What Is It Like to Be a Bat? by Thomas Nagel

What Is It Like to Be a Bat?

Thomas Nagel

64 pages first pub 1974 (view editions)

nonfiction philosophy psychology science challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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"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 philo...

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