Table of Contents

PUBLIC AND PRIVATE; 1. Concealment and Exposure; 2. The Shredding of Public Privacy; 3. Personal Rights and Public Space; 4. Chastity; 5. Nussbaum on Sexual Injustice; 6. Bertrand Russell: A Public Life; RIGHT AND WRONG; 7. The Writing of John Rawls; 8. Rawls and Liberalism; 9. Cohen on Inequality; 10. Justice and Nature; 11. Raz on Liberty and Law; 12. Waldron on Law and Politics; 13. Scanlon's Moral Theory; MIND AND REALITY; 14. Rorty's Pragmatism; 15. The Sleep of Reason; 16. Davidson's New Cogito; 17. Stroud and the Quest for Reality; 18. The Psychophysical Nexus

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The author's last book for Oxford University Press, "The Last Word", was chosen as an Outstanding Academic Book of 1997 by CHOICE.

Reviews

"[A] wonderful book. It is wonderful partly for the further excellent review articles that it adds to the Other Minds archive, and partly for the lively and accessible introduction it provides to Nagel's own thought and intellectual personality...[T]he essays in this volume, taken together, do more than any other philosophical writings known to me to bring out the complex and treacherous truth in the old maxim that the personal is
political."--Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews