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List of works
Nagel, T. (1970) The Possibility of Altruism, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
(Incorporates material from Nagel’s B.Phil. and Ph.D. theses. Focuses on the motivational basis for morality, arguing that altruism is a basic rational requirement on moral action. This first work gives a stronger role to the objective standpoint and its deliverances than does Nagel’s subsequent work in moral philosophy.)
Nagel, T. (1979) Mortal Questions, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
(Essays on a wide variety of topics that were published between 1969 and 1979, including the highly influential ‘Moral Luck’ and ‘What is it like to be a bat?’. Several essays deal with issues of public policy and are motivated by events and policies associated with the Vietnam War.)
Nagel, T., Cohen, M. and Scanlon T. (1980) Marx, Justice and History, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
(Essays by a variety of authors in Philosophy and Public Affairs from 1972 to 1979 that bring together contemporary analytic moral philosophy and Marxist social theory.)
Nagel, T. (1986) The View From Nowhere, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Nagel, T. (1987) What Does It All Mean?, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Nagel, T. (1991) Equality and Partiality, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
(Incorporates Nagel’s 1990 John Locke Lectures. A detailed development of Nagel’s proposal that the central problem of political theory– that of reconciling the conflicts between the individual and society – is posed by the division between these standpoints within each individual and needs to be addressed accordingly.)
Nagel, T. (1995) Other Minds: Critical Essays, 1969–1994, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
(These essays focus on the views of particular philosophers in the philosophy of mind and in ethics and political theory. In the philosophy of mind, Nagel addresses the views of Freud, Wittgenstein, Chomsky, Fodor and Dennett among others. In ethics and political theory, Nagel treats the views of philosophers such as Rawls, Nozick, MacIntyre and Williams as well as Schelling and Kolakowski. The book opens with a fascinating intellectual autobiography entitled ‘Introduction: The Philosophical Culture’.)
References and further reading
Darwall, S. (1987) ‘The View From Nowhere’, Ethics 98: 137–157.
McGinn, C. (1987) ‘The View From Nowhere’, Mind 96: 263–272.
Peacocke, C. (1989) ‘No Resting Place: A Critical Notice of The View From Nowhere by Thomas Nagel’, Philosophical Review 98: 65–82.
Raz, J. (1990) ‘Facing Diversity: The Case of Epistemic Abstinence’, Philosophy and Public Affairs 19: 3–46.
(Criticizes John Rawls’ as well as Nagel’s attempt to accommodate the diversity of views in pluralistic societies with the notion that justified political arrangements and actions require individual consent, §6 of this entry.)
Sedivy, Sonia. Bibliography. Nagel, Thomas (1937–), 1998, doi:10.4324/9780415249126-DD087-1. Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Taylor and Francis, https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/biographical/nagel-thomas-1937/v-1/bibliography/nagel-thomas-1937-bib.
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