Thomas Nagel

American philosopher who argued that consciousness involves subjective experience that cannot be explained by objective physical descriptions, and developed accounts of moral luck, political philosophy, and the limits of objective reason.

What Is It Like to Be a Bat: consciousness has an irreducible subjective character — there is something it is like to be a bat — that cannot be captured by any objective physical account; this is the hard problem of consciousness. The View from Nowhere: the tension between subjective and objective standpoints is irreducible — it generates problems in ethics, knowledge, and freedom. Moral Luck: many morally significant differences between people are the result of factors outside their control.