What Is It Like to Be a Bat?

A 50th anniversary edition of one of the most widely influential articles of 20th Century philosophy?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 influenc...