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The Possibility of Altruism by Thomas Nagel
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02Just as there are rational requirements on thought, there are rational requirements on action. This book defends a conception of ethics, and a related conception of human nature, according to which... -
Mortal Questions by Thomas Nagel
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £14.34Thomas 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, social inequality,... -
Thomas Nagel by Alan Thomas 9780773535602
Booksplease Price: £27.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorAlan Thomas is senior lecturer in philosophy at the University of Kent.Reviews"Nagel richly deserves to... -
Thomas Nagel by Alan Thomas 9781844650354
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £31.58In the first systematic study of the philosophy of Thomas Nagel, Alan Thomas discusses Nagel's contrast between the "subjective" and the "objective" points of view throughout the various areas of his... -
The View from Nowhere by Thomas Nagel
Booksplease Price: £40.38Much 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 fundamental issue,... -
Equality and Partiality by Thomas Nagel 9780195098396
Booksplease Price: £63.83This collection of essays, based on the Locke Lectures that Nagel delivered at Oxford University in 1990, addresses the conflict between the claims of the group and those of the individual. Nagel... -
The Last Word by Thomas Nagel 9780195149838
Booksplease Price: £41.15In The Last Word, Thomas Nagel, a leading philosopher and Professor of Law, presents a sustained defense of reason against the attacks of subjectivism, delivering systematic rebuttals against its... -
What Is It Like to Be a Bat? by Thomas Nagel 9780197752791
Booksplease Price: £11.39A 50th anniversary edition of one of the most widely influential articles of 20th Century philosophy "Consciousness is what makes the mind-body problem really intractable." So begins Thomas... -
Concealment and Exposure: And Other Essays by Thomas Nagel 9780195152937
Booksplease Price: £48.61Thomas 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... -
Concealment and Exposure: And Other Essays by Thomas Nagel 9780195179774
Booksplease Price: £46.96Thomas 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... -
Analytic Philosophy and Human Life by Thomas Nagel 9780197681671
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £19.94This 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... -
Computational Geotechnics: Storage of Energy Carriers by Thomas Nagel 9783319569604
Booksplease Price: £46.28In this book, effective computational methods to facilitate those pivotal simulations using open-source software are introduced and discussed with a special focus on the coupled thermo-mechanical... -
Moral Feelings, Moral Reality, and Moral Progress by Thomas Nagel 9780197690888
RRP: £17.49Booksplease Price: £16.51This volume presents two closely related essays by Thomas Nagel: "Gut Feelings and Moral Knowledge" and "Moral Reality and Moral Progress." Both essays are concerned with moral epistemology and our... -
Other Minds: Critical Essays 1969-1994 by Thomas Nagel 9780195132465
Booksplease Price: £79.95Over the past twenty-five years, Thomas Nagel has played a major role in the philosophico-biological debate on subjectivity and consciousness. This extensive collection of published essays and... -
Other Minds: Critical Essays 1969-1994 by Thomas Nagel 9780195090086
Booksplease Price: £119.95A collection of previously published essays and reviews by the internationally acclaimed writer on Philosophy, Thomas Nagel. It contains writings on philosophy of mind and on ethics and political... -
Secular Philosophy and the Religious Temperament: Essays 2002-2008 by Thomas Nagel 9780195394115
Booksplease Price: £45.60This volume collects recent essays and reviews by Thomas Nagel in three subject areas. The first section, including the title essay, is concerned with religious belief and some of the philosophical... -
What Does It All Mean?: A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy by Thomas Nagel 9780195052923
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £28.91Most people think about philosophical problems without realizing it: What really exists? Can we know anything? Is anything really right or wrong? Does life have any meaning? Is death the end of... -
What Does It All Mean?: A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy by Thomas Nagel 9780195174373
RRP: £40.99Booksplease Price: £31.62In this cogent and accessible introduction to philosophy, the distinguished author of Mortal Questions and The View From Nowhere sets forth the central problems of philosophical inquiry for the... -
Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False by Thomas Nagel
RRP: £32.49Booksplease Price: £30.85In 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 animal minds and... -
From Eden to Interstellar Space: Thomas Nagel, Biblical Hermeneutics, and the Search for "the True Extent of Reality" by Sarah Anne Beattie 9798385205394
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £27.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798385205394Author Sarah Anne BeattieFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Pickwick... -
Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story by Jim Holt
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.06Tackling the "darkest question in all of philosophy" with "raffish erudition" (Dwight Garner, New York Times), author Jim Holt explores the greatest metaphysical mystery of all: why is there... -
Animal Poetry. The Bat is dun, with wrinkled Wings and Man and Bat in connection with Thomas Nagel's essay What is it like to be a bat? by Judith Leitermann 9783668270602
RRP: £22.50Booksplease Price: £18.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783668270602Author Judith LeitermannFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint Grin PublishingPublisher... -
