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Concealment and Exposure: And Other Essays

By Thomas Nagel

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
2002
ISBN
019515293X, 9780195152937
Google Books ID
tifjzFmZf2QC
Open Library ID
OL7390116M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
663 kB (678417 bytes)
Edition
4
Pages
254\254
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

Thomas Nagel is widely recognized as one of the top American philosophers working today. Reflecting the diversity of his many philosophical preoccupations, this volume is a collection of his most recent critical essays and reviews. The first section, Public and Private, focuses on the notion of privacy in the context of social and political issues, such as the impeachment of President Clinton. The second section, Right and Wrong, discusses moral, political and legal theory, and includes pieces on John Rawls, G.A. Cohen, and T.M. Scanlon, among others. The final section, Mind and Reality, features discussions of Richard Rorty, Donald Davidson, and the Sokal hoax, and closes with a substantial new essay on the mind-body problem. Written with characteristic rigor, these pieces reveal the intellectual passion underlying the incisive analysis for which Nagel is known.

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