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Thomas Nagel, Analytic Philosophy and Human Life, Oxford University Press, 2023, 291pp., $29.95 (hbk), ISBN 9780197681671.
Reviewed by A.W. Moore, University of Oxford
This is a review of a book that itself consists mostly of reviews, between them covering a vast philosophical terrain. In writing it I have therefore had little choice, if not to adopt a view from nowhere, then at least to adopt a bird’s eye view. There are several major recurring themes in the book that are clearly visible from up there. In due course I shall focus on what I take to be the most prominent of these. But first I want to give some indication of the book’s scope and of why it is so engaging.
The reviews are divided into four parts. The titles of these four parts—‘Life and Death’, ‘Ethics’, ‘Moral Psychology’, and ‘Reality’—themselves bear witness to its scope. They are…
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