| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 229 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Oxford University Press on-line
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Oxford University Press on-line.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
1. Philosophy of mind: Freud's anthropomorphism -- Freud's permanent revolution -- Wittgenstein: the egocentric predicament -- Chomsky: Linguistics and epistemology -- Fodor: the boundaries of inner space -- Armstrong on the mind -- Dennett: content and consciousness -- Dennett: consciousness dissolved -- O'Shaughnessy: the will -- Searle: why we are not computers -- 2. Ethics and political philosophy: Aristotle on Eudaimonia -- Rawls on justice -- Nozick: libertarianism without foundations -- Hare: moral thinking -- Hare: the foundations of impartiality -- Williams: one thought too many -- Williams: resisting ethical theory -- Schelling: the price of life -- Schelling: personal identity and self-command -- Dworkin: interpretation and the law -- MacIntyre versus the Enlightenment -- Kolakowski: modernity and the devil. |
| Summary |
Other Minds gathers Nagel's most important critical essays and reviews on the philosophy of mind, ethics, and political philosophy. The pieces here discuss philosophers from Aristotle to Wittgenstein, as well as contemporary legal and political theorists like Robert Nozick and Ronald Dworkin. Also included are essays tracing Nagel's ongoing participation in debates surrounding the mind-body problem - lucid, opinionated responses to Daniel Dennett, John Searle, and others. Running through Other Minds is Nagel's overriding conviction that the most compelling intellectual issues of our day - from the scientific foundations of Freudian theory to the vicissitudes of judicial interpretation - are essentially philosophical problems. Vital, accessible, and controversial, these writings represent the best of one of our leading thinkers. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Philosophy of mind.
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Philosophy of mind. |
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Ethics.
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Ethics. |
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Ethics, Modern -- 20th century.
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Ethics, Modern. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Political science -- Philosophy.
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Political science -- Philosophy. |
| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780195090086 (DLC) 94031621 (OCoLC)30914629 |
| ISBN |
9780195344721 (electronic book) |
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0195344723 (electronic book) |
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9780195090086 |
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019509008X (acid-free paper) |
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