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Thomas Nagel (/ ˈ n eɪ ɡ əl /; born July 4, 1937) is an American philosopher. He is the University Professor of Philosophy and Law Emeritus at New York University , [3] where he taught from 1980 until his retirement in 2016. [4]
The American philosopher Thomas Nagel was one of the first contemporary moral philosophers to challenge Hume’s thesis that reason alone is incapable of motivating moral action. In The Possibility of Altruism (1969), he argued that, if Hume’s thesis is true, then the ordinary idea of prudence—i.e., the idea….
Jul 16, 2013 · The philosopher Thomas Nagel’s new book, “Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False,” restores the primal force of a great old...
Thomas Nagel is a renowned philosopher who specializes in political philosophy, ethics, epistemology, and philosophy of mind. He has authored several books and received many awards and honors, including the Balzan Prize in Moral Philosophy and an honorary degree from Oxford.
"What Is It Like to Be a Bat?" is a paper by American philosopher Thomas Nagel, first published in The Philosophical Review in October 1974, and later in Nagel's Mortal Questions (1979).
Oct 29, 2012 · Dupré critiques Nagel's argument against materialist neo-Darwinism and his appeal to naturalistic teleology. He challenges Nagel's assumptions about reductionism, evolution, and the scope of science.
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Thomas Nagel is Emeritus University Professor of Philosophy and Law at New York University. He is also a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a corresponding fellow of the British Academy, and a member of the American Philosophical Society.
