Other minds: critical essays 1969-1994

238 Pages·12.385 MB·English

by  Nagel, Thomas

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OTHER MINDS
CRITICAL ESSAYS 1969-1994
THOMAS NAGEL
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1995
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Nagel, Thomas.
Other minds : critical essays, 1969—1994 / Thomas Nagel.
p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-19-509008-X
1. Philosophy of mind. 2. Ethics. 3. Ethics, Modern—20th
century. 4. Political science—Philosophy. I. Title.
B945.N333074 1995
128'.2—dc20 94-3162
The author gratefully acknowledges the support of the Filomen D'Agostino and
Max E. Greenberg Faculty Research Fund of New York University Law School.
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Carlos Nino
1943-1993
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Contents
Introduction: The Philosophical Culture 3
I: PHILOSOPHY OF MIND
1. Freud's Anthropomorphism 13
2. Freud's Permanent Revolution 26
3. Wittgenstein: The Egocentric Predicament 45
4. Chomsky: Linguistics and Epistemology 56
5. Fodor: The Boundaries of Inner Space 65
6. Armstrong on the Mind 72
7. Dennett: Content and Consciousness 82
8. Dennett: Consciousness Dissolved 86
9. O'Shaughnessy: The Will 90
10. Searle: Why We Are Not Computers 96
II: ETHICS AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
11. Aristotle on Eudaimonia 113
12. Rawls on Justice 121
13. Nozick: Libertarianism without Foundations 137
14. Hare: Moral Thinking 150
15. Hare: The Foundations of Impartiality 156
16. Williams: One Thought Too Many 167
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17. Williams: Resisting Ethical Theory 174
18. Schelling: The Price of Life 183
19. Schelling: Personal Identity and Self-Command 188
20. Dworkin: Interpretation and the Law 194
21. Maclntyre versus the Enlightenment 203
22. Kolakowski: Modernity and the Devil 210
Index 215
OTHER MINDS