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Thomas Nagel is University Professor Emeritus at NYU. He is the author of The View From Nowhere, Mortal Questions, and Mind and Cosmos, among other books. (March 2019)
What We Owe a Rabbit
Christine Korsgaard’s ‘Fellow Creatures: Our Obligations to the Other Animals’
Fellow Creatures: Our Obligations to the Other Animals
by Christine M. Korsgaard
March 21, 2019 issue
As If!
Kwame Anthony Appiah’s ‘As If: Idealization and Ideals’
As If: Idealization and Ideals
by Kwame Anthony Appiah
April 5, 2018 issue
A Gruesome Ghost Dance
Theresienstadt 1941–1945: The Face of a Coerced Community
by H. G. Adler, translated from the German by Belinda Cooper, with an afterword by Jeremy Adler
September 28, 2017 issue
Is Consciousness an Illusion?
‘From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds’ by Daniel C. Dennett
From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds
by Daniel C. Dennett
March 9, 2017 issue
How They Wrestled with the New
The world of Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Leibniz, and Hume
The Dream of Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Philosophy
by Anthony Gottlieb
September 29, 2016 issue
After You’ve Gone
Death and the Afterlife
by Samuel Scheffler, edited and with an introduction by Niko Kolodny, and with commentaries by Susan Wolf, Harry G. Frankfurt, Seana Valentine Shiffrin, and Niko Kolodny
January 9, 2014 issue
The Taste for Being Moral
How do we combine the external descriptive view of ourselves provided by empirical science with the active internal engagement of real life?
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
by Jonathan Haidt
Dignity: Its History and Meaning
by Michael Rosen
December 6, 2012 issue
A Philosopher Defends Religion
Alvin Plantinga’s ‘Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism’
Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism
by Alvin Plantinga
September 27, 2012 issue
It’s Revolting!
Yuck! The Nature and Moral Significance of Disgust
by Daniel Kelly
The Meaning of Disgust
by Colin McGinn
November 24, 2011 issue
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