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	Thomas Nagel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thomas Nagel (born July 4, 1937, in Belgrade, Serbia) is University Professor of Philosophy and Law at New York University and member of the Board of Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica.
		Nagel, along with Bernard Williams, has also contributed much to the early development of the problem of moral luck, detailing its various aspects, and analyzing its impact on ethics and moral evaluation.
		Nagel first argued that the subjective experience of consciousness can never be attained through the objective methods of reductionistic science.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thomas_Nagel (407 words)

	Moral Luck [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Nagel suggests that the intuition is correct and lies at the heart of the notion of morality, but he also endorses the view that luck will inevitably influence a person's moral standing.
		Nagel does briefly refer to the problem of moral luck as a "fundamental problem about moral responsibility," but most of the time his worries are about 'blame', a notion with overtones of both sorts of moral difference.
		Nagel's example is of a person who lives in Germany during the Second World War and "behaves badly." (Nagel, 1993, 65) We are surely inclined to blame such a person, to hold him or her responsible for what he or she did.
	www.utm.edu /research/iep/m/moralluc.htm (7748 words)

	FT June/July 1999: The Last Word [Book Review] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Nagel does not, of course, wish to deny that this is the right way to characterize some of our beliefs, but he thinks it mistaken—and sometimes self—contradictory—to offer a subjectivist account of everything we believe.
		Nagel distinguishes his view from a standard reading of Des cartes by granting that reason does not carry with it any absolute certainty; it is not foundationalist in that sense, nor does it give us some set of unrevisable beliefs.
		Nagel, of course, has not taken such a step, but in understanding the issue as one not only of intellect but of will, he sees something very important indeed.
	www.firstthings.com /ftissues/ft9906/reviews/meilaender.html (1349 words)

	Richard Rorty, Thomas Nagel, and the Platonic Myth
		Given that Nagel's response to this reaction is confined to this one statement, found in a footnote, Nagel does not seem to share Moore's philosophical optimism in crossing the abyss.
		Nagel, according to Rorty, is an intuitive realist, one who argues that philosophical problems do not arise merely from language or the clash of vocabularies.
		Nagel opposes both the physicalist rejection of the incorrigibility of first-person states and Wittgenstein's rejection of the Cartesian tradition, again arguing that the existence of intuitions indicates something more fundamental about consciousness than third-person brain states and culturally-limited vocabularies.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/billramey/rorty.htm (1593 words)

	Nagel, Thomas - Concealment and Exposure and Other Essays - Reviewed by John Gardner, University College, Oxford - ...
		But Nagel seems to rule out such a division of moral labour with his more sweeping prioritization of justice: âto appeal to it is to claim priority over other valuesâ (113).
		Nagelâs sensitivity to Cohenâs challenge may also reflect a shared appreciation of the relative impotence of the liberal state in the face of an inhospitable public culture.
		This claim is rather undertheorised until Nagel links it with Kammâs modest agent-relativism, which he presents in support of a kind of citadel of the soul, not amenable to public moral scrutiny or sacrifice.
	ndpr.nd.edu /review.cfm?id=1365 (2073 words)

	Review of Nagel, Other Minds
		Nagel is above all else a philosophical traditionalist, someone who sees philosophy as discontinuous with science, a method of inquiry that is deeper and purer, a bulwark against superficial enthusiasms engendered by the latest buzzwords.
		Nagel is just as sure that we Quinians are missing the big, deep problems, providing only superficial "solutions" to them, as we are sure that he is enamored of a false profundity, the comforting frisson of midnight bull sessions, perhaps.
		Nagel closes his introductory essay with some reflections on an awkward question once raised by Bernard Williams: "What is the point of doing philosophy if you're not extraordinarily good at it?" In the "Epistle to the Reader" of his Essay Concerning Human Understanding, John Locke modestly compared himself to "the incomparable Mr.
	ase.tufts.edu /cogstud/papers/nagel.htm (1383 words)

	Nagel Thomas - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Nagel, Thomas (1937- ), American philosopher and political thinker.
		Born in the former Yugoslavia, Nagel was educated at Cornell, Oxford, and...
		The American philosopher Thomas Nagel has famously illustrated the point by asking what it is like to be a bat.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Nagel_Thomas.html (113 words)

	Study Questions on Nagel
		When reading Nagel's paper, it is especially important to keep track of whose view he is describing — his own, or someone else's.
		Nagel distinguishes four kinds of cases in which (a) we offer moral praise or blame, even though (b) the condition of control entails that moral praise or blame is unwarranted.
		On page 467, column 2, paragraph1, Nagel draws a parallel between the situation he is discussing in ethics, and another situation in the theory of knowledge.
	www.uic.edu /classes/phil/phil100e/study_questions_nagel.htm (358 words)

