View From Nowhere [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910453430903321
• Autore: Nagel Thomas
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford University Press, USA, 1986
• ISBN: 0-19-976992-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (257 p.)
• Disciplina: 121.4
• Soggetti: Philosophy; Philosophy & Religion; Speculative Philosophy; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 VisionVI. 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 WELL1. 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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, each of us is a particular person in a particular place, each with his own ""personal"" view of the world, a view that we can recognize as just one aspect of the whole. How do we reconcile these two standpoints--intellectually, morally, and practically? To what extent are they irreconcilable and to what extent can they be i