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The Challenge of Otherness: J.M. Coetzee vs. Thomas Nagel [PDF]

The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series
Carlo Salzani
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Luck in Aristotle's Physics and Ethics [PDF]

, 2015
I discuss how Aristotle’s formulation of the problem of moral luck relates to his natural philosophy. I review well-known passages from Nicomachean Ethics I/X and Eudemian Ethics I/VII and Physics II, but in the main focus on EE VII 14 (= VIII 2).
Johnson, Monte
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Interpersonal justice as partial justice

European Law Open, 2022
Despite being sympathetic to the aim of Martijn Hesselink’s paper to explore how private law might be used to tackle gross inequalities, it is argued that private law is based fundamentally on the moral principles of interpersonal justice, which being a ...
Hugh Collins
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Chomsky e a linguística cartesiana Chomsky and the cartesian linguistics

Trans/Form/Ação, 2010
Este artigo tem por objetivo apresentar e examinar criticamente alguns dos principais argumentos fornecidos pelo linguista norte-americano Noam Chomsky, em favor da tese da origem inata de uma gramática universal, usualmente associada à tradição ...
Candice Glenday
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Qualia e Umwelt

Revista de Filosofia, 2010
No seu famoso artigo “What is it like to be a bat?” (1974), Thomas Nagel sustenta que existe um ‘ponto de vista’ característico e inescrutável, não acessível objetivamente na experiência, que determina o sentido da própria experiência como evento mental.
Arthur Araújo
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Restricted Prioritarianism or Competing Claims? [PDF]

, 2016
I here settle a recent dispute between two rival theories in distributive ethics: Restricted Prioritarianism and the Competing Claims View. Both views mandate that the distribution of benefits and burdens between individuals should be
Lange, Benjamin
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Rescatando al sujeto: Una perspectiva budista sobre los estudios de la conciencia

Revista Humanidades, 2015
Este ensayo destaca la importancia del sujeto en los estudios de la conciencia.  Inicia con el “problema duro” del nexo psicofísico según David Chalmers, Thomas Nagel y Colin McGinn.
Katherine Masís Iverson
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A Rereading of Thomas Nigel's View of the Meaning of Life Based on the Function of Life [PDF]

پژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2022
The contemporary analytic philosopher, Thomas Nagel, contends that the strong human disposition to harmonize with the universe raises a genuine question as to the relationship of human beings with the whole existence. This question, in his mind, ought to
Mohamad Mahdi Sotude, Mohammad Reza Bayat   +1 more
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“What is it like to be a bat?”—a pathway to the answer from the integrated information theory [PDF]

, 2017
What does it feel like to be a bat? Is conscious experience of echolocation closer to that of vision or audition? Or do bats process echolocation nonconsciously, such that they do not feel anything about echolocation?
Naotsugu, Tsuchiya
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Dlaczego śmierć nie jest taka zła?

Studia Warmińskie, 2019
Celem artykułu jest próba odpowiedzi na pytanie o to, dlaczego śmierć nie jest taka zła. Autor twierdzi, że śmierć niekoniecznie musi być aż tak zła, jak to opisują Thomas Nagel czy Jeff  McMahan. Według autora śmierć nie jest absolutnym złem, nie ma też
Marcin Ferdynus
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