Thomas Nagel

Thomas Nagel
Thomas Nagel
	Nagel in 1978
Born	July 4, 1937; Belgrade, Yugoslavia (now Serbia)
Nationality	American
Spouses	Doris G. Blum (m. 1958; div. 1973); Anne Hollander (m. 1979; died 2014);
Awards	Balzan Prize (2008); Rolf Schock Prize (2008);
Academic background
Alma mater	Cornell University; Corpus Christi College, Oxford; Harvard University;
Thesis	Altruism (1963)
Doctoral advisor	John Rawls
Other advisors	J. L. Austin
Academic work
Discipline	Philosophy
Sub-discipline	Epistemology; ethics; legal philosophy; philosophy of mind; political philosophy;
School or tradition	Analytic philosophy
Institutions	New York University; Princeton University; University of California, Berkeley;
Doctoral students	Marcelo Alegre; Rebecca Goldstein; Shelly Kagan; Samuel Scheffler; Susan Wolf;
Notable works	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);
Notable ideas	Panpsychism; subjective character of experience; what is it like to be a something;

Thomas Nagel (/ˈneɪɡəl/; born July 4, 1937) is an American philosopher. He is the University Professor of Philosophy and Law Emeritus at New York University, where he taught from 1980 to 2016. His main areas of philosophical interest are legal philosophy, political philosophy, and ethics.

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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