Thomas Nagel
| Thomas Nagel | |
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April 2008
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| Born |
July 4, 1937 Belgrade, Kingdom of Yugoslavia |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater |
Cornell University Corpus Christi College, Oxford Harvard University |
| Occupation | Professor of philosophy |
| Employer | Department of Philosophy, New York University |
| Known for | Political philosophy, ethics, philosophy of mind, epistemology |
| Notable work |
The Possibility of Altruism (1970) "What Is it Like to Be a Bat?" (1974) Mortal Questions (1979) The View From Nowhere (1986) Equality and Partiality (1991) The Last Word (1997) Mind and Cosmos (2012) |
| Spouse(s) | Doris G. Blum (1954–1973; divorced) Anne Hollander (m. 1979–2014) |
| Awards | 1996 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay for Other Minds (1995). |
| Website | Faculty webpage (Dept of Philosophy) Faculty webpage (School of Law) |
Thomas Nagel (/ˈneɪɡəl/; born July 4, 1937) is an American philosopher, currently University Professor of Philosophy and Law Emeritus at New York University in the NYU Department of Philosophy, where he has taught since 1980. His main areas of philosophical interest are philosophy of mind, political philosophy and ethics.
Nagel is well known for his critique of reductionist accounts of the mind, particularly in his essay "What Is it Like to Be a Bat?" (1974), and for his contributions to deontological and liberal moral and political theory in The Possibility of Altruism (1970) and subsequent writings. Continuing his critique of reductionism, he is the author of Mind and Cosmos (2012), in which he argues against a reductionist view, and specifically the neo-Darwinian view, of the emergence of consciousness.
Nagel was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia (now Serbia), to a Jewish family. He is the son of Carolyn (Baer) and Walter Nagel. He received a BA from Cornell University in 1958 where he was introduced to the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein. In 1960 he received a BPhil from the University of Oxford where he studied with J. L. Austin, and H. Paul Grice. He received his PhD from Harvard University in 1963 under the supervision of John Rawls.
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