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                                        Thomas NagelThomas Nagel
University Professor; Professor of Law; Professor of Philosophy

Department of Philosophy
5 Washington Place
New York, NY 10003 
Phone: (212) 998-6225
Fax: (212) 995-4179
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B.A. 1958, Cornell; B.Phil. 1960, Oxford; Ph.D. 1963, Harvard

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THOMAS NAGEL (B.A., Cornell; B.Phil., Oxford; Ph.D., Harvard; D.Litt (hon.), Oxford), University Professor, Professor of Law, Professor of Philosophy. He specializes in Political Philosophy, Ethics, Epistemology, and Philosophy of Mind. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Fellow of the British Academy, and a member of the American Philosophical Society, and has received the Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy.  He is the author of The Possibility of Altruism (Oxford, 1970, reprinted Princeton, 1978), Mortal Questions (Cambridge, 1979), The View From Nowhere (Oxford, 1986), What Does It All Mean? (Oxford, 1987), Equality and Partiality (Oxford, 1991), Other Minds (Oxford, 1995), The Last Word (Oxford, 1997),  The Myth of Ownership: Taxes and Justice (with Liam Murphy) (Oxford, 2002), and Concealment and Exposure (Oxford, 2002).

Online Papers:

"Concealment and Exposure"

"Conceiving the Impossible and the Mind-Body Problem"

"The Psychophysical Nexus"

"The Problem of Global Justice"

 

Courses

Graduate

Colloquium in Law and Philosophy (in conjunction with Ronald Dworkin), Fall 2007

Global Justice (with Janos Kis), Spring 2008

 

Undergraduate

Senior Honors Seminar, Fall 2008

On leave, 2008-9

 

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