Beyond Objectivity

Nagel’s Bat and Subjective Experience

De: Boris Kriger

Narrado por: Melissa Spies

What does it mean to know, when knowing itself has become an industry?

Half a century after Thomas Nagel asked what it is like to be a bat, humanity is on the verge of decoding thought, simulating empathy, and dissolving the last privacy of the mind. Yet the closer we come to perfect transparency, the less we understand what it means to feel.

Beyond Objectivity is Boris Kriger’s philosophical meditation on this paradox. Moving from Plato’s cave to the algorithms of Neuralink, he traces the long exile of the observer from the world it seeks to describe. Objectivity—once the moral virtue of science—has turned into its metaphysical tyranny, a dream of knowledge without witness. Kriger asks what happens when that dream meets technology capable of reading the soul.

Rejecting both scientistic reduction and mystical escape, the book proposes a new empiricism of meaning—one that joins analytic clarity with existential compassion. It argues that the future of knowledge lies not in control but in attention: the moral art of perceiving without consuming. Philosophy, in this vision, becomes a practice of care—a way of listening to reality rather than conquering it.

Written in luminous, precise prose, Beyond Objectivity bridges the analytic and the continental, the scientific and the poetic. It calls for a philosophy mature enough to doubt its own certainty and tender enough to love what remains invisible. A book for listeners who suspect that the next revolution in science will not come from new instruments, but from a renewed capacity to feel.

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