One thinker with this last name explains why it's impossible for a penny to
One thinker with this last name explains why it's impossible for a penny to have two different diameters in his essay "Logic Without Ontology," and collected other essays in his book Sovereign Reason. He presents four patterns of explanation – the teleological, genetic, probabilistic, and deductive – and he writes that that the clash between instrumentalist and realist "views of theory" is simply a conflict over "preferred modes of speech." Along with James Newman, he authored the book Godel's Proof, and he collaborated with his teacher Morris Raphael Cohen on another work, but he's best known for the 1961 book The Structure of Science. Another thinker with this last name provides a "very short introduction to philosophy" in his book What Does It All Mean?, and elsewhere explains how humans come to adopt a perspective he calls the "View From Nowhere." FTP, give the surname of the author of The Possibility of Altruism, or the surname of Austrian-born philosopher of science Ernest, the former of whom asked "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?"
One thinker with this last name explains why it's impossible for a penny to have two different diameters in his essay "Logic Without Ontology," and collected other essays in his book Sovereign Reason.
{Nagel} (accept Ernest Nagel or Thomas Nagel)