He claimed that "conceptual truths may or may not be necessary truths" in a paper which attempted to answer questions posed at the end of Naming and Necessity, "Psychophysical Nexus"; and mused on President Clinton's impeachment, the Sokal hoax, and Richard Rorty in Concealment and Exposure. An early work of his revives Kan
He claimed that "conceptual truths may or may not be necessary truths" in a paper which attempted to answer questions posed at the end of Naming and Necessity, "Psychophysical Nexus"; and mused on President Clinton's impeachment, the Sokal hoax, and Richard Rorty in Concealment and Exposure. An early work of his revives Kantian notions of ethics in arguing for a rational type of the titular behavior, and the title of another of his books, which talks about "dual aspect theory" and refers to a "strain of idealism" in contemporary philosophy, refers to the attempt to find a truly objective conception of reality.  His most notable work cites Davidson's anomalous monism, and chooses its central figure due to having a "sensory apparatus" strikingly different than man so as to illustrate the centrality of the "subjective character of experience" to the mind-body problem.  FTP, name this author of The View From Nowhere and The Possibility of Altruism who argued against reductionism using the example of a chiropterist in his paper "What Is It Like To Be A Bat?"
He claimed that "conceptual truths may or may not be necessary truths" in a paper which attempted to answer questions posed at the end of Naming and Necessity, "Psychophysical Nexus"; and mused on President Clinton's impeachment, the Sokal hoax, and Richard Rorty in Concealment and Exposure.
Thomas {Nagel}