Thomas Nagel
Biographic Data
| ID | 460144 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Nagel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Nagel |
| SIGNATURE | NAGEL T |
| AFFILIATIONS | TU Bergakademie Freiberg |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8459-4616 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 139 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 581 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 135 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1959 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Investigating the F-bar method as a remedy for volumetric locking in Finite Element Analysis with the total Lagrange formulation
In finite element analysis (FEA) of deformation problems, volumetric locking is a common issue in nearly incompressible materials. Standard low-order elements (such as linear quadrilaterals or hexahedra) can become overly stiff under volumetric constraints, leading to inaccurate deformation predictions, checkerboard patterns in stress distributions, or, in some cases, divergence. Several methods are commonly used to address this issue, including …
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. Through its argument for the irreducible subjectivity of consciousness, it played an essential role in making the study of consciousness a central part of philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience. It also spurred the now flourishing scientific attention to the consciousness of non-human creatures: mammals, birds…
What Is It Like to Be a Bat
Hypothesis-testing and assisted-history-matching applied to evaluate uncertainty of model selection and parameter values
Pore pressure evolution and hydraulic flow are two important physical features to consider in barrier integrity and radionuclide transport applications. Existing literature suggests a potentially non-negligible impact of thermo-osmosis on pore-pressure evolution due to thermal gradients in clay rocks without arriving at a consensus. Numerical experiments based on models are a widely used method in the geosciences to test the relevance of physical…
On the role of plastic flow in THM simulations capturing glacial cycle effects on German nuclear waste repositories in clay rock
To properly assess the present and future conditions of potential nuclear waste repository sites, understanding their evolution in the past is mandatory. Here, glaciation cycles strongly affect the long-term thermo-hydro-mechanical (THM) evolution of the geosystem. The AREHS project studies the effects of time-dependent boundary conditions on the long-term evolution of large-scale hydrogeological systems. The focus is on numerical modeling using …
Moral Feelings, Moral Reality, and Moral Progress
This book consists of two essays that are related to each other: “Gut Feelings and Moral Knowledge” and “Moral Reality and Moral Progress.” The longer second essay has not been previously published. Both are concerned with moral epistemology and our means of access to moral truth; both are concerned with moral realism and with the resistance to subjectivist and reductionist accounts of morality; and both are concerned with the historical developm…
Analytic Philosophy and Human Life
This book collects Thomas Nagel’s recent philosophical reflections on topics of fundamental interest: ethics, moral psychology, science and religion, death and the Holocaust, and the metaphysics of mind. Among the figures discussed are Peter Singer, Alvin Plantinga, Christine Korsgaard, Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Iris Murdoch, T. M. Scanlon, Ronald Dworkin, Samuel Scheffler, Daniel Kahneman, Jonathan Haidt, Joshua Greene, and Daniel Denne…
Model-Experiment-Exercises (MEX)
The basic idea of Model-Experiment-Exercises (MEX) is to link modelling and experimental works from the very beginning i.e. in the conceptual phase. Due to the complexity of each part in the systems analysis, this combination is sometimes lost. Moreover, both models and experiments require highly sophisticated tools and equipment as well as highly specialized professionals, which also necessitate adequate measures and incentives for collaboration…
Synthesis and Outlook
As a result of the GeomInt research project (Chap. 1) a broad combined experimental and numerical platform for the investigation of discontinuities due to swelling and shrinking processes (WP1, Sect. 2.3), pressure-driven percolation (WP2, Sect. 2.4) and stress redistribution (WP3, Sect. 2.4) for important reservoir and barrier rocks (clay, salt, crystalline) has been developed. Model comparisons for damage and fracture processes driven by differ…
Introduction to GeomInt
The use of the subsurface as a source of resources, a storage space and for installing underground municipal or traffic infrastructure has become much more intensive and diverse in recent years. In addition to classical anthropogenic interventions such as mining, oil and gas production or tunnel construction, other forms of underground use have come into the focus of economic, political and scientific research, particularly in connection with the…
GeomInt–Mechanical Integrity of Host Rocks
This open access book summarizes the results of the collaborative project “GeomInt: Geomechanical integrity of host and barrier rocks - experiment, modeling and analysis of discontinuities” within the Program: Geo Research for Sustainability (GEO: N) of the Federal Ministry of Education .
