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What Is It Like to Be a Bat? Audiobook, by Thomas Nagel Play Audiobook Sample

What Is It Like to Be a Bat? Audiobook

What Is It Like to Be a Bat? Audiobook, by Thomas Nagel Play Audiobook Sample
Release Date: November 19, 2024
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Read By: Joe Barrett Publisher: Highbridge Audio Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 0.67 hours at 1.5x Speed 0.50 hours at 2.0x Speed
Release Date: November 19, 2024
Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781696618038

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

3

Longest Chapter Length:

32:50 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

05:58 minutes

Average Chapter Length:

21:45 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

2

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Publisher Description

"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 philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience; it also influenced the recognition of the consciousness of nonhuman creatures as an important subject of study. Nagel argued that the essential subjectivity of conscious experience—what it is like for the creature undergoing it—means that reductionist theories of mind, which attempt to analyze it in physical terms, can never succeed. It follows that the physical sciences cannot provide a complete description of reality, and that the physical conception of objective reality must be transcended if science is going to comprehend the mind.

This edition reissues this classic and widely influential article on its fiftieth anniversary, along with a new preface discussing the origins and influence of the essay, as well as "Further Thoughts: The Psychophysical Nexus," a supplementary essay which describes Nagel's later thoughts about how to respond to the problem posed by "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?"

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About Joe Barrett

Joe Barrett, an actor and Audie Award and Earphones Award–winning narrator, has appeared both on and off Broadway as well as in hundreds of radio and television commercials.