Thomas Nagel
Teoksen What Does It All Mean?: A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy tekijä
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Thomas Nagel is University Professor at New York University.
Image credit: Thomas Nagel teaching an undergraduate course in ethics at New York University.
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Tekijän teokset
What Does It All Mean?: A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy (1987) 998 kappaletta, 11 arvostelua
Mieli ja kosmos : Miksi materialistis-darwinistinen luontokäsitys on lähes varmasti epätosi (2012) 499 kappaletta, 10 arvostelua
Moral Conflict and Political Legitimacy 1 kappale
Prudential Motives and the Present 1 kappale
'The view from here and now' in LRB 28/9, 11 May 2006 [review of various books of Bernard Williams] 1 kappale
'Legal violations' in TLS 5329, 20 May 2005 [review of MacKinnon's 'Women's lives, men's laws'] 1 kappale
Thomas Nagel 1 kappale
O Fiscalismo 1 kappale
What is rude? 1 kappale
Associated Works
The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul (1981) — Avustaja — 2,830 kappaletta, 22 arvostelua
Philosophy of Mind: Classical and Contemporary Readings (2002) — Avustaja — 298 kappaletta, 1 arvostelu
The Moral Life: An Introductory Reader in Ethics and Literature (1999) — Avustaja — 184 kappaletta, 2 arvostelua
Reading Metaphysics: Selected Texts with Interactive Commentary (Reading Philosophy) (2007) — Avustaja — 17 kappaletta
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Yleistieto
- Syntymäaika
- 1937-07-04
- Sukupuoli
- male
- Kansalaisuus
- USA
- Ammatit
- philosopher
- Suhteet
- Hollander, Anne (wife)
- Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
- Rolf Schock Prize (Logic and Philosophy, 2008)
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Keskustelut
Nagel's Mind and Cosmos, Philosophy and Theory (toukokuu 2016)
Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False, Let's Talk Religion (marraskuu 2013)
Plantinga's defence of religion, Let's Talk Religion (syyskuu 2012)
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This seems more targeted to a highschool crowd who haven't engaged with philosophy at all. It's pedagogically laid out as a journey through most common philosophical topics from how we can know anything at all to theories about life and death.
Too hard for me! I understood chunks of it, but there was plenty that whizzed past me. Great topics though. Includes the famous “What is it like to be a bat” essay. I guess I need a “Thomas Nagel for Dummies” book.
It's weird, I like his writing, and I'm very interested in the subject matter, and he doesn't use complex language... but I just don't understand what he's talking about frequently. I don't mind skimming over some stuff if I don't get it, but after about 50 pages I realized I was 'skimming' over entire chapters.
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This is a very academic essay about the problem of the origin nature of consciousness.
Nagel uses bats as an example of a consciousness that we can’t know. But he needn’t have bothered. His point is just as accurate about other humans. It isn’t possible for us to know what it is like to be anyone other than ourselves.
His first point is that consciousness exists, and yet we can not measure it objectively.
He is critical of the physical reductionist theory that consciousness is just an illusion that has physical causes. He advocates for a unified theory that would explain how consciousness can exist. He uses the metaphor of heat and pressure. Pressure creates heat, but heat also creates pressure. They are inherently related, neither necessarily precedes the other. So he says it might be with consciousness. It might be related to matter but not contingent on matter.
He doesn’t propose a theory. We don’t currently have any good theory of consciousness. But we have to start somewhere.… (lisätietoja)