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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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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Thomas
- Family name
- Nagel
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Belgrade
- Occupation
- writer
- Educated at
- Cornell University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- atheism
- Notable work
- View from nowhere
- Doctoral advisor
- John Rawls
- Field of work
- political theory
- Official website
- www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/philo/faculty/nagel
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- Thomas Nagel (cropped).jpg
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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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