What is it like to be a bat?

• Verfasst von: Nagel, Thomas [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: What is it like to be a bat?
• Verf.angabe: Thomas Nagel
• Verlagsort: New York, NY
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Jahr: 2024
• Umfang: 1 online resource
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Oxford scholarship online
• Fussnoten: Also issued in print: 2024. - Includes bibliographical references. - Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on January 4, 2024)
• ISBN: 978-0-19-775282-1
• DOI: doi:10.1093/oso/9780197752791.001.0001
• Schlagwörter: (s)Philosophy of Mind / (s)Qualia
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe: Nagel, Thomas, 1937 - : What is it like to be a bat?. - New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2024. - xi, 64 Seiten
• Sach-SW: Philosophy
• Sach-SW: Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge
• K10plus-PPN: 1887102302
• K10plus-PPN:
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Abstract

This text is a fiftieth anniversary republication of Thomas Nagel's 'What Is It Like to Be a Bat?', a classic article in the philosophy of mind. Through its argument for the irreducible subjectivity of consciousness, it played an essential role in making the study of consciousness a central part of philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience. It also spurred the now flourishing scientific attention to the consciousness of non-human creatures: mammals, birds, fish, mollusks, and insects. The book also includes a second essay offering Nagel's more recent thoughts on the most promising positive response to the mind-body problem, as posed in the original essay.