Thomas Nagel (/ˈneɪɡəl/; born July 4, 1937) is an American philosopher. He is the University Professor of Philosophy and Law Emeritus at New York University...
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Kantian ethics (section Thomas Nagel)
Justice. Thomas Nagel has been highly influential in the related fields of moral and political philosophy. Supervised by John Rawls, Nagel has been a...
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What Is It Like to Be a Bat? (category Works by Thomas Nagel)
paper by American philosopher Thomas Nagel, first published in The Philosophical Review in October 1974, and later in Nagel's Mortal Questions (1979). The...
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Structural evil (section Thomas Nagel)
Rousseau and Robespierre. However, more modern thinkers on this subject are Thomas Nagel, Claudia Card, Cynthia D. Moe-Lobeda, and John Langan. Rousseau proposed...
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along with its significance to a coherent moral theory, by Williams and Thomas Nagel in their respective essays on the subject. Broadly speaking, human beings...
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Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-511355-6.[page needed] Thomas, Alan (2015). Thomas Nagel. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-49418-8.[page needed] Kolak, Daniel...
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in the first half of the 20th century) include Józef Maria Bocheński, Thomas Nagel, T. M. Scanlon, and Roger Scruton. Bocheński (1965) makes a distinction...
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(1984). "Nagel or Camus on the Absurd?". Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. 45 (1): 15–28. doi:10.2307/2107324. JSTOR 2107324. Nagel, Thomas (2012)...
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existence and nature of animal consciousness can never rigorously be known. Thomas Nagel spelled out this point of view in an influential essay titled "What Is...
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interaction, and the options available to the coerced party.: 126 John Rawls, Thomas Nagel, Ronald Dworkin, and other political authors argue that the state is...
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nothing beyond the average kinetic energy of its molecules in motion. Thomas Nagel and others speak of 'psychophysical reductionism' (the attempted reduction...
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consciousness, awareness, the state of being awake, and so on. Chalmers uses Thomas Nagel's definition of consciousness: "the feeling of what it is like to be something...
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The term was coined and illuminated by Thomas Nagel in his famous paper "What Is it Like to Be a Bat?" Nagel argues that, because bats are apparently...
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positivists A. J. Ayer Ernest Nagel Harvard Roderick Chisholm Donald Davidson Daniel Dennett Nelson Goodman Christine Korsgaard Thomas Nagel Robert Nozick Hilary...
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The View from Nowhere (category Works by Thomas Nagel)
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...
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Mind and Cosmos (category Works by Thomas Nagel)
Almost Certainly False is a 2012 book by the philosopher Thomas Nagel. In this book, Nagel argues that natural and social sciences are unable to account...
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are mutual and interlocked. In Nagel's book The View from Nowhere, he asks: "What kind of fact is it that I am Thomas Nagel?". Subjects have a perspective...
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in moral and political philosophy, including Sibyl A. Schwarzenbach, Thomas Nagel, Allan Gibbard, Onora O'Neill, Adrian Piper, Arnold Davidson, Elizabeth...
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philosopher Thomas Nagel's paper What Is it Like to Be a Bat? is often cited in debates about qualia, though it does not use the word "qualia." Nagel argues...
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Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-511355-6.[page needed] Thomas, Alan (2015). Thomas Nagel. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-49418-8.[page needed] Roberts,...
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[page needed] Further such arguments were notably advanced in the 1970s by Thomas Nagel (1970; 1974) and Robert Kirk (1974), but the general argument was most...
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Science, and Method: Essays in Honor of Ernest Nagel ISBN 9780312607258 (1974) with Virginia Held and Thomas Nagel, Philosophy, Morality, and International...
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his doctoral advisor, Thomas Nagel. His examiners were Gilbert Harman, Adam Elga, John P. Burgess, Alexander Nehamas, and Nagel. Zuboff lectured at the...
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denounced for having acted in this way.[citation needed] According to Thomas Nagel, consequentialism need not be too demanding since it is possible to distinguish...
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Pinker's work as falling in this category. Philosophers John N. Gray and Thomas Nagel have made similar criticisms against popular works by moral psychologist...
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from Princeton University, where he was a student of the philosopher Thomas Nagel. He was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences...
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Fredric Jameson (1934–) Michael Walzer (1935–) Edward Said (1935–2003) Thomas Nagel (1937–) Robert Nozick (1938–2002) Jacques Rancière (1940–) Joxe Azurmendi...
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Jouissance Laissez les bons temps rouler Quality of life François Rabelais Thomas Nagel#Experience itself as a good Wine, women and song Shibles, Warren (1997)...
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evaluated words like the German words "Morgenstern" and "Abendstern". Author Thomas Herbst uses the words "kid" and "child" to illustrate the same concept....
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which is the capacity to feel sensations and emotions. According to Thomas Nagel in his paper "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?", consciousness can refer...
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