Thomas Nagel

b. 1937

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American philosopher, Thomas Nagel was born in the former Yugoslavia. He received his education at Cornell, Oxford, and Harvard universities. He taught at Princeton University from 1966 to 1980 and later at New York University. His philosophical work focuses on moral motivation and the possibility of a rational theory of moral and political commitment. He is known for his influential paper "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?", which argues that subjective experience has an irreducible aspect that cannot be fully understood through objective scientific methods. His published works include The Possibility of Altruism (1970), Mortal Questions (1979), The View from Nowhere (1986), and Equality and Partiality (1991).

Born

1937