Shelly Kagan

Shelly Kagan is Professor of Philosophy at Yale University.

He got his B. A. at Wesleyan University and his Ph.D. at Princeton University in 1982, under the supervision of Thomas Nagel.

Before Yale, he worked at the Universities University of Pittsburgh and University of Illinois at Chicago.

Kagan has Jewish ancestors. One held by such philosophical lecture about death you can watch free on the Internet, in the project of the Open Yale Courses.

Works

  • The Geometry of Desert, Oxford University Press, 2012.ISBN 0,199,895,597th
  • Death, Yale University Press,, 2012. ISBN 978-0-300-18084-8.
  • Normative Ethics, Westview Press, 1997, ISBN 0-8133-0846-1
  • The Limits of Morality, Oxford University Press, 1991. ISBN 0-19-823916-5
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