Thomas Nagel
Professor of Philosophy and Law Emeritus
New York University, United States
Profile – Thomas Nagel (b. 1937)
Thomas Nagel is an American philosopher born in Belgrade. He has published widely in philosophy, often arguing against materialist views, but in consciousness studies is best known for his 1974 paper ‘What is it like to be a bat?’
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Nagel, T. (1974). What is it like to be a bat? Philosophical Review, 83, 435–450. Reprinted with commentary in D. R. Hofstadter and D. C. Dennett (Eds) (1981), The mind’s I: Fantasies and reflections on self and soul (pp. 391–414). London: Penguin. Also in Nagel, T. (1979), Mortal questions (pp. 165–180). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Also in N. Block (Ed.) (1980), Readings in the philosophy of psychology, Vol. 1. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Also in D. Chalmers (Ed.) (2002), Philosophy of mind: Classical and contemporary readings (pp. 219–226). New York: Oxford University Press. Paywall-protected journal record here. Full text (html) here. Google Books preview (Block, 1980) here.
Nagel, T. (1979). Mortal questions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Google Books preview here.
Nagel, T. (1986). The view from nowhere. New York: Oxford University Press. Google Books preview here.
Nagel, T. (2012). Mind and cosmos: Why the materialist neo-Darwinian conception of nature is almost certainly false. New York: Oxford University Press.