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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 ]
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 ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 21 December 2024. American philosopher and legal scholar (born 1963) Brian Leiter Born 1963 (age 61–62) New York City, U.S. Alma mater Princeton University (BA) University of Michigan (JD, PhD) Era Contemporary philosophy Region Western philosophy School Continental philosophy Institutions University ...
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).
The ideas of Thomas Nagel and Joseph Levine fall into the second category. [45] 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.
In an earlier 2017 paper The Incoherence of Soft Nihilism, [2] Matheson classifies Benatar—together with Arthur Schopenhauer, Albert Camus, and Thomas Nagel—as a proponent of what he refers to as "soft nihilism," or the belief that there is overall negative value in being alive (as compared to what Matheson calls "affirmationism," which ...
The NPOV policy says nothing about objectivity. In particular, the policy does not say that there is such a thing as objectivity in a philosophical sense—a "view from nowhere" (to use Thomas Nagel's phrase), such that articles written from that viewpoint are consequently objectively true. That is not the policy, and it is not our aim!
Philosopher Thomas Nagel submitted the book to the "2009 Books of the Year" supplement for The Times. [7] Stephen Fletcher, chemist at Loughborough University, responded in The Times Literary Supplement that Nagel was "promot[ing] the book to the rest of us using statements that are factually incorrect."