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What Is It Like to Be a Bat? - Thomas Nagel

What Is It Like to Be a Bat?

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Buch | Hardcover
80 Seiten
2024
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-775279-1 (ISBN)
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This book is a fiftieth anniversary republication of Thomas Nagel's
A 50th anniversary edition of one of the most widely influential articles of 20th Century philosophy

“Consciousness is what makes the mind-body problem really intractable.” So begins Thomas Nagel's classic 1974 essay “What is it Like to be a Bat?” Nagel's essay initiated the now widespread attention to consciousness as a central problem for philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience; it also influenced the recognition of the consciousness of nonhuman creatures as an important subject of study. Nagel argued that the essential subjectivity of conscious experience -- what it is like for the creature undergoing it -- means that reductionist theories of mind, which attempt to analyze it in physical terms, can never succeed. It follows that the physical sciences cannot provide a complete description of reality, and that the physical conception of objective reality must be transcended if science is going to comprehend the mind.

This edition reissues this classic and widely influential article on its 50th anniversary, along with a new preface discussing the origins and influence of the essay, as well as “Further Thoughts: The Psychophysical Nexus,” a supplementary essay which describes Nagel's later thoughts about how to respond to the problem posed by “What Is It Like to Be a Bat?” This second essay suggests that the most promising path forward for the mind-body problem, if one accepts the irreducible subjectivity of consciousness, is to seek a necessary connection between mental and neurophysiogical states through a more fundamental type of state which is neither mental nor physical but necessitates them both as essential aspects. In other words, a state that is physical from the outside and mental from the inside, just as we are. This would be a form of monism, requiring the formation of new concepts, since our present concepts of the mental and the physical do not entail such a necessary connection. The essay explains why the relation between the mental and the physical may be necessary, even though our present concepts make it appear contingent.

Thomas Nagel was educated at Cornell, Oxford, and Harvard, and has taught philosophy at Berkeley, Princeton, and New York University -- finally as University Professor in the Department of Philosophy and the School of Law at NYU. His extensive writings deal with ethics, political theory, philosophy of mind, epistemology, and the meaning of life. Among his books are The View from Nowhere and Mind and Cosmos.

Preface
1. "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?"
2. "Further Thoughts: The Psychophysical Nexus"

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 109 x 165 mm
Gewicht 159 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Biopsychologie / Neurowissenschaften
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Verhaltenstherapie
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Humanbiologie
Naturwissenschaften Biologie Zoologie
ISBN-10 0-19-775279-9 / 0197752799
ISBN-13 978-0-19-775279-1 / 9780197752791
Zustand Neuware
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