June 8, 2021

THOMAS NAGEL - CURRICULUM VITAE

1. Date of Birth July 4, 1937

2. Education
Cornell University 1954-8 B.A. 1958
Corpus Christi College, Oxford 1958-60 B.Phil. 1960
Harvard University 1960-3 Ph.D. 1963

3. Appointments
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley 1963-6
Assistant Professor, Princeton University 1966-9
Associate Professor " 1969-72
Professor " 1972-80
Professor of Philosophy, New York University 1980-
Chairman 1981-6
Professor of Philosophy and Law " 1986-
Fiorello LaGuardia Professor of Law 2001-3
University Professor 2002-13
University Professor Emeritus 2013-

4. Visiting Appointments
Rockefeller University 1973-4
University of Pittsburgh 1976
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico 1977
University of the Witwatersrand 1982
U.C.L.A. 1986-7
All Souls College, Oxford 1990
U. C. Berkeley 2004

5. Lectureships
Tanner Lecturer, Stanford University 1977
Tanner Lecturer, Oxford University 1979
Howison Lecturer, U.C. Berkeley 1987
Thalheimer Lecturer, Johns Hopkins University 1989
John Locke Lecturer, Oxford University 1990
Hempel Lecturer, Princeton University 1995
Whitehead Lecturer, Harvard University 1995
Immanuel Kant Lecturer, Stanford University 1995
Townsend Lecturer, U.C. Berkeley 1999
Storrs Lecturer, Yale University 2004

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6. Fellowships and Awards
Guggenheim Fellowship 1966-7
NSF Fellowship 1968-70
NEH Fellowship 1978-9
NEH Fellowship 1984-5
Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award 2006-9
Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy 2008
Balzan Prize in Moral Philosophy 2008
Rescher Prize for Systematic Philosophy 2021

7. Other
Associate Editor, Philosophy & Public Affairs 1970-82
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 1980-
Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy 1988-
Honorary Fellow of Corpus Christi College, Oxford 1992-
Member of the American Philosophical Society 2006-
D. Litt. (hon.), Oxford 2008
Doctor of Laws (hon.), Harvard 2010
Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Bucharest 2010
Correspondant de l’Academie des Sciences Morales et Politiques de l’Institut de France 2017-

----------------------- PUBLICATIONS ------------------------

I. BOOKS

1. The Possibility of Altruism, Oxford University Press, 1970

Reprinted, Princeton University Press, 1978
Italian translation: La Possibilita Dell'Altruismo, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1994
German translation: Die Möglichkeit des Altruismus, Bodenheim, Philo, 1998
Spanish translation: La posibilidad del altruismo, Mexico, Fondo de Cultura, 2004
Portuguese translation: Lisbon, Centro de Filosofia, Lisbon University
Chinese translation: Shanghai Translation Publishing House
Japanese translation: Keiso Shobo
Persian translation: Tehran, Nagahe Moaser Publishing House, 2016
Romanian translation: Vellant Publishing
Turkish translation: Birlesik/Atif Yayinlari

2. Mortal Questions, Cambridge University Press, 1979

Spanish translation: La Muerte en Cuestion, Mexico, Fondo de Cultura Economica,
1981; revised: Ensayos sobre la Vida Humana, 2000
French translation: Questions Mortelles, Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1983
German translation: Über das Leben, die Seele und den Tod, Königstein, Germany,
Hain, 1984; revised: Letzte Fragen, Bodenheim, Philo, 1996

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 Italian translation: Questioni Mortali, Milan, Il Saggiatore, 1986
Japanese translation: Tokyo, Keiso Shobo, 1989
Romanian translation: Vesnice intrebari, Bucharest, Editura ALL, 1996
Polish translation: Pytania Ostateczne, Warsaw, Aletheia, 1997
Danish translation: Sporgsmal om livet og doden, Copenhagen, Samleren, 1997
Macedonian translation: Skopje, Kultura, 1998
Chinese translation: Shanghai Translation Publishing House, 2002
Greek translation: Polytropon S.A
Hebrew translation: Magnes Press
Persian translation: Tehran, Negahe Moaser Publishing House, 2018
Serbian translation: Sluzbeni Glasnik Publish House
Turkish translation: Say Yayinlari

