The view from nowhere

The view from nowhere /

Human beings have the unique ability to view the world in a detached way: We can think about the world in terms that transcend our own experience or interest, and consider the world from a vantage point that is, in Nagel's words, ""nowhere in particular"". At the same time,...

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Main Author: Nagel, Thomas, 1937-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1986
Subjects:
Objectivity.
Mind and body.
Ethics.
Life.
Ethics
Life
ethics (philosophy)
vitas (biographies)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • I. INTRODUCTION
  • II. MIND
  • 1. Physical Objectivity
  • 2. Mental Objectivity
  • 3. Other Minds
  • 4. Consciousness in General
  • 5. The Incompleteness of Objective Reality
  • III. MIND AND BODY
  • 1. Dual Aspect Theory
  • 2. The Self as Private Object
  • 3. Personal Identity and Reference
  • 4. Parfit
  • 5. Kripke
  • 6. Panpsychism and Mental Unity
  • 7. The Possibility of Progress
  • IV. THE OBJECTIVE SELF
  • 1. Being Someone
  • 2. A Semantic Diagnosis
  • 3. The Centerless View
  • V. KNOWLEDGE
  • 1. Skepticism
  • 2. Antiskepticism
  • 3. Self-transcendence.
  • 4. Evolutionary Epistemology
  • 5. Rationalism
  • 6. Double Vision
  • VI. THOUGHT AND REALITY
  • 1. Realism
  • 2. Idealism
  • 3. Kant and Strawson
  • 4. Wittgenstein
  • VII. FREEDOM
  • 1. Two Problems
  • 2. Autonomy
  • 3. Responsibility
  • 4. Strawson on Freedom
  • 5. The Blind Spot
  • 6. Objective Engagement
  • 7. Morality as Freedom
  • VIII. VALUE
  • 1. Realism and Objectivity
  • 2. Antirealism
  • 3. Desires and Reasons
  • 4. Types of Generality
  • 5. Pleasure and Pain
  • 6. Overobjectification
  • IX. ETHICS
  • 1. Three Kinds of Agent-relativity
  • 2. Reasons of Autonomy.
  • 3. Personal Values and Impartiality
  • 4. Deontology
  • 5. Agents and Victims
  • 6. Moral Progress
  • X. LIVING RIGHT AND LIVING WELL
  • 1. Williams's Question
  • 2. Antecedents
  • 3. Five Alternatives
  • 4. The Moral, the Rational, and the Supererogatory
  • 5. Politics and Conversion
  • XI. BIRTH, DEATH, AND THE MEANING OF LIFE
  • 1. Life
  • 2. Meaning
  • 3. Death
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • I
  • J
  • K
  • L
  • M
  • N
  • O
  • P
  • Q
  • R
  • S
  • T
  • U
  • V
  • W.

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