Un signo inquietante de nuestra época es la insistencia creciente de relativistas y subjetivistas en la negación de la universalidad de la razón. No se trata sólo de un estilo intelectual o de una muestra desafortunada de sofis...
La suerte es importante en prácticamente todas las esferas de nuestra vida, incluida la felicidad. Pero, con todo, tendemos a considerar injusto que pueda inmiscuirse en el juicio moral. Y esto se debe a que la moral se define, precisamente por...
En aquesta succinta introducció, Thomas Nagel compendia les grans qüestions filosòfiques per tal de fer-les accessibles a lectors disposats a pensar pel seu compte. L'autor, fidel al seu estil àgil i agosarat, defuig l'erudici&oa...
First published in 1997. Area Child Protection Committees are at the heart of interagency child protection services in Britain. Drawing on original research, this book provides the first detailed analysis of ACPs and how they operate. The authors examine...
Once the sore throat and aching limbs of a cold begin, what you need is something that will quickly relieve the symptoms and get you back onto the road to recovery. Cayenne pepper is the very thing.Although there are many over the counter products that...
High blood pressure has become known as, "the silent killer," for a very good reason. It is estimated that around one third of all adults suffer from high blood pressure. Even more concerning is the fact that a great deal of them will be unaware...
The modern materialist approach to life has conspicuously failed to explain such central mind-related features of our world as consciousness, intentionality, meaning, and value. This failure to account for something so integral to nature as mind, argues...
Thomas 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, war and political power are shown to lead to more...
This volume of LNCS contains papers presented at the 5th European Perf- mance Engineering Workshop held in Palma de Mallorca during September 24?25, 2008. The workshopis trulyinternational;the Europeanpartofthe title refersonly to its location. Papers...
Over 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 reviews offers Nagelâs opinionated views...
Ethical concepts are, or purport to be, normative. They make claims on us: they command, oblige, recommend, or guide. Or at least when we invoke them, we make claims on one another; but where does their authority over us - or ours over one another - come...
Derived from Thomas Nagel's Locke Lectures, Equality and Partiality proposes a nonutopian account of political legitimacy, based on the need to accommodate both personal and impersonal motives in any credible moral theory, and therefore in any political...
In 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 beginning student.
Human beings have the unique ability to view the world in a detached way: We can think about the world in terms that transcend our own experience or interest, and consider the world from a vantage point that is, in Nagel's words, "nowhere in particular"....
Should the hard questions of philosophy matter to ordinary people? In this down-to-earth, nonhistorical guide, Thomas Nagel, the distinguished author of Mortal Questions and The View From Nowhere, brings philosophical problems to life, revealing in vivid,...
Just 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 altruism is included among the basic rational requirement...