3. The View from Nowhere, Oxford University Press, 1986

Italian translation: Uno Sguardo da Nessun Luogo, Milan, Il Saggiatore, 1988
German translation: Der Blick von Nirgendwo, Frankfurt, Suhrkamp Verlag, 1992
French translation: Le point de vue de nulle part, Paris, Editions de l'Eclat, 1993
Swedish translation: Utsikten fran ingenstans, Nora, Bokforlaget Nya Doxa, 1993
Spanish translation: Una Vision de Ningun Lugar, Mexico, Fondo de Cultura Economica,
1996
Polish translation: Widok znikad, Warsaw, Aletheia, 1997
Korean translation: Dong Moon Sun, 1998
Greek translation: Athens, Kritiki Publishing Co., 2000
Portuguese translation: Visão a Partir de Lugar Nenhum, São Paolo, Martins Fontes,
2004
Chinese translation: China Renmin University Press
Hebrew translation: Jerusalem, Hebrew University Magnes Press
Romanian translation: Metropolis Press, 2009
Japanese translation: Shunjusha, 2009
Estonian translation: Vaade Eikusagilt, Tallinn, Eesti Keele Sihtasutus, 2015
Turkish translation: Say Yayinlari Dagatin Ltd.

4. What Does It All Mean?  A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy, Oxford University Press,
1987
Greek translation: Themeliode Philosophika Problemata, Athens, Ekdoseis Smile, 1989
Italian translation: Una Brevissima Introduzione alla Filosofia, Milan, Il Saggiatore,
1989
German translation: Was Bedeutet Das Alles?, Stuttgart, Reclam, 1990
Dutch translation: Wat Betekent Het Allemaal?, Amsterdam, Uitgeverij Bert Bakker,
1990
Danish translation: Hvad er meningen med det hele?, Copenhagen, Hans Reitzels Forlag,
1991
Swedish translation: Vad Är Meningen Med Alltihop?, Nora, Bokförlaget Nya Doxa,

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 1991
Slovak translation: Co To Vsetko Znamená, Bratislava, Bradlo, 1991
French translation: Qu'est-ce que Tout Cela Veut Dire?, Paris, Editions de l'éclat, 1993
Japanese translation: Kyoto, Showa Do, 1993
Polish translation: Co to wszystko znaczy?, Warsaw, Wydawnictwo SPACJA, 1993
Hebrew translation: Tel Aviv, Books in the Attic, 1994
Romanian translation: Ce inseamna toate acestea?, Bucharest, Editura ALL, 1994
Slovenian translation: Za kaj sploh gre?, Ljubljana, Republiski Izpitni Center, 1995
Spanish translation: Qué Significa Todo Esto?, Mexico, Fondo de Cultura Economica,
1996
Portuguese translation: Que Quer Dizer Tudo Isto?, Lisbon, Gradiva Publicacoes Ida,
1996
Korean translation: Dong Moon Sun, 1999
Russian translation: Moscow, Idea Press, 2001
Chinese translation: Taiwan, Athena Press, 2002
Lithuanian translation: Baltos Lankos, 2003
Norwegian translation: Hva er meningen?, Libro Forlag, 2003
Turkish translation: Babil Yay inlary, 2004
Chinese translation: Beijing, The Press of Contemporary China, 2005
Serbo-Croatian translation: O cemu je zapravo rec?, Belgrade, Sluzbeni Glasnik, 2005
Korean translation: Seoul, Kungree Press, 2012
Romanian translation: Ce inseamna, oare, toate acestea?, Bucharest, Editura Humanitas,
2014
Catalan translation: Quin Sentit Te Tot Plegat, Obrador Edendum, 2014
Persian translation: 2014
Arabic translation: Dar Souaal
Simplified Chinese translation: CITIC Press Corporation, 2016
Turkish translation: Her Sey Ne Anlama Geliyor Istanbul, Say Yayinlary
Vietnamese translation: General Publishing House of Ho Chi Minh City
Estonian translation: Postimees

5. Equality and Partiality, Oxford University Press, 1991

Italian translation: I Paradossi dell' Uguaglianza, Milan, Il Saggiatore, 1993
French translation: Egalité et Partialité, Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1994
German translation: Gleichheit und Parteilichkeit, Paderborn, Verlag Ferdinand
Schöningh, 1994
Spanish translation: Igualdad y parcialidad, Barcelona, Ediciones Paidos Ibérica, 1996
Greek translation: Athens, Kritiki Publishing Co.
Persian translation: 2015
Chinese translation: The Commercial Press, 2016

