And Other Essays
CONCEALMENT AND EXPOSURE And Other Essays Thomas Nagel 1 2002 3 Oxford New York Auckland Bangkok Buenos Aires Cape Town Chennai Dar es Salaam Delhi Hong Kong Istanbul Karachi Kolkata Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Mumbai Nairobi São Paulo Shanghai Singapore Taipei Tokyo Toronto and an associated company in Berlin Copyright © 2002 by Oxford University Press, Inc. Published by Oxford University Press, Inc. 198 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10016 www.oup.com Oxford is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of Oxford University Press. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Nagel, Thomas, 1937– Concealment and exposure : and other essays / Thomas Nagel. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-19-515293-X 1. Philosophy of mind. 2. Ethics, Modern. 3. Privacy. I. Title. B945.N333 C66 2002 100—dc21 2002025758 246897531 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper Preface These essays, written over the past few years, do not form a natural unity, but they do form three groups, corresponding to my main philo- sophical concerns during the period: (1) the relations between private and public life, especially with regard to sexual privacy; (2) the right form of a liberal outlook in moral and political theory; (3) the under- standing of objective reality in the face of various forms of subjectivism. Those concerns found expression equally in independent essays and in book reviews, so I have included both.
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