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. 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. Among the figures discussed are Peter Singer, Alvin Plantinga, Christine Korsgaard, Tony Judt, Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Iris Murdoch, T. M. Scanlon, Ronald Dworkin, Daniel Kahneman, Jonathan Haidt, Joshua Greene, and Daniel Dennett. An accessible overview of some of the significant philosophy of our time.
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
