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What Does It All Mean?

by Thomas Nagel

  • FINISHED
  • Finished September 2025
  • First published 1987

philosophy introduction metaphysics epistemology

A very short introduction to nine philosophical problems, including free will, knowledge, the mind-body problem and the meaning of life.   Nagel poses each question in plain language and works through it without jargon.