The Last Word (Record no. 12431)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780199872206
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 149.2
Item number N131L
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Personal name Nagel, T.
Relator term Author
Language of a work English
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Title The Last Word
Statement of responsibility, etc. / by T. Nagel.
Medium [Electronic Resource]
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. New York
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. : Oxford University Press,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2003
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. In this discussion of where justification and understanding come to an end, Nagel undertakes to refute various forms of subjectivism. Defending rationalism, he argues that there are some thoughts that we simply cannot get outside of; thoughts that we cannot regard as mere psychological dispositions. The last word on philosophical disputes about the objectivity of any form of thought must lie in some unqualified thoughts about how things are. In the domains of logic and mathematics, certain basic propositions are immune to doubt being central to the framework of everything we can think. In the domains of ethics, science, or history, resistance to the external or subjective viewpoint comes from within these domains themselves. First‐order thoughts about ethics, science, and history are the decisive factor in response to any second‐order thoughts about their psychological character. Any criticism of the reasoning within these domains necessarily involves reasoning carried out at the same level of inquiry. Questions about how the capacity for rational thought is possible for a species like ours generate a pernicious fear of religion that Nagel seeks to dispel.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Epistemology
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Philosophy
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Philosophy Of Religion
9 (RLIN) 2373
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Uniform Resource Identifier <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/0195149831.001.0001">http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/0195149831.001.0001</a>
Electronic format type PDF
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Koha item type e-Book
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      e-Book For Access   Textbook S. R. Ranganathan Learning Hub S. R. Ranganathan Learning Hub Online 2022-09-20 Infokart India Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi 356.40   149.2 N131L EB0571 2022-09-20 2022-09-20 e-Book Platform : Oxford Academic