6. Die Grenzen der Objektivität, (translated essays) Stuttgart, Reclam, 1991

7. Other Minds: Critical Essays, 1969-1994, Oxford University Press, 1995

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 Spanish translation: Otras Mentes, Barcelona, Gedisa, 2000

8. The Last Word, Oxford University Press, 1997

Romanian translation: Ultimul cuvant, Bucharest, Editura ALL, 1998
Portuguese translation: A Ultima Palavra, Lisbon, Gradiva, 1999; Sao Paulo, Editora
UNESP, 2001
Italian translation: L’ultima parola, Milan, Feltrinelli, 1999
German translation: Das letzte Wort, Stuttgart, Reclam, 1999
Spanish translation: La Ultima Palabra, Barcelona, Gedisa, 2000
Dutch translation: Uitgeverij Bijleveld
Polish translation: Warsaw, Polish Scientific Publishers
Hungarian translation: Europa Kiado
Swedish translation: Nya Doxa
Chinese translation: Shanghai Translation Publishing House
Japanese translation: Shunjusha, 2015
Estonian translation: Viimane Sona, Tallinn, Eesti Keele Sihtasutus, 2015

9. The Myth of Ownership: Taxes and Justice (with Liam Murphy), Oxford University Press, 2002
Portuguese translation: O mito da propriedade, São Paolo, Martins Fontes, 2005
Japanese translation: 2006
Chinese translation: Shanghai Joint Publishing Company, 2014

10. Concealment and Exposure and Other Essays, Oxford University Press, 2002

11. Secular Philosophy and the Religious Temperament: Essays 2002-2008, Oxford University
Press, 2010

12. Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost
Certainly False, Oxford University Press, 2012
German translation: Geist und Kosmos, Suhrkamp, 2013
Norwegian translation: Sinn og Kosmos, Paradigmeskifte Forlag, 2013
Turkish translation: Jaguar Ritap of Istanbul
Korean translation:
Dutch translation: Geest en Kosmos, Amsterdam University Press, 2014
Spanish translation: Editorial Biblioteca Nueva of Madrid
Finnish translation: Basam Books Oy
Persian translation (unauthorized), 2014
Romanian translation: Editura Humanitas
Italian translation: Milan: Cortina
French translation: L’esprit et le cosmos, Vrin, 2018
Polish translation: Fundacja En Arche
Czech translation: Dauphin publishers
Arabic translation: Tebasier Center for Publishing and Distribution, Egypt

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------------------ II. BOOKS EDITED ------------------

1. Philosophy, Morality, and International Affairs (with Virginia Held and Sidney Morgenbesser),
Oxford University Press, 1974
2. The Rights and Wrongs of Abortion (with Marshall Cohen and Thomas Scanlon), Princeton
University Press, 1974
3. War and Moral Responsibility (with Marshall Cohen and Thomas Scanlon), Princeton
University Press, 1974
4. Equality and Preferential Treatment (with Marshall Cohen and Thomas Scanlon), Princeton
University Press, 1977
5. Marx, Justice, and History (with Marshall Cohen and Thomas Scanlon), Princeton University
Press, 1980
6. Medicine and Moral Philosophy (with Marshall Cohen and Thomas Scanlon), Princeton
University Press, 1981
7. John Rawls, A Brief Inquiry into the Meaning of Sin and Faith, with “On My Religion” Harvard
University Press, 2009

----------------------- III. ARTICLES ----------------------

(reprints and translations not listed)

