Essays Tagged: "Thomas Nagel"
Responsibility: are we really responsible for our actions?
are affected by the alternative choices that were not taken as well as the choices that were made. Thomas Nagel believes that an agent's autonomy is always being threatened by the possibility of a vi ... al Analysis, ed. H. Feigl, W. Sellarsand K. Lehrer (New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1972).Nagel, Thomas. "The View from Nowhere." Cambridge University Press. (1979).pp.110-137
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics
The dualism and its criticisms and about physicalism and its criticisms.
ight now, is itself nothing more than a physical event.In fact, there is an article by an American, Thomas Nagel, that came out in the late 1970s called "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?" In this article ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Comparative Philosophy & Ethics
A defence of cartesian dualism from the attacks of modern science.
bstance from the rest of the body.Dualism is a functional way of looking at brain activities Thomas Nagel is confused by the apparent existence of more than one mind in split brain patients. It ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
Philosophy and old age
ll be adequate with out a reappraisal of the role of activity and contemplation in the modern world.Nagel, "The Absurd"Nagel's point is how life is absurd and how no matter what humans are always goin ... keep us out of a limbo state and these are the things that keep us healthy which prolong life where Nagel thinks absurd.People are always going to have to deal with absurd situations in life and it wi ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
Th Doctrine of Double Effect: Consequentialism
chings centered on the idea that actions must be guided above all by adherence to clear principles. Thomas Nagel suggest that the core idea in deontological thinking is the Doctrine of Double Effect a ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Contemporary Philosophy
Inverted Spectrum
both people here the exact sound the lion makes. This idea of hearing is kind of the same thing as Nagel states in chapter three. However, instead of the sense of hearing, Nagel uses the sense of tas ... be. But we can argue and try and figure out ways to find these types of things. This refers to when Nagel talks about there being no way of finding if there is actually feelings in a tree, or a Kleene ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Modern Philosophy
Objectivity is Possible
ependent, world what we have actually invented ourselves, out of instinct, imagination and culture? Thomas Nagel states that "The beginning of an objective concept of mind is the ability to view one's ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
Objectivism
dependent, world what we have actually invented ourselves, out of instinct, imagination and culture?Thomas Nagel states that "The beginning of an objective concept of mind is the ability to view one's ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
Can physicalism account for qualia?
ve all the physical facts about something yet still gain new information in the experiencing of it. Thomas Nagel focused on point of view to try to show that an objective theory cannot capture subject ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy