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The Possibility of Altruism by Thomas Nagel
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €34.39Just 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: €19.03Booksplease Price: €16.99Thomas 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
RRP: €148.75Booksplease Price: €131.38In 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
RRP: €46.40Booksplease Price: €39.27Much 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
RRP: €66.64Booksplease Price: €62.97This 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
RRP: €45.80Booksplease Price: €30.49In 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... -
The Last Word by Thomas Nagel 9780195108347
RRP: €148.75Booksplease Price: €99.58If there is such a thing as reason, it has to be universal - it must work the same way for everyone. Reason must reflect objective principles whose validity is independent of our point of view. To... -
Thomas Nagel by Alan Thomas 9781844650354
RRP: €44.02Booksplease Price: €37.58In 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... -
What Is It Like to Be a Bat? by Thomas Nagel 9780197752791
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €11.94A 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: €54.81Thomas 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: €24.98Booksplease Price: €19.39This 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... -
Concealment and Exposure: And Other Essays by Thomas Nagel 9780195179774
RRP: €51.75Booksplease Price: €34.58Thomas 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... -
Computational Geotechnics: Storage of Energy Carriers by Thomas Nagel 9783319569604
Booksplease Price: €55.07In 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: €20.81Booksplease Price: €19.15This 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
RRP: €90.44Booksplease Price: €62.12Over 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
RRP: €111.86Booksplease Price: €84.07A 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
RRP: €48.78Booksplease Price: €39.27This 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 9780195174373
RRP: €48.78Booksplease Price: €34.57In 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... -
What Does It All Mean?: A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy by Thomas Nagel 9780195052923
RRP: €47.59Booksplease Price: €43.76Most 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... -
Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False by Thomas Nagel
RRP: €38.66Booksplease Price: €35.31In 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: €42.84Booksplease Price: €32.02Apologies 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 9780871404091
RRP: €26.17Booksplease Price: €24.42Whether framed philosophically as "Why is there a world rather than nothing at all?" or more colloquially as "But, Mommy, who made God?" the metaphysical mystery about how we came into existence... -
Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story by Jim Holt
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €13.30Tackling 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: €45.10Booksplease Price: €21.46Apologies 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: €53.54Booksplease Price: €48.72Providing 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... -
Distributive Justice and Taxation Jorgen Pedersen (Universitetet i Bergen, Norway) 9780367321246
RRP: €154.70Booksplease Price: €137.65Providing 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: €22.60Booksplease Price: €19.14How 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: €35.70Booksplease Price: €34.33In 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 Search of the Soul: A Philosophical Essay by John Cottingham
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €14.59How 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... -
In Defense of Moral Luck: Why Luck Often Affects Praiseworthiness and Blameworthiness by Robert J. Hartman
RRP: €57.11Booksplease Price: €51.78The 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: €15.46Booksplease Price: €12.70A 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: €65.45Booksplease Price: €52.60During the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, great new trends of Jewish thought emerged whose widely varied representatives--Kabbalists, philosophers, and astrologers--each claimed that their... -
On Inequality by Harry G. Frankfurt 9780691167145
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €15.49Economic 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... -
On Human Nature by Roger Scruton 9780691168753
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €20.09A 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... -
In the Shadow of Justice: Postwar Liberalism and the Remaking of Political Philosophy by Katrina Forrester
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €20.44A 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: €41.65Booksplease Price: €34.75"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
Booksplease Price: €39.70What 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: €17.84Booksplease Price: €14.73In 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... -
The Lives of Animals by J. M. Coetzee 9780691173900
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €12.70The 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... -
On Sacrifice by Moshe Halbertal
RRP: €21.41Booksplease Price: €18.23The 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,...