Thomas Nagel is University Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy and the School of Law at NYU. His extensive writings deal with ethics, political theory, philosophy of mind, epistemology, and the meaning of life. Among his books are The View from Nowhere and Mind and Cosmos.
There is much to be savoured in this entertaining and fascinating compendium of views that have done so much to shape the philosophical landscape over the past half century and for which [Nagel] is justly renowned. * A.W. Moore, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews * Most striking is the humanity that seeps through Nagel's writing and, especially, through his eulogistic essays. Analytic philosophy has a reputation for being complex and occasionally inscrutable, but all of the essays in this collection are addressed to nonspecialists and the result is an approachable foray into contemporary analytic epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and political philosophy. Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faulty; general readers. * Choice *