	Amazon.de: Equality and Partiality: English Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Nagel here attempts to clarify the nature of the conflict and to show that its reconciliation is the essential task of any legitimate political system.
		Nagel points to the problem of balancing equality and partiality as the most important issue with which political theorists are now faced.
		Nagel takes the view that their are certain impartial values that call us to action, that the personal view entails a partiality toward one's own goals that does not adequately constitute a moral point of view.
	www.amazon.de /exec/obidos/ASIN/0195069676 (1487 words)

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		As Nagel wrote in a famous paper, we can learn all about the brain mechanisms of a bat's sonar system without having the slightest idea of what it is like to have the sonar experiences of a bat.
		Nagel stresses the possibility that the human brain may be inadequate to fully understand the world and therefore itself.
		Nagel thinks that identity comes from the (physical) brain, since it is the only part of a body that a person would not survive without.
	www.thymos.com /mind/n.html (2365 words)

	Amazon.de: The Last Word: English Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In The Last Word, Thomas Nagel argues against what he calls subjectivism, "a general tendency to reduce the objective pretensions of reason." On his enemies list are the architects of postmodernism, social scientists with delusions of grandeur, and philosophers ranging from Hume and Kant to W.V. Quine and Richard Rorty.
		Nagel is an atheist who nevertheless recognizes that his somewhat Platonic commitment to reason, and in particular to a Peircian belief in an objective "order of.
		As Nagel himself notes not far from the outset of his book, the knowledge that subjectivism is self-refuting may be as "old as the hills," but it seems that it cannot be too often repeated.
	www.amazon.de /exec/obidos/ASIN/0195149831 (1160 words)

	Thomas Nagel - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Thomas Nagel is a professor of philosophy at New York University.
		He is known within philosophy of mind as an advocate of the idea that consciousness and subjective experience cannot be reduced to brain activity.
		(The question, though often attributed to Nagel, was originally posed by Timothy L.S. Sprigge.) This article was originally published in 1974 in the journal The Philosophical Review but has since been reprinted in several books that are concerned with consciousness and the mind, such as The Mind's I by Daniel Dennett and Douglas Hofstadter.
	encyclopedia.learnthis.info /t/th/thomas_nagel.html (217 words)

	Thomas Nagel - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Thomas Nagel (born July 4, 1937, in Belgrade, Serbia) is Professor of Philosophy and Law at New York University and member of the Board of Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica.
		Nagel taught briefly at the University of California at Berkeley and for many years at Princeton University before moving to New York University in the early 1980s.
		Nagel, along with Bernard Williams, has contributed much to the early development of the problem of moral luck, detailing its various aspects, and analyzing its impact on ethics and moral evaluation.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Thomas_Nagel (441 words)

	Amazon.com: The View From Nowhere: Books: Thomas Nagel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Thomas Nagel's ambitious and lively book tackles this fundamental issue, arguing that our divided nature is the root of a whole range of philosophical problems, touching, as it does, every aspect of human life.
		Nagel treats most of the traditional "solutions" to the problems of philosophy as based on two general tactics for dealing with the tension between objectivity and subjectivity.
		Nagel agrees that the sciences do provide us with an objective conception of the world, and with an objective conception of the world that is likely to be largely accurate.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0195056442?v=glance (2903 words)

	Thomas Nagel‘s Fashionable Nonsense
		However, although Nagel eschews the derisory words, “amusing“ and “abuse“, his “that was an isolated instance” parrots the unsubstantiated claim that the Derrida quote is nonsense.
		Nagel does deviate from the text when he says that Derrida is “conspicuously absent” from the book “except for one quote in the original parody.”
		Instead of making the same conflation himself elsewhere, Nagel would do better to seek cases that are framed in terms of denial and in which non-acceptance does not suffice for the ‘critic of objectivity’; to make her point.
	math.bu.edu /people/nk/rr/tn.html (9222 words)

	WHY IS what is it like to be a bat?
		Therefore, Nagel, rather grandly concludes, physicalism is in trouble, for the recalcitrant subjective experience of being a bat is forever beyond us.
		Perhaps this is because Nagel supposes himself in an infinite jungle of such truths, fearing more that he will be buried in a truthful fruitfall than eager for such enlightenment.
		Nagel is, as Montaigne was, in much the same position as the Wittgenstein of whom Ramsey remarked, "If you can't say it, you can't whistle it either." For he wishes both to make it out that bats have a lively subjectivity and that its character is also forever beyond our grasp.
	www.kitbraz.com /bndl/bat/why.html (1378 words)

	“Value” by Thomas Nagel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Thomas Nagel’s essay entitled “Value” argues for the objectivity of some values.
		Nagel argues that “our claims about value and about what people have reason to do may be true or false independently of our beliefs or inclinations” (140).
		The final argument Nagel refutes against realism about value claims that even if normative values are admitted as a possibility, cultural and social variation would deem them meaningless.
	web.uvic.ca /~cmacleod/es8.htm (1032 words)

