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Thomas Nagel (/ ˈ n eɪ ɡ əl /; born July 4, 1937) is an American philosopher. He is the University Professor of Philosophy and Law Emeritus at New York University , [ 3 ] where he taught from 1980 until his retirement in 2016. [ 4 ]
The paper's author, Thomas Nagel Nagel challenges the possibility of explaining "the most important and characteristic feature of conscious mental phenomena" by reductive materialism (the philosophical position that all statements about the mind and mental states can be translated, without any loss or change in meaning, into statements about the physical).
A Review of Thomas Nagel’s 'Mind and Cosmos'" The Partially Examined Life; Louis B. Jones and P. N. Furbank, "Two Perspectives on Thomas Nagel's Mind and Cosmos The Threepenny Review Fall 2012; John Dupré, untitled review Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews; Brian Leiter and Michael Weisberg, "Do You Only Have a Brain? On Thomas Nagel" The ...
Nagel argues that, because bats are apparently conscious mammals with a way of perceiving their environment entirely different from that of human beings, it is impossible to speak of "what is it like to be a bat for the bat" or, while the example of the bat is particularly illustrative, any conscious species, as each organism has a unique point ...
The View from Nowhere is a book by philosopher Thomas Nagel.Published by Oxford University Press in 1986, it contrasts passive and active points of view in how humanity interacts with the world, relying either on a subjective perspective that reflects a point of view or an objective perspective that takes a more detached perspective. [1]
Pages in category "Works by Thomas Nagel" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. M. Mind and Cosmos; V.
Thomas Nagel and others speak of 'psychophysical reductionism' (the attempted reduction of psychological phenomena to physics and chemistry), and 'physico-chemical reductionism' (the attempted reduction of biology to physics and chemistry). [7]
The ideas of Thomas Nagel and Joseph Levine fall into the second category. [43] Steven Pinker has also endorsed this weaker version of the view, summarizing it as follows: [9] And then there is the theory put forward by philosopher Colin McGinn that our vertigo when pondering the Hard Problem is itself a quirk of our brains.