Thomas Nagel

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Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most advanced and interesting characteristics. ↗


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I should not really object to dying were it not followed by death. ↗


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Life may be not only meaningless but absurd. ↗


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There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality. ↗


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Consciousness is what makes the mind-body problem really intractable. ↗


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1970 "Death" Nous pp. 1970 "Armstrong on the Mind" Philosophical Review pp.  112-6.

His main areas of philosophical interest are philosophy of mind political philosophy and ethics. Continuing his critique of reductionism he is the author of Mind and Cosmos (2012) in which he argues against a reductionist view and specifically the neo-Darwinian view of the emergence of consciousness.