However, the oversight in Ryle’s work lies in the importance and ambiguity of subjectivity in the relationship between the mind and body. Nagel refutes reductionist theories because they are based on a foundation that does not take into account the subjective character of experience. Furthermore, he believes that the mind-body relation is “not analyzable in terms of any explanatory system of functional states, or intentional states, (Nagel, 436) as they could be used to describe non-life forms. Physicalism thereby gives an objective theory that abandons the phenomenological features of human life, and is inevitably flawed because it prohibits subjective
However, the oversight in Ryle’s work lies in the importance and ambiguity of subjectivity in the relationship between the mind and body. Nagel refutes reductionist theories because they are based on a foundation that does not take into account the subjective character of experience. Furthermore, he believes that the mind-body relation is “not analyzable in terms of any explanatory system of functional states, or intentional states, (Nagel, 436) as they could be used to describe non-life forms. Physicalism thereby gives an objective theory that abandons the phenomenological features of human life, and is inevitably flawed because it prohibits subjective