A novel reading of Thomas Nagel’s “Challenge” to physicalism

Title:

A novel reading of Thomas Nagel’s “Challenge” to physicalism

Creator:

Tümkaya, Serdal

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:1501ff08-e8b0-42f6-9d18-75d7a322aca6
uuid:1501ff08-e8b0-42f6-9d18-75d7a322aca6
doi:10.31577/orgf.2021.28403

Subject:

folk psychology, Nagel, objective phenomenology, physicalism, and science of consciousness

Type:

model:article and TEXT

Format:

bez média and svazek

Description:

In passing remarks, some commentators have noted that for Nagel, physicalism is true. It has even been argued that Nagel seeks to find the best path to follow to achieve future physicalism. I advance these observations by adding that for Nagel, we should discuss the consciousness problem not in terms of physical and mental issues but in terms of our desire to include consciousness in an objective/scientific account, and we can achieve this only by revising our self-conception, i.e., folk psychology, to develop a more detached view of experience. Through the project of objective phenomenology, Nagel aims to achieve some sort of objective, detached, and scientific explanation of the subjective nature of experience. This project seeks to make the truth of physicalism intelligible and consciousness more amenable to scientific study, potentially raising an even broader concept than the one physicalism originally proposes.

Language:

Slovak

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
policy:public

Coverage:

802-818

Source:

Organon F: filozofický časopis | 2021 Volume:28 | Number:4

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