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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1937
- Works
- 74
Top works
- Mah ha-mashmaʻut shel kol zeh?
- Altruism
- Mortal questions
- מה המשמעות של כל זה?
- What does it all mean?
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- Listeners
- 23
- Total plays
- 59
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Analysis of Relative Gene Expression Data Using Real-Time Quantitative PCR and the 2−ΔΔCT Method
· 2001 · cited 160,589x
- The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews
· 2021 · cited 76,882x
- U-Net: Convolutional Networks for Biomedical Image Segmentation
· 2015 · cited 57,331x
- STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner
· 2012 · cited 49,587x
- UCSF Chimera—A visualization system for exploratory research and analysis
· 2004 · cited 43,718x
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Quotes
- “Everyone is entitled to commit murder in the imagination once in a while, not to mention lesser infractions.”
- “Consciousness is what makes the mind–body problem really intractable.”
- “Without consciousness the mind-body problem would be much less interesting. With consciousness it seems hopeless.”
- “Any reductionist program has to be based on an analysis of what is to be reduced. If the analysis leaves something out, the problem will be falsely posed.”
- “[E]very subjective phenomenon is essentially connected with a single point of view, and it seems inevitable that an objective physical theory will abandon that point of view.”
- “Bats … present a range of activity and a sensory apparatus so different from ours that the problem I want to pose is exceptionally vivid (though it certainly could be raised with other species). Even without the benefit of philosophical reflection, anyone who has spent some time in an enclosed space with an excited bat knows what it is to encounter a fundamentally alien form of life.”
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1937-07-04 ) July 4, 1937 (age 88) , Belgrade , Kingdom of Yugoslavia (now Serbia )
- Spouses
- Doris G. Blum ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1954 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1973 ) Anne Hollander ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1979 ; died 2014 ) Susan Chace ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2022 )
- Awards
- Balzan Prize (2008) Rolf Schock Prize (2008)
- Education
- Cornell University ( BA ) Corpus Christi College, Oxford ( BPhil ) Harvard University ( PhD )
- Thesis
- Altruism (1963)
- Doctoral advisor
- John Rawls
- Other advisor
- J. L. Austin
- Era
- Contemporary philosophy
- Discipline
- Philosophy
- Sub discipline
- Epistemology ethics legal philosophy philosophy of mind political philosophy
- Region
- Western philosophy
- School or tradition
- Analytic , Postanalytic
- Institutions
- New York University Princeton University University of California, Berkeley
- Doctoral students
- Marcelo Alegre [ es ] Rebecca Goldstein Shelly Kagan Samuel Scheffler Susan Wolf
- Notable works
- " What Is It Like to Be a Bat? " (1974) The View from Nowhere (1986) Mind and Cosmos (2012)
- Notable ideas
- Panpsychism subjective character of experience what is it like to be a something
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Official website
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/philo/faculty/nagel
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- Thomas Nagel (cropped).jpg
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Thomas Nagel (/ˈneɪɡəl/; born July 4, 1937) is an American philosopher. He is University Professor of Philosophy and Law Emeritus at New York University, where he taught from 1980 until his retirement in 2016. His main areas of philosophical interest are political philosophy, ethics and philosophy of mind.
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.