Thomas Nagel

Thomas Nagel
Nagel in 1978
Gebore	04 Julie 1937 (1937-07-04)
Nasionaliteit	Amerikaans
Alma mater	Cornell-universiteit, Corpus Christi Kollege, Oxford, Harvard-universiteit
Eggenoot	Doris G. Blum (trou 1958; skei 1973) Anne Hollander (trou 1979; afsterwe 2014)
Noemenswaardige werke	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)
Toekennings	1996 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Toekenning vir die kuns van die essay vir Other Minds (1995) Rolf Schock-prys in Logika en Filosofie (2008)
Webwerf	Faculty webpage (Dept of Philosophy) Faculty webpage (School of Law)

Thomas Nagel (Engelse uitspraak: ˈ|n|ei|g|əl; gebore 4 Julie 1937) is 'n Amerikaanse filosoof. Hy is Emeritus Professor van Filosofie en Regte aan die New York-universiteit, waar hy vanaf 1980 tot 2016 klas gegee het. Sy hoofareas van filosofiese belangstelling is regsfilosofie, politieke filosofie en etiek.

Nagel is bekend om sy kritiek van materiaal reduksionistiese oogpunte betreffende die verstand en bewustheid, veral in sy essay "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?" (1974) asook sy bydrae tot deontologiese en liberaal-morele politieke teorie in The Possibility of Altruism (1970) en gevolglike skrywes. Hy het voortgegaan met kritiek op reduksionisme in sy Mind and Cosmos (2012), waarin hy teen die neo-Darwiniaanse oogpunt betreffende die opkoms van bewustheid argumenteer.

Geselekteerde publikasies

Boeke

• Nagel, Thomas (1970). The possibility of altruism. Princeton, N.J: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-02002-0. (Herdruk in 1978, Princeton University Press.)
• Nagel, Thomas; Held, Virginia; Morgenbesser, Sidney (1974). Philosophy, morality, and international affairs: essays edited for the Society for Philosophy and Public Affairs. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-501759-5.
• Nagel, Thomas (1979). Mortal questions. London: Canto. ISBN 978-0-521-40676-5.
• Nagel, Thomas (1986). The view from nowhere. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-505644-0.
• Nagel, Thomas (1987). What does it all mean?: a very short introduction to philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-517437-3.
• Nagel, Thomas (1991). Equality and partiality. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-509839-6.
• Nagel, Thomas (1997). The last word. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-514983-8.
• Nagel, Thomas (1999). Other minds: critical essays, 1969–1994. New York Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-513246-5.
• Nagel, Thomas; Murphy, Liam (2002). The myth of ownership : taxes and justice. Oxford New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-517656-8.
• Nagel, Thomas (2002). Concealment and exposure: and other essays. Oxford New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-515293-7.
• Nagel, Thomas (2010). Secular philosophy and the religious temperament: essays 2002–2008. Oxford New York, N.Y: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-539411-5.
• Nagel, Thomas (2012). Mind and Cosmos: why the materialist neo-Darwinian conception of nature is almost certainly false. Oxford New York: Oxford University Press, ISBN 9780199919758

Artikels

• 1959, "Hobbes's Concept of Obligation", Philosophical Review, pp. 68–83.
• 1959, "Dreaming", Analysis, pp. 112–6.
• 1965, "Physicalism", Philosophical Review, pp. 339–56.
• 1969, "Sexual Perversion", Journal of Philosophy, pp. 5–17 (herdruk in Mortal Questions).
• 1969, "The Boundaries of Inner Space", Journal of Philosophy, pp. 452–8.
• 1970, "Death", Nous, pp. 73–80 (herdruk in Mortal Questions).
• 1970, "Armstrong on the Mind", Philosophical Review, pp. 394–403 ('n gespreksresensie van A Materialist Theory of the Mind deur D. M. Armstrong).
• 1971, "Brain Bisection and the Unity of Consciousness", Synthese, pp. 396–413 (herdruk in Mortal Questions).
• 1971, "The Absurd", Journal of Philosophy, pp. 716–27 (herdruk in Mortal Questions).
• 1972, "War and Massacre", Philosophy & Public Affairs, vol. 1, pp. 123–44 (herdruk in Mortal Questions).
• 1973, "Rawls on Justice", Philosophical Review, pp. 220–34 (a discussion review of A Theory of Justice deur John Rawls).
• 1973, "Equal Treatment and Compensatory Discrimination", Philosophy & Public Affairs, vol. 2, pp. 348–62.
• 1974, "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?", Philosophical Review, pp. 435–50 (herdruk in Mortal Questions). Aanlyn teks
• 1976, "Moral Luck", Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society Supplementary vol. 50, pp. 137–55 (herdruk in Mortal Questions).
• 1979, "The Meaning of Equality", Washington University Law Quarterly, pp. 25–31.
• 1981, "Tactical Nuclear Weapons and the Ethics of Conflict", Parameters: Journal of the U.S. Army War College, pp. 327–8.
• 1983, "The Objective Self", in Carl Ginet and Sydney Shoemaker (reds.), Knowledge and Mind, Oxford University Press, pp. 211–232.
• 1987, "Moral Conflict and Political Legitimacy", Philosophy & Public Affairs, pp. 215–240.
• 1994, "Consciousness and Objective Reality", in R. Warner and T. Szubka (reds.), The Mind-Body Problem, Blackwell.
• 1995, "Personal Rights and Public Space", Philosophy & Public Affairs, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 83–107.
• 1997, "Assisted Suicide: The Philosophers' Brief" (met R. Dworkin, R. Nozick, J. Rawls, T. Scanlon, en J. J. Thomson), New York Review of Books, 27 Maart 1997.
• 1998, "Reductionism and Antireductionism", in The Limits of Reductionism in Biology, Novartis Symposium 213, John Wiley & Sons, pp. 3–10.
• 1998, "Concealment and Exposure", Philosophy & Public Affairs, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 3–30. Aanlyn teks
• 1998, "Conceiving the Impossible and the Mind-Body Problem", Philosophy, vol. 73, no. 285, pp. 337–352. Online PDF
• 2000, "The Psychophysical Nexus", in Paul Boghossian and Christopher Peacocke (reds.) New Essays on the A Priori, Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 432–471. Aanlyn PDF
• 2003, "Rawls and Liberalism", in Samuel Freeman (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Rawls, Cambridge University Press, pp. 62–85.
• 2003, "John Rawls and Affirmative Action", The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, no. 39, pp. 82–4.
• 2008, "Public Education and Intelligent Design", Philosophy and Public Affairs
• 2009, "The I in Me", a review article of Selves: An Essay in Revisionary Metaphysics by Galen Strawson, Oxford, 448 pp, ISBN 0-19-825006-1, lrb.co.uk

Persoonlike lewe

Nagel is in 1954 getroud met Doris Blum van wie hy in 1973 geskei het. In 1979 is hy getroud met Anne Hollander, wat in 2014 gesterf het.

Verdere leeswerk

• Thomas, Alan (2015), Thomas Nagel, Routledge .

Eksterne skakels

• "Thomas Nagel". New York-universiteit (NYU). Dpt of Philosophy.
• "Nagel se CV" (PDF). NYU.
• "What is it like to be a bat?". Philosophical Review. LXXXIII (4): 435–450. Oktober 1974.
• "Thomas Nagel". The New York Review of Books.