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by Thomas Nagel. 244 pgs.

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Contributors:

   Thomas Nagel

Publisher:

   Oxford University Press

Place of Publication:

  New York  

Publication Year:

  1989
Subjects:   Objectivity
Table of contents
I. INTRODUCTION 3
II. MIND 13
. Physical Objectivity 13
2. Mental Objectivity 17
3. Other Minds 19
4. Consciousness in General 22
. The Incompleteness of Objective Reality 25
III. MIND AND BODY 28
1. Dual Aspect Theory 28
2. The Self as Private Object 32
3. Personal Identity and Reference 37
4. Parfit 43
. Kripke 46
6. Panpsychism and Mental Unity 49
7. The Possibility of Progress 51
IV. THE OBJECTIVE SELF 54
. Being Someone 54
2. A Semantic Diagnosis 57
3. The Centerless View 60
V. KNOWLEDGE 67
1. Skepticism 67
2. Antiskepticism 71
3. Self-transcendence 74
4. Evolutionary Epistemology 78
5. Rationalism 82
6. Double Vision 86
VI. THOUGHT AND REALITY 90
1. Realism 90
2. Idealism 93
3. Kant and Strawson 99
4. Wittgenstein 105
VII. FREEDOM 110
1. Two Problems 110
2. Autonomy 113
3. Responsibility 120
4. Strawson on Freedom 124
5. The Blind Spot 126
6. Objective Engagement 130
7. Morality as Freedom 134
VIII. VALUE 138
1. Realism and Objectivity 138
2. Antirealism 143
3. Desires and Reasons 149
4. Types of Generality 152
5. Pleasure and Pain 156
6. Overobjectification 162
IX. ETHICS 164
1. Three Kinds of Agent-relativity 164
2. Reasons of Autonomy 166
3. Personal Values and Impartiality 171
4. Deontology 175
5. Agents and Victims 180
6. Moral Progress 185
X. LIVING RIGHT AND LIVING WELL 189
1. Williams's Question 189
2. Antecedents 193
3. Five Alternatives 195
4. The Moral, the Rational, and the Supererogatory 200
5. Politics and Conversion 204
XI. BIRTH, DEATH, AND THE MEANING OF LIFE 208
1. Life 208
2. Meaning 214
3. Death 223
Bibliography 233
Index 239
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Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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