilnærmingen til livet har åpenlyst feilet med hensyn til å forklare sentrale sinnsrelaterte egenskaper i vår verden - slik som bevissthet, …
Mind and Cosmos
In Mind and Cosmos Thomas Nagel argues that the widely accepted world view of materialist naturalism is untenable. The mind-body problem cannot be confined to the relation between …
Internal Reasons
A collection of the most important recent work on reasons for action and the question "why be moral?"Some of the most challenging questions in philosophical ethics concern the …
What Does It All Mean?
Discusses knowledge, the mind-body problem, meaning, free will, ethics, justice, and death
Hvordan er det at være en flagermus?
Bevidstheden er et besynderligt fænomen. Den er omnipotent, men kan ikke ses. Uanset mængden af forskning i synapser og kemiske tilstande i hjernen lader vi ikke til at nærme os …
The Myth of Ownership
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 …
Mortal Questions
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, …
A Brief Inquiry into the Meaning of Sin and Faith
John Rawls never published anything about his own religious beliefs, but after his death two texts were discovered which shed extraordinary light on the subject. A Brief Inquiry …
Life, Death, and Meaning
Do our lives have meaning? Should we create more people? Is death bad? Should we commit suicide? Would it be better to be immortal? Should we be optimistic or pessimistic? Since …