The Limits of Objectivity
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These lectures are about objectivity and its limits. In the second and third lectures I shall be concerned with normative questions; I shall defend the objectivity of ethics, and try to explain what it means. But today I am going to say something about the problem of objectivity as it occurs in metaphysics, especially in the philosophy of mind. I do this because the problem has a similar form in the two areas, and because ideas arising from metaphysics influence our views of what must be done to discover objectivity in ethics. I hope therefore not only to say something about subjectivity and objectivity in the philosophy of mind, but also to set the stage for an account of what it would be for ethics to be objective.
Source Publication
The Tanner Lectures on Human Values
Source Editors/Authors
Sterling McMurrin
Publication Date
1980
Volume Number
1
Recommended Citation
Nagel, Thomas, "The Limits of Objectivity" (1980). Faculty Chapters. 1332.
https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/fac-chapt/1332
