# Thomas Nagel

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Which Life is Most Meaningful?

Christians seem odd. Our odd views are counter culture. However, let us respond to our critics in a way that counters their own cultural narrative about Christianity. What if the very thing you find concerning ends up offering you far more hope than you ever dared dream? How can answers to the cha‮…

Matt Zwolinski - Is There Such A Thing As A Free Market?

In this conversation from 2024, Alex speaks with Matt Zwolinski about whether a truly "free market" exists, delving into concepts of freedom, coercion, and property rights. They examine critiques of markets from left-leaning thinkers, such as Robert Hale, as well as conservative perspectives, whil‮…

Robert Nagel, Sexual Perversion - Initial Clarifications Of The Concept - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses the 20th century Analytic philosopher, Thomas Nagel's essay "Sexual Perversion", and focuses upon the initial clarifications Nagel thinks needs to be made about the concept of sexual perversion before going on to examine it in further detail. He makes three positive clarific‮…

INTERVIEW: Phil Drake, Director of the Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction

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Robert Nagel, Sexual Perversion - Addressing A Skeptical Objection - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses the 20th century Analytic philosopher, Thomas Nagel's essay "Sexual Perversion", and focuses upon what Nagel calls a "skeptical challenge" to the very notion that there is something that can meaningfully be called "sexual perversion". One way of articulating this is to say t‮…

Robert Nagel, Sexual Perversion - Sexual Desire And Awareness Of The Other - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses the 20th century Analytic philosopher, Thomas Nagel's essay "Sexual Perversion", and focuses upon the portion of his article where Nagel begins setting out his conception of a full sexual relationship between two people. Sexual attraction and desire is, according to Nagel, d‮…

Robert Nagel, Sexual Perversion - Sexual Perception And Embodiment - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses the 20th century Analytic philosopher, Thomas Nagel's essay "Sexual Perversion", and focuses upon Nagel's depiction of what he calls the paradigm case of mutual sexual desire, which involves perceiving the other person sexually, through desire, but also reacting to their des‮…

480. Original Sin with Kathryn Paige Harden

Listen and Learn: Why genes, like environments, tilt the playing field without determining the outcome, and what a cloned Texas bull named Second Chance (who gored his owners, unlike the sweet original) teaches us about genetic determinism Why "What if you'd had my childhood?" invites sympathy wh‮…

Thomas Nagel, Sexual Perversion - Perversions Of The Central Impulse - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses the 20th century Analytic philosopher, Thomas Nagel's essay "Sexual Perversion", and focuses upon a number of sexual desires, practices, and relationships commonly viewed as sexual perversions in the time and culture that Nagel was writing, and Nagel's own views on whether a‮…

Thomas Nagel, Sexual Perversion - Sexual Perversion And Morality - Sadler's Lectures

This lecture discusses the 20th century Analytic philosopher, Thomas Nagel's essay "Sexual Perversion", and focuses upon the remarks that Nagel closes the article with, bearing on how sexual perversion connects with morality and goodness or badness. He clarifies that moral judgements are just one ‮…