Thomas Nagel

Thomas Nagel recieved his B.A. from Cornell University in 1958, his B.Phil. from Oxford University in 1960, and his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1963.  He is currently University Professor, Professor of Philosophy, and Professor of Law and New York University. He specializes in Political Philosophy, Ethics, Epistemology, and Philosophy of Mind. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, and a Member of the American Philosophical Society, and has received Guggenheim, N.S.F., and N.E.H. Fellowships, a Mellon Distinguished Achievement Award in the Humanities, the Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy, the Balzan Prize in Moral Philosophy, and honorary degrees from Oxford, Harvard, and the University of Bucharest. He is the author of The Possibility of Altruism (1970, reprinted 1978), Mortal Questions (1979), The View From Nowhere (1986), What Does It All Mean? (1987), Equality and Partiality (1991), Other Minds (1995), The Last Word (1997), The Myth of Ownership: Taxes and Justice (with Liam Murphy, 2002), Concealment and Exposure (2002), and Secular Philosophy and the Religious Temperament (2010).