Fifty years ago, Thomas Nagel famously asked: "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?" (October, 1974) Oxford University Press has republished the philosophical paper of that title in book form with an ...

The author overcame his dependence on pills and alcohol. Now he wants to beat back misconceptions about the science of addiction. “How should we think about addicts’ aims and agency?” This is the ...

In 1974, philosopher Thomas Nagel posed a deceptively simple question: "What is it like to be a bat?" His point wasn't really about bats. He was offering a provocative challenge about the limits of ...

When I speak with colleagues and students about AI therapy, the concern that I most often hear is that AIs are "mindless"—that they are "robots" that "parrot" whatever melange of cognitive behavioral ...

“How should we think about addicts’ aims and agency?” This is the animating question behind Owen Flanagan’s “What Is It Like to Be an Addict?” An emeritus professor of philosophy and neurobiology at ...

In 1974, philosopher Thomas Nagel posed a deceptively simple question: “what is it like to be a bat?”. His point wasn’t really about bats. He was offering a provocative challenge about the limits of ...