Search results
1 day ago · An Overview. William F. Vallicella. Jul 16, 2024. Short (128 pp.) and programmatic, Thomas Nagel's Mind and Cosmos (Oxford UP, 2012) explores the prospects of an approach in the philosophy of mind that is naturalistic yet not materialistic. Its subtitle is: “Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False.”.
Jun 23, 2024 · In his influential paper of 1970, tersely entitled Death, the philosopher Thomas Nagel addresses precisely this question: if death is the permanent end of our existence, is it an evil?
Jun 23, 2024 · Nagel attempts to draw distinctions between legitimate and illegitimate targets of violence, and when violence is justified in warfare. ...more. On this episode of the podcast, Chris and Zan...
Jun 22, 2024 · In his influential paper of 1970, tersely entitled Death, the great philosopher Thomas Nagel asks the question: if death is the permanent end of our existence, is it an evil?
4 days ago · The philosopher Thomas Nagel posited in his 1974 paper "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?" that experiences are essentially subjective (accessible only to the individual undergoing them—i.e., felt only by the one feeling them), while physical states are essentially objective (accessible to multiple individuals).
Jun 20, 2024 · For me, consciousness is something more basic. The philosopher Thomas Nagel defines it, I think, very nicely as for a conscious organism, there is something it is like to be that organism. and what he’s getting at here is that it feels like something to be me. I’m not just an object. You’re not just an object.
4 days ago · A variety of concepts have been developed to solve the mind-body problem, which can be divided into the basic views of monism and dualism. Thomas Nagel describes the problem of the subjectivity of consciousness and argues that it is impossible to fully understand the subjective experience of another species.
