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Thomas Nagel ( / ˈneɪɡəl /; born July 4, 1937) is an American philosopher. He is the University Professor of Philosophy and Law Emeritus at New York University, [3] where he taught from 1980 until his retirement in 2016. [4] . His main areas of philosophical interest are political philosophy, ethics and philosophy of mind. [5]
Jul 16, 2013 · The philosopher Thomas Nagel’s new book, “Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False,” restores the primal force of a great old ...
The American philosopher Thomas Nagel was one of the first contemporary moral philosophers to challenge Hume’s thesis that reason alone is incapable of motivating moral action. In The Possibility of Altruism (1969), he argued that, if Hume’s thesis is true, then the ordinary idea of prudence—i.e., the idea….
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Feb 5, 2024 · Thomas Nagel, Moral Feelings, Moral Reality, and Moral Progress. Oxford University Press, 2023. 72 pp., ISBN 9780197690888. BOOK REVIEW; Published: 05 February 2024; Volume 61, pages 357–359, (2024) Cite this article
Jun 29, 2024 · Thomas Nagel. (b. 1937) Quick Reference. (1937– ) American moral and political theorist. Born in the former Yugoslavia, Nagel was educated at Cornell, Oxford, and Harvard. He taught at Princeton from 1966 to 1980, and subsequently at New York University.
THOMAS NAGEL (B.A. Cornell 1958; B.Phil. Oxford 1960; Ph.D. Harvard 1963), University Professor, Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Law. He specializes in Political Philosophy, Ethics, Epistemology, and Philosophy of Mind.
Feb 5, 2024 · Nagel then proceeds to differentiate moral progress from scientific progress, as well as offering a metaphysically robust external conception of moral realism along Platonic lines from a more earthbound, internalist, and secular conception of moral realism.
