# Thomas Nagel **Domain:** Philosophy of Mind / Ethics **Doc Type:** Thinker Node **Maturity:** Evolving **Related:** [[The Mind's I]], [[Consciousness]], [[Continuity Evidence vs Continuity]], [[Substrate-Neutral Moral Patienthood|Moral Patienthood]] --- ## Definition Thomas Nagel is an American philosopher whose work on subjective character argues that an organism's point of view cannot be exhausted by an objective functional description. ## Corpus Context His inclusion in [[The Mind's I]] strengthens the corpus's insistence that continuity evidence and third-person performance do not automatically settle first-person experience. ## Relationships [[The Mind's I]], [[Consciousness]], [[Continuity Evidence vs Continuity]], [[Substrate-Neutral Moral Patienthood|Moral Patienthood]] ## Sources / Provenance - [[articles/Beyond the Sea|Beyond the Sea]]