What Is It Like to Be a Bat?
$49.69
- Hardcover
80 pages
- Release Date
14 August 2024
Summary
“Consciousness is what makes the mind-body problem really intractable.” So begins Thomas Nagel’s classic 1974 essay “What is it Like to be a Bat?”. Nagel’s essay initiated the now widespread attention to consciousness as a central problem for philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience; it also influenced the recognition of the consciousness of nonhuman creatures as an important subject of study.
Nagel argued that the essential subjectivity of conscious experience—what it is like for the…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780197752791 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0197752799 |
| Author: | Thomas Nagel |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 80 |
| Release Date: | 14 August 2024 |
| Weight: | 159g |
| Dimensions: | 13mm x 109mm x 165mm |
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Thomas Nagel
Thomas Nagel was educated at Cornell, Oxford, and Harvard, and has taught philosophy at Berkeley, Princeton, and New York University – finally as University Professor in the Department of Philosophy and the School of Law at NYU. His extensive writings deal with ethics, political theory, philosophy of mind, epistemology, and the meaning of life. Among his books are The View from Nowhere and Mind and Cosmos.
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