Table of Contents

Introduction: The Philosophical Culture
I: PHILOSOPHY OF MIND
1.: Freud's Anthropomorphism
2.: Freud's Permanent Revolution
3.: Wittgenstein: The Egocentric Predicament
4.: Chomsky: Linguistics and Epistemology
5.: Fodor: The Boundaries of Inner Space
6.: Armstrong on the Mind
7.: Dennett: Content and Consciousness
8.: Dennett: Consciousness Dissolved
9.: O'Shaughnessy: The Will
10.: Searle: Why We Are Not Computers
II: ETHICS AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
11.: Aristotle on Eudaimonia
12.: Rawls on Justice
13.: Nozick: Libertarianism without Foundations
14.: Hare: Moral Thinking
15.: Hare: The Foundations of Impartiality
16.: Williams: One Thought Too Many
17.: Williams: Resisting Ethical Theory
18.: Schelling: The Price of Life
19.: Schelling: Personal Identity and Self-Command
20.: Dworkin: Interpretation and the Law
21.: MacIntyre versus the Enlightenment
22.: Kolakowski: Modernity and the Devil

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"Nagel's is a mind to be taken seriously."--The Tablet
"...there is something in this book for nearly everyone....it is a book that anyone engaged in these issues should know about, and should be quick to recommend when confronted with questions such as 'what does x think about y'...."--Dan J. Rossini and Staff