	Alibris: Thomas Nagel
		In this down-to-earth, nonhistorical guide, Thomas Nagel, the distinguished author of Mortal Questions and The View From Nowhere, brings philosophical problems to life, revealing in vivid, accessible prose why they have continued to fascinate and baffle thinkers across the centuries...
		Derived from Thomas Nagel's Locke Lectures, Equality and Partiality proposes a nonutopian account of political legitimacy, based on the need to accommodate both personal and impersonal motives in any credible moral theory, and therefore in any political theory with a moral foundation.
		Thomas Nagel is widely recognized as one of the top American philosophers working today.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Nagel,Thomas (706 words)

	BrothersJudd.com - Review of Thomas Nagel's The Last Word
		Nagel does something unusually forthright when he retreats to the redoubt of Cartesianism to make his stand in defense of reason.
		Nagel, who had, less eloquently, but perhaps no less convincingly, gotten us to the point where we accept that objective truths do seem to exist somehow.
		Nagel arrives us at is that moral reasoning is just as "fundamental and inescapable" as scientific or logical reasoning.
	www.brothersjudd.com /index.cfm/fuseaction/reviews.detail/book_id/1344 (4399 words)

	Lecture Supplement on Thomas Nagel’s “Moral Luck” [1979]
		The problem Nagel points out, however, is that when we consider the sorts of things that influence us [296] "Ultimately, nothing or almost nothing about what a person does seems to be under his control." That is, everything we do seems at some level to involve luck.
		Nagel uses a variety of examples, however, to draw attention to the fact that [295] "what we do depends in manywayson what is not under our control." Thus he distinguishes between the reckless driver who hits a pedestrian and one who doesn’t, pointing out that the difference
		It should be noted, however, that Nagel recognizes that his discussion here is merely suggestive, and he does not contend that he can fully address the paradox (and I will not try to go beyond Nagel’s sketchy suggestions).
	www.fiu.edu /~hauptli/ThomasNagelsMoralLuckSupplement.htm (3209 words)

	What Does It All Mean? A Very Short Introduction to Philosophy Paperback by Thomas Nagel ISBN 0195052161
		Nagel does an outstanding job of introducing the basic questions of philosophy without weighing them down with dogma.
		Thomas Nagel (if you're involved in philosophy you've likely heard of him) also adds in some interesting passages.
		And one should heed Nagel's statement in the introduction that "...if I say what I think, you have no reason to believe it unless you find it convincing." Nagel's observation that we may in fact be in more trouble if there is an afterlife than if there isn't is particularly intriguing.
	www.cheapesttextbooks.com /reviews/0195052161.html (1282 words)

	The Buck Stops Here: Thomas Nagel on "A Priori" Belief
		A reader draws my attention to this essay by NYU professor Thomas Nagel, who is perhaps most famous within the philosophical world for his classic paper What Is It Like To Be a Bat?
		Although I seem to be constitutionally incapable of religious belief, I find the contemptuous attitude toward it on the part of prominent secular defenders of evolutionary naturalism intellectually unreasonable.
		Among the observed biological facts are any number of instances of (as Darwin noted) appalling waste and cruelty; apparent botches; and mystifyingly arbitrary facts (e.g., the huge number of beatles).
	stuartbuck.blogspot.com /2005/10/thomas-nagel-on-priori-belief.html (1313 words)

	"Concealment and Exposure" by Thomas Nagel
		A more inflammatory case: Clarence Thomas's nomination to the Supreme Court could have been legitimately rejected by the Senate on grounds of competence and judicial philosophy, but I believe the challenge on the basis of his sexual victimization of Anita Hill was quite unjustified, even though I'm sure it was all true.
		But that is no excuse for abandoning the private-public distinction: This sort of bad personal conduct is completely irrelevant to the occupation of a position of public trust, and if the press hadn't made an issue of it, the Senate Judiciary Committee might have been able to ignore the rumors.
		It is true that Hill was his professional subordinate, but his essential fault was being personally crude and offensive: It was no more relevant than would have been a true charge of serious maltreatment from his ex-wife.
	www.nyu.edu /gsas/dept/philo/faculty/nagel/papers/exposure.html (10310 words)

	Amherst College News Release: Amherst Joins Liberal Arts Colleges in Support of Affirmative Action
		AMHERST, Mass.- Thomas Nagel, professor of philosophy and law at the New York University School of Law, will speak on "Moral Realism and Moral Objectivity" on Thursday, April 3, at 4:30 p.m.
		This talk, sponsored by the Department of Philosophy at Amherst College and the Forry Fund in Philosophy and Science as part of a series on "Objectivity in Science and Ethics," will be free and open to the public.
		Nagel is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the British Academy, and has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
	www.amherst.edu /~pubaff/news/news_releases/02/nagel02.html (179 words)

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