What Is It Like to Be a Bat?

by Thomas Nagel

A 50th anniversary edition of one of the most widely influential articles of 20th Century philosophy

"Consciousness is what makes the mind-body problem really intractable." So begins Thomas Nagel's classic 1974 essay "What is it Like to be a Bat?" Nagel's essay initiated the now widespread attention to consciousness as a central problem for philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience; it also influenced the recognition of the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197752799
• ISBN13: 9780197752791
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 80 Pages