" What Is It Like to Be a Bat? " is a paper by American philosopher Thomas Nagel, first published in The Philosophical Review in October 1974, and later in Nagel's Mortal Questions (1979).

What Is It Like to Be A Bat? by Thomas Nagel (1974) Analogies—for example, 'Red is like the sound of a trumpet'—are of little use. That should be clear to anyone who has both heard a trumpet and seen …

“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 …

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.

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 …

Nagel's “What is it like to be a Bat” Argument against Physicalism.Amy Kind - 2011 - In Michael Bruce & Steven Barbone, Just the Arguments: 100 of the Most Important Arguments in Western Philosophy.

American philosopher Thomas Nagel critiques theories of the mind. Published in The Philosophical Review in 1974, this philosophical and expository piece is primarily geared towards academics, …

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? [From The Philosophical Review LXXXIII, 4 (October 1974): 435-50.] Consciousness is what makes the mind-body problem really intractable. Perhaps that is why current …