Thomas Nagel is University Professor in the Department of Philosophy and the School of Law at New York University. His books include The Possibility of Altruism, The View from Nowhere, and What Does It All Mean?: A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. In 2008, he was awarded the Rolf Schock Prize in Logic andPhilosophy and the Balzan Prize in Moral Philosophy.

`This is a book rich in insight and argument, written with elegant simplicity, and ... refreshingly modest in tone.' Inquiry

• I: Introduction II: Mind III: Mind and Body IV: The Objective Self V: Knowledge VI: Thought and Reality VII: Freedom VIII: Value IX: Ethics X: Living Right and Living Well XI: Birth, Death, and the Meaning of Life

Thomas Nagel is University Professor in the Department of Philosophy and the School of Law at New York University. His books include The Possibility of Altruism, The View from Nowhere, and What Does It All Mean?: A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. In 2008, he was awarded the Rolf Schock Prize in Logic andPhilosophy and the Balzan Prize in Moral Philosophy.

`This is a book rich in insight and argument, written with elegant simplicity, and ... refreshingly modest in tone.' Inquiry

• I: Introduction II: Mind III: Mind and Body IV: The Objective Self V: Knowledge VI: Thought and Reality VII: Freedom VIII: Value IX: Ethics X: Living Right and Living Well XI: Birth, Death, and the Meaning of Life