Thomas Nagel
Thomas Nagel
Thomas Nagelis an American philosopher, currently University Professor of Philosophy and Law Emeritus at New York University in the NYU Department of Philosophy, where he has taught since 1980. His main areas of philosophical interest are philosophy of mind, political philosophy and ethics...
NationalityYugoslavian
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth4 July 1937
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conceited psychology may
A person may be greedy, envious, cowardly, cold, ungenerous, unkind, vain, or conceited, but behave perfectly by a monumental act of the will.
wake-up world waking
The great cognitive shift is an expansion of consciousness from the perspectival form contained in the lives of particular creatures to an objective, world-encompassing form that exists both individually and intersubjectively. It was originally a biological evolutionary process, and in our species it has become a collective cultural process as well. Each of our lives is a part of the lengthy process of the universe gradually waking up and becoming aware of itself.
imagination murder commit
Everyone is entitled to commit murder in the imagination once in a while, not to mention lesser infractions.
dying should objects
I should not really object to dying were it not followed by death.
ifs-and consciousness states
fundamentally an organism has conscious mental states if and only if there is something that it is like to be that organism--something it is like for the organism.
occupation life-is intense
Leading a human life is a full-time occupation, to which everyone devotes decades of intense concern.