The view from nowhere /
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,...
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1986.
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Table of Contents:
- 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 Vision
- VI. 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 WELL
- 1. 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
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