Thomas Nagel

**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 
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* Nagel, Thomas (2012).  *Mind and Cosmos: why the materialist neo-Darwinian conception of nature is almost certainly false.* Oxford New York: Oxford University Press, 

### Artikels 
* 1959, "Hobbes's Concept of Obligation", *Philosophical Review*, pp.&nbsp;68–83.
* 1959, "Dreaming", *Analysis*, pp.&nbsp;112–6.
* 1965, "Physicalism", *Philosophical Review*, pp.&nbsp;339–56.
* 1969, "Sexual Perversion", *Journal of Philosophy*, pp.&nbsp;5–17 (herdruk in *Mortal Questions*).
* 1969, "The Boundaries of Inner Space", *Journal of Philosophy*, pp.&nbsp;452–8.
* 1970, "Death", *Nous*, pp.&nbsp;73–80 (herdruk in *Mortal Questions*).
* 1970, "Armstrong on the Mind", *Philosophical Review*, pp.&nbsp;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.&nbsp;396–413 (herdruk in *Mortal Questions*).
* 1971, "The Absurd", *Journal of Philosophy*, pp.&nbsp;716–27 (herdruk in *Mortal Questions*).
* 1972, "War and Massacre", *Philosophy & Public Affairs*, vol. 1, pp.&nbsp;123–44 (herdruk in *Mortal Questions*).
* 1973, "Rawls on Justice", *Philosophical Review*, pp.&nbsp;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.&nbsp;348–62.
* 1974, "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?", *Philosophical Review*, pp.&nbsp;435–50 (herdruk in *Mortal Questions*). Aanlyn teks
* 1976, "Moral Luck", Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society Supplementary vol. 50, pp.&nbsp;137–55 (herdruk in *Mortal Questions*).
* 1979, "The Meaning of Equality", *Washington University Law Quarterly*, pp.&nbsp;25–31.
* 1981, "Tactical Nuclear Weapons and the Ethics of Conflict", *Parameters: Journal of the U.S. Army War College*, pp.&nbsp;327–8.
* 1983, "The Objective Self", in Carl Ginet and Sydney Shoemaker (reds.), *Knowledge and Mind*, Oxford University Press, pp.&nbsp;211–232.
* 1987, "Moral Conflict and Political Legitimacy", *Philosophy & Public Affairs*, pp.&nbsp;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.&nbsp;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.&nbsp;3–10.
* 1998, "Concealment and Exposure", *Philosophy & Public Affairs*, vol. 27, no. 1, pp.&nbsp;3–30. Aanlyn teks
* 1998, "Conceiving the Impossible and the Mind-Body Problem", *Philosophy*, vol. 73, no. 285, pp.&nbsp;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.&nbsp;432–471. Aanlyn PDF
* 2003, "Rawls and Liberalism", in Samuel Freeman (ed.) *The Cambridge Companion to Rawls*, Cambridge University Press, pp.&nbsp;62–85.
* 2003, "John Rawls and Affirmative Action", *The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education*, no. 39, pp.&nbsp;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, , 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.

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