1. "Hobbes's Concept of Obligation", Philosophical Review 1959, 68-83

2. "Dreaming", Analysis 1959, 112-6
3. "Physicalism", Philosophical Review 1965, 339-56
4. "Sexual Perversion", Journal of Philosophy 1969, 5-17
5. "Linguistics and Epistemology" in Sidney Hook (ed.), Language and Philosophy, New York
University Press 1969, 171-82
6. "The Boundaries of Inner Space", Journal of Philosophy 1969, 452-8
7. "Death", Nous 1970, 73-80
8. "Armstrong on the Mind", Philosophical Review 1970, 394-403 (a discussion review of A
Materialist Theory of the Mind by D.M.Armstrong)
9. "Wittgenstein" The Village Voice Feb. 11, 1971
10. "Brain Bisection and the Unity of Consciousness", Synthese 1971, 396-413
11. "The Absurd", Journal of Philosophy 1971, 716-27
12. "War and Massacre", Philosophy & Public Affairs 1 (1972), 123-44
13. "Reason and National Goals", Science 1972, 766-70
14. "Aristotle on Eudaimonia", Phronesis 1972, 252-9
15. "Rawls on Justice", Philosophical Review 1973, 220-34 (a discussion review of A Theory of
Justice by John Rawls)
16. "Equal Treatment and Compensatory Discrimination", Philosophy & Public Affairs 2 (1973),
348-62
17. "Freud's Anthropomorphism" in Richard Wollheim (ed.), Freud, New York, Doubleday 1974,
11-24
18. "What Is it Like to Be a Bat?", Philosophical Review 1974, 435-50

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19. "Altruism and Economics" in Edmund S. Phelps (ed.), Altruism, Morality, and Economic
Theory, New York, Russell Sage Foundation 1975, 63-7
20. "Libertarianism without Foundations" Yale Law Journal 85 (1975), 136-49 (a discussion review
of Anarchy, State, and Utopia by Robert Nozick)
21. "Moral Luck", Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 50 (1976),
137-55
22. "The Fragmentation of Value" in Daniel Callahan and H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. (eds.),
Knowledge, Value and Belief, Hastingson-Hudson, N.Y., Institute of Society, Ethics and the
Life Sciences 1977, 279-94.
23. "Poverty and Food: Why Charity is Not Enough" in Peter G. Brown and Henry Shue (eds.),
Food Policy, New York, The Free Press 1977, 54-62
24. "Ethics as an Autonomous Theoretical Subject" in Gunther S. Stent (ed.), Morality as a
Biological Phenomenon, Berlin, Dahlem Konferenzen 1978, 221-232
25. "The Justification of Equality", Critica (Mexico) 1978, 3-27
26. "Ruthlessness in Public Life" in Stuart Hampshire (ed.), Public and Private Morality, Cambridge
University Press 1978, 75-91
27. "The Meaning of Equality", Washington University Law Quarterly 1979, 25-31
28. "The Limits of Objectivity" in Sterling M. McMurrin (ed.), The Tanner Lectures on Human
Values, Volume I, University of Utah Press and Cambridge University Press 1980, 75-139
29. "Tactical Nuclear Weapons and the Ethics of Conflict", Parameters: Journal of the U.S. Army
War College 1981, 327-8
30. "The Supreme Court and Political Philosophy", New York University Law Review 56 (1981),
519-24
31. "A Month in the Country", The New Republic March 14, 1983
32. "The Objective Self" in Carl Ginet and Sydney Shoemaker (eds.), Knowledge and Mind, Oxford
University Press 1983, 211-232
33. "Caste Struggle", The New Republic January 23, 1984
34. "Bemerkungen zu Bernard Williams' Beitrag" in Eva Schaper and Wilhelm Vossenkuhl (eds.),
Bedingungen der Möglichkeit, Stuttgart, Klett-Cotta 1984, 262-6
35. "Public Support for the Arts", Columbia Journal of Art and the Law 9 (1985), 236-9
36. "No Way Out", The Philosophical Forum, vol. XVIII, No. 2-3, (1986-87), 171-6
37. "Moral Conflict and Political Legitimacy", Philosophy & Public Affairs, summer 1987, 215-240
37. "Libertad y Objetividad" in E. Villanueva (ed.), Secundo Simposio Internacional de Filosofia,
Vol. 2, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 1987
39. "The Foundations of Impartiality" in N. Fotion and D. Seanor (eds.), Hare and Critics, Oxford
University Press 1988, 101-112
40. "What Makes a Political Theory Utopian?", Social Research 56, (1989) 903-920
41. "Freedom Within Bounds", Times Literary Supplement, Feb. 16-22, 1990, 169
42. "Coscienza e realta oggetiva", in G. Giorello & P. Strata, (eds.), L'Automa Spirituale: Menti,
Cervelli e Computer, (Rome, Laterza, 1991), 31-37
43. "What Is the Mind-body Problem?" and "Summary", in Experimental and Theoretical Studies of
Consciousness, Ciba Foundation Symposium 174 (Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, 1993) 1-13,
304-6
44. "La valeur de l'inviolabilité", Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale 1994, no. 2, 149-66. [English