Moral Reality and Moral Progress
War and Moral Responsibility
Thermo-poromechanical induced seismic effects during diking
Dike propagation in the earth crust, often a precursor of major volcanic eruptions, usually generates a seismic response by activating small fractures (micro-seismicity) and larger existing faults (greater magnitude events). The conceptual interpretation is essentially viewed as a fluid-driven fracture advancing in the rock mass and altering the existing state of stress in its surroundings. Because dikes are filled with high-temperature magma, wh…
Closing Remarks
Simulation of Laboratory Tests
Basics of Thermomechanics and Inelasticity
Simulating Gas Storage in Salt Caverns
Computational Geotechnics
Computational Geotechnics
The Problem of Global Justice
The concept of justice can be used in evaluating many different things, from the criminal law to the market economy. This chapter concerns socioeconomic justice, and whether anything can be made of it on a world scale. It focuses on the application to the world as a whole of two central issues of traditional political theory: the relation between justice and sovereignty, and the scope and limits of equality as a demand of justice. The two issues …
Mortal Questions
Thomas Nagel's Mortal Questions explores some fundamental issues concerning the meaning, nature and value of human life. Questions about our attitudes to death, sexual behaviour, social inequality, war and political power are shown to lead to more obviously philosophical problems about personal identity, consciousness, freedom and value. This original and illuminating book aims at a form of understanding that is both theoretical and personal in i…
Mind and cosmos
The modern materialist approach to life has conspicuously failed to explain such central mind-related features of our world as consciousness, intentionality, meaning, and value. This failure to account for something so integral to nature as mind, argues philosopher Thomas Nagel, is a major problem, threatening to unravel the entire naturalistic world picture, extending to biology, evolutionary theory, and cosmology. Since minds are features of bi…
Secular Philosophy and the Religious Temperament
This volume collects recent essays and reviews by Thomas Nagel in three subject areas. The first section, including the title essay, is concerned with religious belief and some of the philosophical questions connected with it, such as the relation between religion and evolutionary theory, the question of why there is something rather than nothing, and the significance for human life of our place in the cosmos. It includes a defense of the relevan…
Secular Philosophy and the Religious Temperament
This volume collects recent essays and reviews by Thomas Nagel in three subject areas. The first section, including the title essay, is concerned with religious belief and some of the philosophical questions connected with it, such as the relation between religion and evolutionary theory, the question of why there is something rather than nothing, and the significance for human life of our place in the cosmos. It includes a defense of the relevan…
What Is It Like to Be a Bat
Consciousness is what makes the mind-body problem really intractable. Perhaps that is why current discussions of the problem give it little attention or get it obviously wrong. The recent wave of reductionist euphoria has produced several analyses of mental phenomena and mental concepts designed to explain the possibility of some variety of materialism, psychophysical identification, or reduction. But the problems dealt with are those common to t…
Equality and Partiality
Rawls on Justice
The view from nowhere
Other Minds
Over the past twenty-five years, Thomas Nagel has played a major role in the philosophico-biological debate on subjectivity and consciousness. This extensive collection of published essays and reviews offers Nagel's opinionated views on the philosophy of mind, epistemology, and political philosophy, as well as on fellow philosophers like Freud, Wittgenstein, Rawls, Dennet, Chomsky, Searle, Nozick, Dworkin, and MacIntyre
Conceiving the Impossible and the Mind-Body Problem
Las intuiciones basadas en la perspectiva de la primera persona facilmente nos pueden inducir a error sobre lo que es y no es concebible. Este punto usualmente se presenta como apoyo de posiciones reduccionistas comunes sobre el problema mente-cuerpo, pero considero que se puede separar de tal perspectiva. Me parece que la fuerte apariencia de contingencia en la relacion entre el funcionamiento del organismo fisico y la mente consciente –una apar…
