Secular philosophy and the religious temperament: essays 2002-2008
Oxford; New York
Oxford University Press
Includes bibliographical references and index
Thomas Nagel
Secular philosophy and the religious temperament -- Dawkins and atheism -- Why is there anything? -- Nietzsche's self - creation -- Public education and intelligent design -- The problem of global justice -- The limits of international law -- Appiah's rooted cosmopolitanism -- Sandel and the paradox of liberalism -- MacKinnon on sexual domination -- Williams: the value of truth -- Williams: humanity and philosophy -- Wiggins on human solidarity -- O'Shaughnessy on the stream of consciousness -- Sartre: the look and the problem of other minds