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103-113]
45. "Consciousness and Objective Reality", in R. Warner and T. Szubka (eds.), The Mind-Body
Problem, Blackwell, 1994
46. "Moral Epistemology", in R. E. Bulger, E. M. Bobby, and H. V. Fineberg (eds.), Society's
Choices: Social and Ethical Decision Making in Biomedicine (Washington, National Academy
Press, 1995) 201-214
47. "Personal Rights and Public Space", Philosophy & Public Affairs vol. 24 no. 2 (1995), 83-107
48. "Universality and the Reflective Self", in Onora O'Neill (ed.), The Sources of Normativity,
Cambridge University Press 1996, 200-209
49. "Justice and Nature", Oxford Journal of Legal Studies vol. 17 no. 2 (1997), 303-321
50. “Assisted Suicide: The Philosophers’ Brief” (with Ronald Dworkin, Robert Nozick, John Rawls,
Thomas Scanlon, and Judith Jarvis Thomson), New York Review of Books March 27, 1997
51. “Reductionism and Antireductionism”, in The Limits of Reductionism in Biology, Novartis
Symposium 213, John Wiley & Sons 1998, 3-10
52. “Concealment and Exposure”, Philosophy & Public Affairs vol. 27 no. 1 (1998), 3-30
53. “Conceiving the Impossible and the Mind-Body Problem”, Philosophy vol. 73 no. 285 (1998),
337-352
54. “The Shredding of Public Privacy”, Times Literary Supplement August 14, 1998
55. Dialogue with Michael Kinsley on “Politicians and Privacy”, Slate Sept. 22 - Oct. 7, 1998
56. “Davidson’s New Cogito”, in Lewis Hahn, ed., The Philosophy of Donald Davidson, (Chicago:
Open Court, 1999), 195-206
57. “The Psychophysical Nexus”, in Paul Boghossian and Christopher Peacocke, eds., New Essays
on the A Priori (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000), 432-471
58. “Pluralism and Coherence”, in Ronald Dworkin, Mark Lilla, and Robert B. Silvers, eds., The
Legacy of Isaiah Berlin (New York: New York Review Books, 2001), 105-111
59. (with Liam Murphy) “Taxes, Redistribution, and Public Provision”, Philosophy & Public Affairs
vol. 30, no. 1 (2001), 53-71
60. “Rawls and Liberalism”, in Samuel Freeman, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Rawls
(Cambridge University Press, 2003), 62-85
61. (with Liam Murphy) “Tax Travesties”, The Boston Globe Jan. 26, 2003
62. “John Rawls and Affirmative Action”, The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education Number 39
(Spring 2003), 82-4
63. “Comments: Individual Versus Collective Responsibility”, Fordham Law Review 72 (April,
2004), 2015-2020
64. “The Problem of Global Justice”, Philosophy & Public Affairs 33, no. 2 (2005), 113-147
65. “Ethics” in Donald M. Borchert, ed., Encyclopedia of Philosophy 2nd edition (MacMillan, 2006)
66. “Williams, Sir Bernard”, Encyclopedia Britannica (2007)
67. “Science and the Mind-Body Problem”, in Msgr. Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo, ed., What Is Our
Real Knowledge about the Human Being? (Pontifical Academy of Sciences, 2007)
68. “Public Education and Intelligent Design”, Philosophy & Public Affairs 36, no. 2 (2008) 187-
205
69. (with Joshua Cohen) “Introduction”, in John Rawls, A Brief Inquiry into the Meaning of Sin and
Faith (Harvard University Press, 2009); shorter version published as “Faith in the Community”

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70. “Analytic Philosophy and Human Life”, Economia Politica 26, no. 1 (2009), 3-13
71. “Liberal Democracy and Hereditary Inequality”, Tax Law Review 63, no. 1 (2009), 113-121
72. “The Core of Mind and Cosmos”, New York Times (Opinionator) August 18, 2013
73. “Foreword”, in Robert Nozick, Anarchy, State, and Utopia (Basic Books, 2013)
74. “Consciousness and the Physical Sciences”, in Kurt Almqvist and Anders Haag, eds.,The Return
of Consciousness (Stockholm: Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation, 2017), 41-46
75. “Types of Intuition”, London Review of Books June 3, 2021

