" 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?” 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 …

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 …

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 re- sources are inadequate to the task.

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.

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.

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

Perhaps if one knew what that was like, one could by extension imagine roughly what it was like to possess the much more refined sonar of a bat. The distance between oneself and other persons and …

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 …

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, …