Thomas Nagel presents a sustained defence of reason against the attacks of subjectivism, delivering systematic rebuttals of relativistic claims with respect to language, logic, science and ethics.

Thomas Nagel's Mortal Questions explores some fundamental issues concerning the meaning, nature and value of human life.

The philosophical interest of John Rawls' defining intellectual quality and moral motivation are already visible in his defense of a conception of faith as membership with all other persons in a spiritual community with one another and with God.

Much philosophical debate has attempted to reconcile the human capacity to view the world both objectively and subjectively. Thomas Nagel's book tackles this fundamental issue, arguing that our divided nature is the root of a whole range of philosophical problems.

Provides information on how taxes can only be evaluated as part of the overall system of property rights that they help to create. This book takes up ethical issues about individual liberty, interpersonal obligation, and both collective and personal responsibility. It forces us to reconsider how our tax policy shapes our system of property rights.

Based on the Locke Lectures that Nagel delivered at Oxford University in 1990, this collection of essays addresses the conflict between the claims of the group and those of the individual.

Based on the John Locke Lectures which Thomas Nagel delivered at Oxford in 1990, this book addresses a fundamental problem in moral and political theory: the conflict between the claims of the group and those of the individual.

A collection of previously published essays and reviews, containing writings on the philosophy of mind, ethics and political philosophy from the past 25 years.

Since the early 1970s, Thomas Nagel has played a major role in the philosophico-biological debate on subjectivity and consciousness. This collection of published essays and reviews offers Nagel's opinionated views on the philosophy of mind, epistemology and political philosophy

A collection of articles that focuses on moral questions about war. It covers a range of topics from several points of view by writers from the fields of political science, philosophy, and law.

Most people think about philosophical problems without realizing it. Introducing the uninitiated to the world of philosophical inquiry, this book examines nine philosophical problems fundamental to everyday living. It contains short introduction to the methods of philosophy for those with a taste for abstract ideas and theoretical arguments.

This work presents a sustained defence of reason against the attacks of subjectivism, delivering systematic rebuttals of relativistic claims with respect to language, logic, science and ethics.