Is there a greater gesture of intellectual contempt than the notion that a tweet constitutes an adequate intervention in a serious discussion? But when Thomas Nagel’s formidable book Mind and Cosmos ...

Thomas Nagel, a distinguished philosopher at New York University, is well known for his critique of “materialistic reductionism” as an account of the mind-body relationship. In his new and ...

Science has produced no standard account of the origins of life. We have a superb understanding of how we get biological variety from simple, living starting points. We can thank Darwin for that. And ...

Sein 1974 veröffentlichter Aufsatz „What is it like to be a bat?“ machte Thomas Nagel berühmt. Darin setzte sich der 1937 geborene amerikanische Philosoph mit den naturwissenschaftlichen Grenzen ...

It may be that the distance between educated amateur and scientific expert has widened since the 19th century, but the religious sensitivities Darwinism inflames seem to have remained fairly ...

Alert, David Brooks, alert! Here is an entry in your annual Sidney Awards for best magazine essays of the year: Andy Ferguson’s wonderful piece about the philosopher Thomas Nagel, and how, despite ...