------------------------------ IV. REVIEWS ----------------------------

1. Alan R. White, Attention, Philosophical Review 1967, 406-9

2. D. C. Dennett, Content and Consciousness, Journal of Philosophy 1972, 220-4
3. Walker Percy, The Message in the Bottle, New York Review of Books Sept. 18, 1975
4. Brian O'Shaughnessy, The Will: a Dual-Aspect Theory, Times Literary Supplement
March 27, 1981
5. Bernard Williams, Moral Luck, Times Literary Supplement May 7, 1982
6. R. M. Hare, Moral Thinking, London Review of Books July 1-14, 1982
7. Colin McGinn, The Subjective View, Times Literary Supplement November 18, 1983
8. Stuart Hampshire, Morality and Conflict, New York Times April 8, 1984
9. Thomas Schelling, Choice and Consequence, The New Republic August 27, 1984
10. Bernard Williams, Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy, Journal of Philosophy 1986, 351-60
11. Ronald Dworkin, Law's Empire, London Review of Books September 18, 1986
12. J.Z.Young, Philosophy and the Brain, and Galen Strawson, Freedom and Belief, London Review
of Books October 1, 1987
13. Alasdair MacIntyre, Whose Justice? Which Rationality?, Times Literary Supplement July 8-14,
1988
14. David Pears, The False Prison: A Study of the Development of Wittgenstein's Philosophy, Vol.
II, London Review of Books May 18, 1989
15. Leszek Kolakowski, Modernity on Endless Trial, Times Literary Supplement December 14-20,
1990
16. Edna and Avishai Margalit, eds., Isaiah Berlin: A Celebration, London Review of Books July
25, 1991
17. Daniel C. Dennett, Consciousness Explained, The Wall Street Journal November 7, 1991
18. John R. Searle, The Rediscovery of the Mind, New York Review of Books March 4, 1993
19. Richard Wollheim, The Mind and Its Depths, and Paul Robinson, Freud and His Critics, New
York Review of Books May 12, 1994
20. Joseph Raz, Ethics in the Public Domain: Essays in the Morality of Law and Politics, London
Review of Books September 22, 1994
21. Willard Gaylin and Bruce Jennings, The Perversion of Autonomy, New York Times September
8, 1996
22. Richard Rorty, Truth and Progress: Philosophical Papers, volume 3, Times Literary Supplement
August 28, 1998
23. Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont, Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals Abuse of

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 Science, The New Republic October 12, 1998
24. T. M. Scanlon, What We Owe to Each Other, London Review of Books, February 4, 1999
25. Martha C. Nussbaum, Sex and Social Justice, The New Republic, March 8, 1999
26. Richard Dawkins, Unweaving the Rainbow, and Niles Eldredge, The Pattern of Evolution,
London Review of Books, April 1, 1999
27. Wendy Shalit, A Return to Modesty, Times Literary Supplement, June 18, 1999
28. Jeremy Waldron, The Dignity of Legislation, London Review of Books, October 14, 1999
29. John Rawls, Collected Papers, The Law of Peoples, with “The Idea of Public Reason Revisited”,
and A Theory of Justice, Revised Edition, The New Republic, October 25, 1999
30. Steven Pinker, Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language, The New Republic, January 24,
2000
31. G. A. Cohen, If You’re an Egalitarian, How Come You’re So Rich?, Times Literary
Supplement, June 23, 2000
32. Ray Monk, Bertrand Russell: The Ghost of Madness, 1921-1970, The New Republic May 7,
2001
33. Cass Sunstein, republic.com, London Review of Books July 5, 2001
34. Barry Stroud, The Quest for Reality: Subjectivism and the Metaphysics of Color, London
Review of Books September 20, 2001
35. Rüdiger Safranski, Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography, The New Republic January 14, 2002
36. Richard A. Posner, Public Intellectuals: A Study of Decline, Times Literary Supplement January
25, 2002
37. Brian O’Shaughnessy, Consciousness and the World, New York Review of Books April 11,
2002
38. Bernard Williams, Truth and Truthfulness: An Essay in Genealogy, The New Republic October
21, 2002
39. Bede Rundle, Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing, Times Literary Supplement May 7,
2004
40. Nicola Lacey, A Life of H. L. A. Hart: The Nightmare and the Noble Dream, London Review of
Books February 3, 2005
41. Catharine A. MacKinnon, Women’s Lives, Men’s Laws, Times Literary Supplement May 20,
2005
42. Jeremy A. Rabkin, Law Without Nations? Why Constitutional Government Requires Sovereign
States, The New Republic June 27, 2005
43. Kwame Anthony Appiah, The Ethics of Identity and Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of
Strangers, The New Republic February 27, 2006
44. Michael J. Sandel, Public Philosophy: Essays on Morality in Politics, New York Review of
Books May 25, 2006
45. Bernard Williams, The Sense of the Past: Essays in the History of Philosophy, In the Beginning
Was the Deed: Realism and Moralism in Political Argument, and Philosophy as a Humanistic
Discipline, London Review of Books May 11, 2006
46. Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion, The New Republic October 23, 2006
47. David Wiggins, Ethics: Twelve Lectures on the Philosophy of Morality, Times Literary
Supplement October 20, 2006
48. Galen Strawson, Selves: An Essay in Revisionary Metaphysics, London Review of Books

