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托马斯·内格尔

1937年生

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我们永远无法知道做一只蝙蝠是什么样子；主观经验无法被任何客观描述所捕捉。

定位

分析哲学 · 南欧 · 心灵与意识, 伦理学

作为一只蝙蝠是什么样子？主观经验无法由客观描述把握。

核心思想

  • 经验的主观特征
  • 无处的观点

老师: 约翰·罗尔斯

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影响

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  • 路德维希·维特根斯坦

    受其影响

    Nagel met Wittgenstein’s later philosophy at Cornell through Norman Malcolm, Wittgenstein’s student and friend, whose letter introduced him to Anscombe at Oxford in 1958. T. Nagel, review essay on Anscombe, Foot, Midgley and Murdoch, London Review of Books (2022); N. Malcolm, Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Memoir (1958)

    依据: AI 草稿

    路德维希·维特根斯坦 › 1889–1951

  • 约翰·罗尔斯 师从

    师从

    Nagel took his PhD at Harvard in 1963 under Rawls with a dissertation on altruism, the theme of his The Possibility of Altruism (1970). Mathematics Genealogy Project, entry T. Nagel (Harvard 1963)

    依据: 亦见于 InPhO · InPhO

    约翰·罗尔斯 › 1921–2002

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  • 大卫·查尔默斯

    影响了

    Chalmers defined consciousness with Nagel’s phrase that there is ‘something it is like’ to be a subject and made explaining it the ‘hard problem’ (1995). D. J. Chalmers, “Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness”, Journal of Consciousness Studies 2 (1995); The Conscious Mind (1996); T. Nagel, “What Is It Like to Be a Bat?”, Philosophical Review 83 (1974)

    依据: AI 草稿

    大卫·查尔默斯 › 1966年生

批评

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  • 丹尼尔·丹尼特

    受其批评

    Dennett denied Nagel’s claim that subjective experience escapes objective science: much about what it is like to be a bat can be learned (Consciousness Explained, 1991). D. C. Dennett, Consciousness Explained (1991), ch. 14; T. Nagel, “What Is It Like to Be a Bat?”, Philosophical Review 83 (1974); Nagel’s reply: “Is Consciousness an Illusion?”, New York Review of Books, 9 March 2017

    依据: AI 草稿

    丹尼尔·丹尼特 › 1942–2024

作品

立场

Nagel’s central theme is the tension between the subjective and the objective standpoint. In “What Is It Like to Be a Bat?” he argued that conscious experience has a subjective character – there is something it is like to be a bat orienting itself by echolocation – that no objective physical description can capture. Physicalism may be true, but we do not yet understand how it could be. In The View from Nowhere he extended this tension to ethics, freedom and the meaning of life: we can step back and see ourselves from outside, yet never fully leave our own perspective. In Mind and Cosmos he controversially questioned whether neo-Darwinian materialism can explain mind at all. His essays helped revive consciousness as a central problem.

生平与背景

Nagel was born in Belgrade in 1937 and came to the United States as a child. He studied at Cornell, Oxford and Harvard, where he wrote his dissertation under John Rawls. After teaching at Berkeley and Princeton he moved to New York University in 1980. He is known for clear essays that make deep questions accessible to non-specialists.

其他主要作品

  • The Possibility of Altruism (1970)
  • What Is It Like to Be a Bat? (1974)
  • Mortal Questions (1979)
  • Mind and Cosmos (2012)

出现在

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