分析哲学与人类生活

by Thomas Nagel, 托马斯·内格尔, 胡昂俊 (Translator)

哲学大师托马斯·内格尔带你读懂分析哲学的真正乐趣，超越不加反思的生活。

这本书收集了托马斯·内格尔近年来对一些基本话题的哲学思考:伦理学、道德心理学、科学与宗教、死亡、大屠杀和心灵的形而上学。书中讨论的哲学家包括彼得·辛格、阿尔文·普兰廷加、克里斯汀·科斯加德、托尼·朱特、伊丽莎白·安斯科姆、菲利帕·富特、艾里斯·默多克、T. M. 斯坎伦、罗纳德·德沃金、塞缪尔·舍夫勒、丹尼尔·卡尼曼、乔纳森·海特、约书亚·格林和丹尼尔·丹尼特。

内格尔始终捍卫道德真理的现实主义解释，并抵制将伦理学纳入心理学和进化理论的简化尝试。他还捍卫道德内容的多元概念与功利主义相对立，其中包括义务论的要素，如权利和特殊责任。现实主义的观点也反映了他对形而上学和认识论问题的讨论。

这本书以内格尔对在职业生涯中认识的哲学家的敬意结束。本书的文章都是写给普通读者的，吸引所有试图理解当下人类生活、人类价值观以及对我们如何融入世界感兴趣的人。

Genres: Philosophy

320 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2025

About the author

Thomas Nagel is an American philosopher, currently University Professor and Professor of Philosophy and Law at New York University, where he has taught since 1980. His main areas of philosophical interest are philosophy of mind, political philosophy and ethics. He is well-known for his critique of reductionist accounts of the mind in his essay "What Is it Like to Be a Bat?" (1974), and for his contributions to deontological and liberal moral and political theory in The Possibility of Altruism (1970) and subsequent writings.

Thomas Nagel was born to a Jewish family in Belgrade, Yugoslavia (now Serbia). He received a BA from Cornell University in 1958, a BPhil from Oxford University in 1960, and a PhD from Harvard University in 1963 under the supervision of John Rawls. Before settling in New York, Nagel taught briefly at the University of California, Berkeley (from 1963 to 1966) and at Princeton University (from 1966 to 1980), where he trained many well-known philosophers including Susan Wolf, Shelly Kagan, and Samuel Scheffler, who is now his colleague at NYU. In 2006, he was made a member of the American Philosophical Society.

Nagel is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, and has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 2008, he was awarded a Rolf Schock Prize for his work in philosophy, the Balzan prize, and the honorary degree of Doctor of Letters from Oxford University.

Reviews

[John · Rating 3 out of 5]

Finally a product for people burning to know, “what are some summaries of random-ass books Thomas Nagel has read?”

[Conner Miller · Rating 4 out of 5]

Reading Nagel’s thoughts on random-ass books that he has read has been a riveting experience. I expected something different when I first got the book (I don’t know, something more vitalist or existentialist I guess?), but it was still worth the read.

[Adam]

Collection of reviews and articles on philosophy.