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Thomas Nagel and Consciousness. [PDF]

, 2001
"This dissertation mainly concentrates on Thomas Nagel's 1974 paper "What is it like to be a bat?" I examine some of the key ideas and concepts that are contained in this paper, which are chiefly concerned with the phenomenon of consciousness.
Mark Davies
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INADVERTENCIA Y RESPONSABILIDAD MORAL

Ideas y Valores, 2009
En contra de la posición de ciertos filósofos, como Thomas Nagel, defiendo la creencia del sentido común según la cual las personas no son moralmente responsables de aquello que hacen o producen inadvertidamente. Considero qué respuesta podríamos esperar
Harry Frankfurt
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LA COMPASIÓN RIGUROSA DE JOHN RAWLS: UNA BREVE BIOGRAFÍA INTELECTUAL

Praxis Filosófica, 2011
John Rawls puede ser considerado como el filósofo político más importante del siglo veinte. Dedicó su vida a la reflexión, la enseñanza y a escribir sobre el problema de cómo los seres humanos, cuyos intereses y valores los ponen en conflictos ...
Thomas Nagel
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Guidance without ends

Mind &Language, EarlyView.
Attentional guidance plays two crucial roles in temporally extended agency. First, guidance stabilizes attention onto our tasks—and tunes out distractions—for extended periods of time. Second, guidance makes attention telic/atelic. Guidance imposes completion conditions on telic attention (e.g., searching for your keys) but not atelic attention (e.g ...
Zachary C. Irving
wiley   +1 more source

THE FATHERS, COMPUTERS AND US

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay, designed as a complement to opinions expressed by Rowan Williams and some speakers at the conference in his honour, explores features of early Christianity which suggest a positive evaluation of artificial intelligence. Noting that the fear of reducing humans to machines has been joined in the modern age by the fear that machines ...
Mark J. Edwards
wiley   +1 more source

A ÉTICA KANTIANA E A POSSIBILIDADE DO ALTRUÍSMO (THOMAS NAGEL) [PDF]

, 2010
The present article discusses the relation of Th. Nagel’s ethics of altruism with kantian ethics. According to Nagel himself, his position resembles that of Kant in two respects: it defends the thesis of the autonomy of moral motivation, and it bases ...
Stolzenberg, Jürgen, Klotz, Tradutor: Hans Christian   +1 more
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Jean Piaget and Objectivity—Genetic Epistemology’s Place in a View from Nowhere

Proceedings
Science pursues objectivity. According to Thomas Nagel, “we must get outside of ourselves, and view the world from nowhere within it” is the most natural expression of this goal.
Mark A. Winstanley
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Outline of an Uexküllian bio-ontology

Sign Systems Studies, 2001
Traditionally, ontology, or at least western ontology, bas been an anthropocentric enterprise, that takes only human experiences into account. In this paper I argue that a prolific biocentric ontology can be based on UexkülI's Umwelt theory.
Morten Tønnessen
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El debate sobre la justicia social global: Thomas Nagel y el argumento de la coerción legítima [PDF]

, 2016
Este artículo intenta asumir el problema del sentido (meaning) de la justicia social global a partir de una discusión crítica de la posición anti-cosmopolita de Thomas Nagel (2005) --particularmente del argumento de la coerción legítima.
Solís, Mario
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