Physicalism

T Nagel - The Philosophical Review, 1965 - JSTOR
… This, so far as I can see, is the source of my uneasiness about physicalism. Unfortunately,
whatever its merits, it is no more an argument against physicalism than against most other …

Nagel's case against Physicalism

P Sundström - 2002 - degruyter.com
Nagel’s influential case against physicalism in the philosophy of mind. I show that Nagel has
… cannot be “apprehended” or “observed” from a third-person perspective. I also show that …

Physicalism and the subjectivity of the mental

R Van Gulick - Philosophical Topics, 1985 - JSTOR
… result and may indeed provide additional support for a species of functionalistic physicalism
consider Nagel's argument for the weaker claim, if only to disentangle and distinguish it from

Nagasawa vs. Nagel: Omnipotence, Pseudo‐Tasks, and a Recent Discussion of Nagel's Doubts About Physicalism

M Gorman - Inquiry, 2005 - Taylor & Francis
… Nagasawa bases his discussion of Nagel primarily on Nagel's “What is it Like to be a Bat?”
He notes that this paper contains no explicit argument against physicalism, but he also notes …

The perils of physicalism

J Margolis - Mind, 1973 - JSTOR
… -as by JJC Smart,2 Thomas Nagel,3 Jerry Fodor4-is that it … arguments, here, tend to vary
somewhat), whereas we seem to be able to locate physical states straightforwardly. Nagel, for …

[PDF][PDF] Nagel, Jackson, and Physicalism

S Huizar - Prologue: A First-Year Writing Journal, 2012 - digitalcommons.denison.edu
arguments are taken into account in her objection. In analyzing the counter-argument to
Jackson and Nagel… of how this argument still presents dilemma’s to Jackson and Nagel. Overall, …

Physicalism and subjectivity

J Kekes - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 1977 - JSTOR
Nagel's argument is that it is impossible to see, at any rate, just yet, how a physicalistic
analysis could accommodate this component which is both essential and subjective. …

Defining physicalism

A Ney - Philosophy Compass, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
… want to say that physicalism was violated in this case. Either way… However, the legacy of
physicalism stems from a desire to … evident in Thomas Nagel's concerns about physicalism in his …

Why Physicalism?

W Seager - Mind and Matter, 2014 - ingentaconnect.com
… While no argument for the truth of physicalism, I think a desire for affinity with science is a …
Nagel quite explicitly highlights our complete lack of understanding of how the physical …

A Novel Reading of Thomas Nagel's “Challenge” to Physicalism

S Tümkaya - Organon F, 2021 - ceeol.com
arguments for the conclusion that physicalism must be false. … , from this passage, we see that
Nagel has been a physicalist in as … for Nagel is that we cannot fully understand physicalism. …