Thomas Nagel

Thomas Nagel’s books include The View from Nowhere and Secular Philosophy and the Religious Temperament. He is the University Professor of Philosophy and Law at NYU.

In the LRB Archive:

• In whose interest?: Euthanasia · 6 October 2011

  • Assisted Death: A Study in Ethics and Law by L.W. Sumner

• Into the Mental Basement: Science and Religion · 19 August 2010

  • Natural Reflections: Human Cognition at the Nexus of Science and Religion by Barbara Herrnstein Smith

• The I in Me: I and Me · 5 November 2009

  • Selves: An Essay in Revisionary Metaphysics by Galen Strawson

• The View from Here and Now: A Tribute to Bernard Williams · 11 May 2006

  • The Sense of the Past: Essays in the History of Philosophy by Bernard Williams, edited by Myles Burnyeat
  • In the Beginning Was the Deed: Realism and Moralism in Political Argument by Bernard Williams, edited by Geoffrey Hawthorn
  • Philosophy as a Humanistic Discipline by Bernard Williams, edited by A.W. Moore

• The Central Questions: H.L.A. Hart · 3 February 2005

  • A Life of H.L.A. Hart: The Nightmare and the Noble Dream by Nicola Lacey

• What is it about lemons?: Barry Stroud · 20 September 2001

  • The Quest for Reality: Subjectivism and the Metaphysics of Colour by Barry Stroud

• Information Cocoons: The internet · 5 July 2001

  • republic.com by Cass Sunstein

• Rock Bottom: legislation · 14 October 1999

  • The Dignity of Legislation by Jeremy Waldron

• Why so cross?: natural selection · 1 April 1999

  • Unweaving the Rainbow by Richard Dawkins
  • The Pattern of Evolution by Niles Eldredge

• One-to-One: What We Owe to Each Other by T.M. Scanlon · 4 February 1999

  • What We Owe to Each Other by T.M. Scanlon

• Getting on with each other · 22 September 1994

  • Ethics in the Public Domain: Essays in the Morality of Law and Politics by Joseph Raz

• On and off the page · 25 July 1991

  • Isaiah Berlin: A Celebration by Edna Margalit and Avishai Margalit

• The Egocentric Predicament · 18 May 1989

  • The False Prison: A Study of the Development of Wittgenstein’s Philosophy, Vol. II by David Pears

• Is that you, James? · 1 October 1987

  • Philosophy and the Brain by J.Z. Young
  • Freedom and Belief by Galen Strawson
  • The Oxford Companion to the Mind edited by Richard Gregory

• Reading the law · 18 September 1986

  • Law’s Empire by Ronald Dworkin

• The Excessive Demands of Impartiality · 1 July 1982

  • Moral Thinking: Its Levels, Method and Point by R.M. Hare

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