This is why we should not ever regard the subjective standpoint as useless as it contributes first-person accurate ontologies, softens the blow of deterministic ideas and is the subject of the ethical theories it proposes. Thomas Nagel's ambitious and lively book tackles this fundamental issue, arguing that our divided nature is the root of a whole range of philosophical problems, touching, as it does, every aspect of human life. He also presupposes a high level of familiarity with Western philosophy on the part of the reader, regularly launching into critiques and commentary on Kant, Wittgenstein, and others with hardly a cursory outline of their various theories and ideas. Niemniej jednak, jakikolwiek czas spędzony na analizie filozofii Nagela nie jest w mojej opinii czasem straconym. News sources can protect their entire audience from this effect if all reporters stories are reviewed by editors who use a quality checklist for all stories which includes an assessment of the false neutrality bias of view-from-nowhere reporting. Still, I'm looking forward to making another running start at this book and others by Nagel; it's difficult for me not to be won over by a thinker who authors the following: "Eventually, I believe, current attempts to understand the mind by analogy with man-made computers that can perform superbly some of the same external tasks as conscious beings will be recognized as a gigantic waste of time," (p. 16) and "Evolutionary (explanation) is an example of the tendency to take a theory which has been successful in one domain and apply it to anything else you can't understand--not even to apply it, but vaguely to imagine such an application." The "view from nowhere" is the human attempt to get beyond a me-centred world-view, as a basis for all the components of civilization. by Oxford University Press, USA The goal of objective and unbiased reporting ("just the facts"), often leaves subjective decisions about the evaluation of competing facts in a news report up to the audience. The book is dense but has a wondeful conclusion in its last chapter, a true lesson of life and death.The paradox of lloking at the world from our perspective and then trying to do so from an objective perspective is unbeareabe, but Thomas Nagel gets to explain it with a hint of hope. He definitely doesn't aim low; chapter headings include "Mind and Body," "Thought and Reality," "Freedom," "LFascinating and challenging work in which Nagel, whose brief paper "What is it Like to Be a Bat?" 0195056442 Some of his views sound convincing and reasonable, but you feel they sometimes lack more solid arguments.
Neutrality is only reasonable for situations where the facts support that middle-of-the-road position.