Husserl and Nagel on subjectivity and the limits of physical objectivity

Continental Philosophy Review 35 (4):353-377 (2002)
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Thomas Nagel argues that the subjective character of mind inevitably eludes philosophical efforts to incorporate the mental into a single, complete, physically objective view of the world. Nagel sees contemporary philosophy as caught on the horns of a dilemma

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