Human problems

Author: Thomas Nagel
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Publish Date: 2004-05-01
Features: The mind-body problem becomes is consciousness. Perhaps for this very reason, current discussions of the mind-body problem rarely pay attention to it, or misunderstand it clearly. Recently, reductionists have been and emotionally high, proposing several analyses of psychological phenomena and concepts, aiming to explain some form of materialism, psychophysical identity, or reductionism. The author of this book, Thomas Nagel, is an analytical philosopher, and this book explores fundamental questions about the meaning, nature, and value of life. It is divided into fourteen chapters: Death, Absurdity, Moral Luck, Sexual Perversity, War and Massacre, Indifference in Public Affairs, Preferential Policies, Equality, Incompleteness of Value, Ethics Does Not Need Biology, The Split Brain and the Unity of Consciousness, What It's Like to Be a Bat, Panpsychism, Subjective and Objective. The book is highly original and thought-provoking, with vivid arguments.