Summary: Publisher Summary 1 Nagel (philosophy and law, New York U.) assembles 18 essays published between 1994 and 2002 in various specialized and popular periodicals and other anthologies. They explore themes and views relating to privacy. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)   Publisher Summary 2 Thomas Nagel is widely recognized as one of the top American philosophers working today. Reflecting the diversity of his many philosophical preoccupations, this volume is a collection of his most recent critical essays and reviews. The first section, Public and Private, focuses on the notion of privacy in the context of social and political issues, such as the impeachment of President Clinton. The second section, Right and Wrong, discusses moral, political and legal theory, and includes pieces on John Rawls, G.A. Cohen, and T.M. Scanlon, among others. The final section, Mind and Reality, features discussions of Richard Rorty, Donald Davidson, and the Sokal hoax, and closes with a substantial new essay on the mind-body problem. Written with characteristic rigor, these pieces reveal the intellectual passion underlying the incisive analysis for which Nagel is known.