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13-02-2024 | BOOK REVIEW

Thomas Nagel, Moral Feelings, Moral Reality, and Moral Progress

Oxford University Press, 2023, 72 pp., ISBN: 978-0197690888

Author: Paul Bloomfield

Published in: Society

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It is always a pleasure to read Thomas Nagel’s writing. Beyond the philosophy, I am referring to the writing itself. His prose is a joy: the sentences are so clear and well-constructed, the examples so well-chosen, the tone and style so undeniably intelligent and reasonable. And always edifying. I do not start with these comments as some kind of backhanded implicature; indeed, as far as praise goes, I am just warming up. …

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Footnotes
1
Raz, “Moral Change and Social Relativism,” Social Philosophy and Policy vol. 11, no. 1: 139–158 (1994); “Can Moral Principles Change?” in The Roots of Normativity (Oxford: Oxford University Press) 2022.
 
2
Scanlon, Being Realistic About Reasons (Oxford: Oxford University Press) 2014.
 
3
R. Millikan, ‘What is Behavior?’, in White Queen Psychology and Other Essays for Alice (Cambridge: MIT Press) 1993.
 
4
For more, see my “Function, Fitness, Flourishing” in The Oxford Handbook of Moral Realism, edited by P. Bloomfield and D. Copp (New York: Oxford University Press) 2023.
 
Metadata
Title
Thomas Nagel, Moral Feelings, Moral Reality, and Moral Progress
Oxford University Press, 2023, 72 pp., ISBN: 978-0197690888
Author
Paul Bloomfield
Publication date
13-02-2024
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Society
Print ISSN: 0147-2011
Electronic ISSN: 1936-4725
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-024-00964-y