Distributive Justice and Taxation by Jorgen Pedersen
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24Providing a thorough examination of distributive justice, Distributive Justice and Taxation presents and discusses different theories of what constitutes a just society, and how goods should be... -
In Search of the Soul: A Philosophical Essay by John Cottingham 9780691174426
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.28How our beliefs about the soul have developed through the ages, and why an understanding of it still matters todayThe concept of the soul has been a recurring area of exploration since ancient times... -
Surviving Death by Mark Johnston 9780691130132
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £27.03In this extraordinary book, Mark Johnston sets out a new understanding of personal identity and the self, thereby providing a purely naturalistic account of surviving death. Death threatens our sense... -
In Defense of Moral Luck: Why Luck Often Affects Praiseworthiness and Blameworthiness by Robert J. Hartman
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £44.79The problem of moral luck is that there is a contradiction in our common sense ideas about moral responsibility. In one strand of our thinking, we believe that a person can become more blameworthy by... -
On Human Nature by Roger Scruton
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.18A brief, radical defense of human uniqueness from acclaimed philosopher Roger ScrutonIn this short book, acclaimed writer and philosopher Roger Scruton presents an original and radical defense of... -
Concealment and Revelation: Esotericism in Jewish Thought and its Philosophical Implications by Moshe Halbertal 9780691125718
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £46.54During the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, great new trends of Jewish thought emerged whose widely varied representatives--Kabbalists, philosophers, and astrologers--each claimed that their... -
In Search of the Soul: A Philosophical Essay by John Cottingham
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.46How our beliefs about the soul have developed through the ages, and why an understanding of it still matters todayThe concept of the soul has been a recurring area of exploration since ancient times... -
On Human Nature by Roger Scruton 9780691168753
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.05A brief, radical defense of human uniqueness from acclaimed philosopher Roger Scruton In this short book, acclaimed writer and philosopher Roger Scruton presents an original and radical defense of... -
On Inequality by Harry G. Frankfurt 9780691167145
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.23Economic inequality is one of the most divisive issues of our time. Yet few would argue that inequality is a greater evil than poverty. The poor suffer because they don't have enough, not because... -
In the Shadow of Justice: Postwar Liberalism and the Remaking of Political Philosophy by Katrina Forrester
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.35A bold new history of postwar political philosophy and of how John Rawls transformed modern liberalismIn the Shadow of Justice tells the story of how liberal political philosophy was transformed in... -
In the Shadow of Justice: Postwar Liberalism and the Remaking of Political Philosophy by Katrina Forrester 9780691163086
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £31.60"A forceful, encyclopedic study."-Michael Eric Dyson, New York Times A history of how political philosophy was recast by the rise of postwar liberalism and irrevocably changed by John Rawls's A... -
Philosophy as a Humanistic Discipline by Bernard Williams
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £29.02What can--and what can't--philosophy do? What are its ethical risks--and its possible rewards? How does it differ from science? In Philosophy as a Humanistic Discipline, Bernard Williams addresses... -
The Soul of the World by Roger Scruton
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.55In The Soul of the World, renowned philosopher Roger Scruton defends the experience of the sacred against today's fashionable forms of atheism. He argues that our personal relationships, moral... -
Aristotle's De Motu Animalium by Martha C. Nussbaum
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £40.43Available for the first time in paperback, this volume contains text with translation of De Motu Animalium, Aristotle's attempt to lay the groundwork for a general theory of the explanation of animal... -
On Sacrifice by Moshe Halbertal
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £16.28The idea and practice of sacrifice play a profound role in religion, ethics, and politics. In this brief book, philosopher Moshe Halbertal explores the meaning and implications of sacrifice,... -
On Being Me: A Personal Invitation to Philosophy by J. David Velleman 9780691200958
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.56A moral philosopher's meditations on some of life's most important questionsWe've all had to puzzle over such profound matters as birth, death, regret, free will, agency, and love. How might... -
In Our Name: The Ethics of Democracy by Eric Anthony Beerbohm 9780691154619
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £46.84When a government in a democracy acts in our name, are we, as citizens, responsible for those acts? What if the government commits a moral crime? The protestor's slogan--"Not in our name!"--testifies... -
The Lives of Animals by J. M. Coetzee 9780691173900
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £10.46The idea of human cruelty to animals so consumes novelist Elizabeth Costello in her later years that she can no longer look another person in the eye: humans, especially meat-eating ones, seem to her...