Bats, although more closely related to us than those other species, nevertheless present a range of activity and a sensory apparatus so different from ours that the problem I want to pose is …

What Is It Like to Be a Bat? Thomas Nagel argues that while a human might be able to imagine what it is like to be a bat by taking "the bat's point of view", it would still be impossible "to know what it is like …

Thomas Nagel The Philosophical Review, Vol. 83, No. 4. (Oct., 1974), pp. 435-450. Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0031 …

What Is It Like to Be a Bat? Thomas Nagel. The Philosophical Review, Vol. 83, No. 4. (Oct., 1974), pp. 435-450. Stable URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0031 …

Mar 21, 2024 · What Is It Like to Be a Bat? This book is a fiftieth anniversary republication of Thomas Nagel’s “What Is It Like to Be a Bat?,” a classic in the philosophy of mind.

Altruism (1970) and subsequent writings. He continued the critique of reductionism in Mind and Cosmos (2012), in which he argues against the neo-Darwini.

I want to know what it is like for a bat to be a bat. Yet if I try to imagine this, I am restricted to the resources of my own mind, and those resources are inadequate to the task.

I want to know what it is like for a bat to be a bat. Yet if I try to imagine this, I am restricted to the resources of my own mind, and those resources are inadequate to the task.

“What Is It Like to Be a Bat?” was published fifty years ago in The Philosophical Review (October 1974). In it I tried to show that the irreducible subjectivity of consciousness is an obstacle to many proposed …

In his famous 1974 essay, What Is It Like to Be a Bat?, Nagel dives into the mystery of consciousness —specifically, how hard it is to truly understand what it’s like to be someone (or something) else. This …