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Thomas Nagel

Thomas Nagel (/ˈneɪɡəl/; born July 4, 1937) is an American philosopher. He is the University Professor of Philosophy and Law Emeritus at New York University,[3] where he has taught since 1980, retiring in 2016.[4] His main areas of philosophical interest are legal philosophy, political philosophy, and ethics.[5]

Thomas Nagel

(1937-07-04) July 4, 1937

Belgrade, Yugoslavia (now Serbia)

American

  • Doris G. Blum
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    (m. 1958; div. 1973)​
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    (m. 1979; died 2014)​

Altruism (1963)

John Rawls

J. L. Austin

Philosophy

Analytic philosophy

Nagel is known for his critique of material reductionist accounts of the mind, particularly in his essay "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?" (1974), and for his contributions to liberal moral and political theory in The Possibility of Altruism (1970) and subsequent writings. He continued the critique of reductionism in Mind and Cosmos (2012), in which he argues against the neo-Darwinian view of the emergence of consciousness.

Personal life[edit]

Nagel married Doris Blum in 1954, divorcing in 1973. In 1979, he married Anne Hollander, who died in 2014.[6]

Awards[edit]

Nagel received the 1996 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay for Other Minds (1995). He has also been awarded the Balzan Prize in Moral Philosophy (2008), the Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (2008) and the Distinguished Achievement Award of the Mellon Foundation (2006).[4]

Nagel, Thomas (1970). The possibility of altruism. Princeton, N.J: Oxford University Press.  9780691020020. (Reprinted in 1978, Princeton University Press.)

ISBN

Nagel, Thomas; ; Morgenbesser, Sidney (1974). Philosophy, morality, and international affairs: essays edited for the Society for Philosophy and Public Affairs. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195017595.

Held, Virginia

Nagel, Thomas (1979). . London: Canto. ISBN 9780521406765.

Mortal questions

Nagel, Thomas (1986). . New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195056440.

The view from nowhere

Nagel, Thomas (1987). . Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195174373.

What does it all mean?: a very short introduction to philosophy

Nagel, Thomas (1991). . New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195098396.

Equality and partiality

Nagel, Thomas (1997). . New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195149838.[25]

The last word

Nagel, Thomas (1999). . New York Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195132465.

Other minds: critical essays, 1969–1994

Nagel, Thomas; Murphy, Liam (2002). . Oxford New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195176568.

The myth of ownership : taxes and justice

Nagel, Thomas (2002). Concealment and exposure: and other essays. Oxford New York: Oxford University Press.  9780195152937.

ISBN

Nagel, Thomas (2010). Secular philosophy and the religious temperament: essays 2002–2008. Oxford New York, N.Y: Oxford University Press.  9780195394115.

ISBN

Nagel, Thomas (2012). Oxford New York: Oxford University Press, ISBN 9780199919758

Mind and Cosmos: why the materialist neo-Darwinian conception of nature is almost certainly false.

American philosophy

List of American philosophers

New York University Department of Philosophy

David Chalmers

Frank Jackson

Galen Strawson

Hard problem of consciousness

Knowledge argument

Phenomenology

Neutral monism

Thomas, Alan (2015), Thomas Nagel, Routledge.

. NYU. Dpt of Philosophy.

"Thomas Nagel"

(PDF). NYU.

"Nagel's CV"

. Philosophical Review. LXXXIII (4): 435–450. October 1974. doi:10.2307/2183914. JSTOR 2183914.

"What is it like to be a bat?"

. The New York Review of Books.

"Thomas Nagel"