Mortal Questions

???… a fine achievement. Few professional philosophers have written so rationally and agreeably on such a variety of difficult and serious problems.??? P. F. Strawson, New York Review of Books ???These essays … convey to an interested non-philosopher a real sense of the excitement and significance of philosophical enquiry.??? R. A. Duff, The Literary Review ???Thomas Nagel writes with all the clarity and all the plainness of style that analytical philosophers have always admired … if anyone can seize and keep the general reader??’s attention, it must be Thomas Nagel with this book.??? New Statesman ‘… a fine achievement. Few professional philosophers have written so rationally and agreeably on such a variety of difficult and serious problems.’ P. F. Strawson, New York Review of Books ‘These essays … convey to an interested non-philosopher a real sense of the excitement and significance of philosophical enquiry.’ R. A. Duff, The Literary Review ‘Thomas Nagel writes with all the clarity and all the plainness of style that analytical philosophers have always admired … if anyone can seize and keep the general reader’s attention, it must be Thomas Nagel with this book.’ New Statesman

Liam Murphy teaches law and philosophy at New York University. He is the author of Moral Demands in Nonideal Theory.

Thomas Nagel teaches law and philosophy at New York University. He is the author of Moral Questions, Equality and Partiality, and The Last Word.