Analytic philosophy and human life /
"This book collects Thomas Nagel's recent philosophical reflections on topics of fundamental interest: ethics, moral psychology, science and religion, death and the Holocaust, and the metaphysics of mind. Among the figures discussed are Peter Singer, Alvin Plantinga, Christine Korsgaard, E...
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Table of Contents:
- Analytic philosophy and human life
- Life and death Tony Judt: Life and memory
- After we've gone
- Can we survive?
- Assistance in dying
- Theresienstadt
- Ethics Peter Singer and you
- Effective altruism
- Korsgaard, Kant, and our fellow creatures
- Regret and its limits
- Four women
- Law, morality, and truth
- The illusion of tax fairness
- Moral psychology Scanlon on the reality of reasons
- Kahneman's thinking
- The cortex and the trolly problem
- Modular morality
- Fictions and ideals
- Reality The core of Mind and cosmos
- Plantinga on science and religion
- Is metaphysics possible?
- Creators of the modern mind
- Dennett's illusions
- Tributes Betsy Dworkin 1922-2000
- Robert Nozick 1938-2002
- John Rawls 1921-2002
- Bernard Williams 1929-2003
- Donald Davidson 1917-2003
- Peter Strawson 1919-2006
- Ronald Dworkin 2006
- John Searle 2009
- Ronald Dworkin 1931-2013
- Barry Stroud 1935-2019.