Thomas Nagel is a leading figure in philosophy, now enjoying the title of university professor at New York University, a testament to the scope and influence of his work. His 1974 essay “What Is It ...

Alert, David Brooks, alert! Here is an entry in your annual Sidney Awards for best magazine essays of the year: Andy Ferguson’s wonderful piece about the philosopher Thomas Nagel, and how, despite ...

Thomas Nagel is no stranger to controversy when it comes to arguments over intelligent design, Darwinism and evolution. His criticism of the federal court's decision in Kitzmiller vs. Dover Area ...

Thomas Nagel, in Mind and Cosmos, despairs of finding a place for values in the world as it is described by physical and biological science. This gives me today's theme. (See my last two posts — here ...

Notes from the New Yorker staff on their literary engagements of the week. Reading Janet Malcolm’s essay on the German photographer Thomas Struth (it originally appeared in the magazine, and is ...

This strange and absorbing book sets out to undermine the central metaphysical ambition which has dominated philosophy since the 17th century – that of reaching what Bernard Williams calls an ...

Bernard Williams had a very large mind. To read these three posthumously published collections of essays (there will be a fourth, on opera) is an overwhelming reminder of his incandescent and ...