Organon F
Volume 28, November 2021, Issue 4, Pages 802–818
ISSN 2585-7150 (online) ISSN 1335-0668 (print)
Research Article
A Novel Reading of Thomas Nagel’s “Challenge” to Physicalism
Serdal Tümkaya
https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2021.28403
In passing remarks, some commentators have noted that for Nagel, physicalism is true. It has even been argued that Nagel seeks to find the best path to follow to achieve future physicalism. I advance these observations by adding that for Nagel, we should discuss the consciousness problem not in terms of physical and mental issues but in terms of our desire to include consciousness in an objective/scientific account, and we can achieve this only by revising our self-conception, i.e., folk psychology, to develop a more detached view of experience. Through the project of objective phenomenology, Nagel aims to achieve some sort of objective, detached, and scientific explanation of the subjective nature of experience. This project seeks to make the truth of physicalism intelligible and consciousness more amenable to scientific study, potentially raising an even broader concept than the one physicalism originally proposes.
Folk psychology; Nagel; objective phenomenology; physicalism; science of consciousness.
Author
Serdal Tümkaya
Affiliation
Middle East Technical University and Ardahan University
Address
Ardahan University Yenisey Kampüsü, Çamlıçatak, Ardahan Department of Philosophy, 75002 Ardahan, Turkey
Received
12 June 2020
Accepted
18 November 2020
Published online
29 December 2020
Publishers
Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences
Institute of Philosophy of the Czech Academy of Sciences
APA
Tümkaya, S. (2021). A Novel Reading of Thomas Nagel’s “Challenge” to Physicalism". Organon F, 28(4), 802–818. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2021.28403
Chicago
Tümkaya, Serdal. 2021. "A Novel Reading of Thomas Nagel’s “Challenge” to Physicalism"." Organon F 28 (4): 802–818. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2021.28403
Harvard
Tümkaya, S. (2021). A Novel Reading of Thomas Nagel’s “Challenge” to Physicalism". Organon F, 28(4), pp. 802–818. https://doi.org/10.31577/orgf.2021.28403
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