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49. Peter Singer, The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty and Jeffrey A.
Schaler, ed., Peter Singer Under Fire: The Moral Iconoclast Faces His Critics, New York
Review of Books March 25, 2010
50. Mark Johnston, Surviving Death, Times Literary Supplement June 4, 2010
51. Barbara Herrnstein Smith, Natural Reflections, London Review of Books August 19, 2010
52. Sam Harris, The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values, The New
Republic November 11, 2010
53. Sissela Bok, Exploring Happiness: From Aristotle to Brain Science and Derek Bok, The Politics
of Happiness: What Government Can Learn from the New Research on Well-Being, New York
Review of Books December 23, 2010
54. Tony Judt, The Memory Chalet, New York Review of Books February 10, 2011
55. David Brooks, The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement,
New York Times March 13, 2011
56. Barry Stroud, Engagement and Metaphysical Dissatisfaction: Modality and Value, Times
Literary Supplement August 12, 2011
57. L. W. Sumner, Assisted Death, London Review of Books October 6, 2011
58. Daniel Kelly, Yuck! The Nature and Moral Significance of Disgust and Colin McGinn, The
Meaning of Disgust, New York Review of Books November 24, 2011
59. Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow, The New Republic February 16, 2012
60. Alvin Plantinga, Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism, New York
Review of Books September 27, 2012
61. Jonathan Haidt, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
and Michael Rosen, Dignity: Its History and Meaning, New York Review of Books December 6,
2012
62. John Gray, The Silence of Animals: On Progress and Other Modern Myths, New York Times
July 7, 2013
63. Joshua Greene, Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap between Us and Them, The New
Republic November 11, 2013
64. Stephen Guest, Ronald Dworkin, New York Review of Books November 21, 2013
65. Samuel Scheffler, Death and the Afterlife, New York Review of Books January 9, 2014
66. R. Jay Wallace, The View from Here: On Affirmation, Attachment and the Limits of Regret,
London Review of Books April 3, 2014
67. T. M. Scanlon, Being Realistic about Reasons, New York Review of Books October 9, 2014
68. William MacAskill, Doing Good Better: Effective Altruism and a Radical New Way to Make a
Difference and Peter Singer, The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing
Ideas about Living Ethically, Times Literary Supplement November 20, 2015
69. Scott Shane, Objective Troy: A Terrorist, a President and the Rise of the Drone, London Review
of Books March 3, 2016
70. Richard English, Does Terrorism Work? A History, London Review of Books September 8,
2016
71. Anthony Gottlieb, The Dream of Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Philosophy, New York
Review of Books September 29, 2016
72. Daniel C. Dennett, From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds, New York

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73. H. G. Adler, Theresienstadt 1941-1945: The Face of a Coerced Community, New York Review
of Books September 28, 2017
74. Kwame Anthony Appiah, As If: Idealization and Ideals, New York Review of Books April 5,
2018
75. Christine M. Korsgaard, Fellow Creatures: Our Obligations to the Other Animals, New York
Review of Books March 21, 2019
76. Richard Swinburne, Are We Bodies or Souls?, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, April 7,
2020

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