"When the cat hears the doorbell, this must be something going on, literally, in its head, not just in its furry little mind."
— Nagel, Thomas (b. 1937)
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Work Title
Place of Publication
New York and Oxford
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Date
1989
Metaphor
"When the cat hears the doorbell, this must be something going on, literally, in its head, not just in its furry little mind."
Metaphor in Context
But I can't say what might be wrong with it. The mind is after all a biological product. When the cat hears the doorbell, this must be something going on, literally, in its head, not just in its furry little mind. Anyway, I won't directly attack this unformulated problem, which is as much a problem for dualism or physicalism as it is for a dual aspect theory--for they, too, are motivated by the deisre for an integrated conception of a single reality in which the mental and the physical are located in a clear relation to one another.
(p. 31)
(p. 31)
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Reading
Citation
Thomas Nagel, The View from Nowhere (New York and Oxford: Oxford UP, 1986).
Date of Entry
02/02/2012
