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Thomas Nagel

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April 2008
Personal information
Birth dateJuly 04, 1937(age 73)
Place of birthBelgrade, Yugoslavia (now Serbia)
NationalityAmerican
EducationBA (1958), BPhil (1960), PhD (1963)
Alma materCornell University (1954 - 1958)
Corpus Christi College, Oxford (1958 - 1960)
Harvard University (1960 - 1963)
OccupationProfessor of law, professor of philosophy
EmployerDepartment of Philosophy, New York University
Known forPolitical philosophy, ethics, philosophy of mind, epistemology
Notable worksThe 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)

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Thomas Nagel (born July 4, 1937 in Belgrade, in present-day Serbia) is an American philosopher, currently University Professor of Philosophy and Law at New York University, where he has taught since 1980. His main areas of philosophical interest are philosophy of mind, political philosophy and ethics. He is well-known for his critique of reductionist accounts of the mind 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.

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