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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455739703321

Autore

Nagel Thomas

Titolo

The Last Word [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1997

ISBN

1-280-45299-4

9786610452996

0-19-802678-1

0-585-35984-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (158 p.)

Disciplina

128.3

149.2

149/.2

Soggetti

Reason

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 1 Introduction; 2 Why We Can't Understand Thought from the Outside; 3 Language; 4 Logic; 5 Science; 6 Ethics; 7 Evolutionary Naturalism and the Fear of Religion; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z

Sommario/riassunto

This work presents a sustained defence of reason against the attacks of subjectivism, delivering systematic rebuttals of relativistic claims with respect to language, logic, science and ethics.