Thomas Nagel is Professor of Philosophy and Law at New York University. He is the author of The View from Nowhere, What Does It All Mean?, The Possibility of Altruism, Mortal Questions, Equality and Partiality, and Other Minds: Critical Essays, 1969-1994.

Thomas Nagel is not one of those philosophers afraid to tackle the big issues. He also, rather refreshingly, has what Ludwig Wittgenstein once called "the courage to write a short book". ... I recommend Nagel's book as the intellectual equivalent of a cold shower. ... I find myself persuaded by Nagel that all attempts to subjectivise or relativise logic must enmesh themselves in contraditions.

Thomas Nagel is Professor of Philosophy and Law at New York University. He is the author of The View from Nowhere, What Does It All Mean?, The Possibility of Altruism, Mortal Questions, Equality and Partiality, and Other Minds: Critical Essays, 1969-1994.

Thomas Nagel is not one of those philosophers afraid to tackle the big issues. He also, rather refreshingly, has what Ludwig Wittgenstein once called "the courage to write a short book". ... I recommend Nagel's book as the intellectual equivalent of a cold shower. ... I find myself persuaded by Nagel that all attempts to subjectivise or relativise logic must enmesh themselves in contraditions.

Thomas Nagel is Professor of Philosophy and Law at New York University. He is the author of The View from Nowhere, What Does It All Mean?, The Possibility of Altruism, Mortal Questions, Equality and Partiality, and Other Minds: Critical Essays, 1969-1994.

Thomas Nagel is not one of those philosophers afraid to tackle the big issues. He also, rather refreshingly, has what Ludwig Wittgenstein once called "the courage to write a short book". ... I recommend Nagel's book as the intellectual equivalent of a cold shower. ... I find myself persuaded by Nagel that all attempts to subjectivise or relativise logic must enmesh themselves in contraditions.