Redemptive Suffering in Islam. A Study of the Devotional Aspects of Ashura' in Twelver Shiism
The series Religion and Society (RS) contributes to the exploration of religions as social systems both in Western and non-Western societies; in particular, it examines religions in their differentiation from, and intersection with, other cultural systems, such as art, economy, law and politics. Due attention is given to paradigmatic case or comparative studies that exhibit a clear theoretical orientation with the empirical and historical data of…
Brain bisection and the unity of consciousness
Hobbes's Concept of Obligation
Taxes, Redistribution, and Public Provision
Physicalism
Mortal Questions
Divine Word and Prophetic Word in Early Islam. A Reconsideration of the Sources, with Special Reference to the Divine Saying or Hadith Qudsi
Aristotle on Eudaimonia1
The Later Ghaznavids
Biobibliography of Ismaili Literature
Philosophy, Morality and International Affairs
Armstrong on the Mind
The Boundaries of Inner Space
The View From Nowhere
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access The View From Nowhere. BY Thomas Nagel. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986. Pp. xii + 244. Price £17.50) A. W. Moore A. W. Moore King's College, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 37, Issue 148, July 1987, Pages 323–327, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220404 Published: 01 July 1987
Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy
Hobbes's Concept of Obligation
Physicalism
Attention
The Boundaries of Inner Space
Armstrong on the Mind
The Absurd
Brain bisection and the unity of consciousness
Content and Consciousness.
Preface to the Routledge Classics Edition Preface to the Second Edition Preface to the First Edition Part 1: The Language of the Mind I. The Ontological Problem of the Mind 1. The Mind and Science 2. Existence and Identity II. Intentionality 3. The Problem of Intentionality 4. Two Blind Alleys 5. The Way Out III. Evolution of the Brain 6. The Intelligent Use of Information 7. The Evolution of Appropriate Structures 8. Goal-directed Behaviour IV. …
Aristotle on Eudaimonia1
The Possibility of Altruism
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access The Possibility of Altruism. By Thomas Nagel. (Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1970. Pp. ix + 148. Price £1.50) John Benson John Benson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 22, Issue 86, January 1972, Pages 82–83, https://doi.org/10.2307/2218611 Published: 01 January 1972
Rawls on Justice
Rights and Wrongs of Abortion
What Is It Like to Be a Bat
Consciousness is what makes the mind-body problem really intractable. Perhaps that is why current discussions of the problem give it little attention or get it obviously wrong. The recent wave of reductionist euphoria has produced several analyses of mental phenomena and mental concepts designed to explain the possibility of some variety of materialism, psychophysical identification, or reduction. But the problems dealt with are those common to t…
Libertarianism without Foundations
Philosophy, Morality and International Affairs
The Justification of Equality
The Possibility of Altruism
Just as there are rational requirements on thought, there are rational requirements on action. This book defends a conception of ethics, and a related conception of human nature, according to which altruism is included among the basic rational requirements on desire and action
The Later Ghaznavids
Love and War. Adventures from the Firuz Shah Nama of Sheikh Bighami
Aristotle on Eudaimonia
Marx, Justice and History
The political and ideological turmoil of the late 1960's stimulated among Anglo-American philosophers a new interest in applying moral philosophy to the problems of contemporary society, and a search for critical perspectives on Marx and Marxist thought. These essays, originally published in Philosophy & Public Affairs, contribute to both these areas in the form of new Marxist scholarship and in illuminating the way in which Marxist criticism and…
Mortal Questions
Mortal Questions
Biobibliography of Ismaili Literature
Divine Word and Prophetic Word in Early Islam. A Reconsideration of the Sources, with Special Reference to the Divine Saying or Hadith Qudsi
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