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American philosopher

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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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Instance of
human
Given name
Thomas
Family name
Nagel
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Belgrade
Occupation
writer
Languages spoken
English language
Religion
atheism
Notable work
View from nowhere
Doctoral advisor
John Rawls
Field of work
political theory
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Thomas Nagel (cropped).jpg
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Thomas Nagel
date of birth
1937-07-04
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Encyclopedic overview

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.

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