This thinker claimed that human life is characterized by a discrepancy between pretension and reality, which is the title concept of his essay "The Absurd."
This thinker claimed that human life is characterized by a discrepancy between pretension and reality, which is the title concept of his essay "The Absurd." A collection of essays by this man is prefaced with a work that analyzes how philosophy's problems arise from the objective and the subjective viewpoint, leading this thinker to propose the titular construct. This thinker extended a Bernard Williams concept in formulating resultant, circumstantial, constitutive, and causal types of "moral luck." In another essay, this thinker who wrote The View from Nowhere claimed that "Consciousness is what makes the mind-body problem really intractable" and that essay offers a physicalist view of the subjectivity of consciousness. For 10 points, identify this philosopher based at New York University who wrote "What is it like to be a Bat?"
This thinker claimed that human life is characterized by a discrepancy between pretension and reality, which is the title concept of his essay "The Absurd."
Thomas Nagel