What Is It Like to Be a Bat?

This edition commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of Thomas Nagel’s influential essay "What is it Like to be a Bat?", which explores the enduring challenges of understanding consciousness and the limitations of reductionist science. The collection features the original essay along with a new preface discussing its impact and a supplementary essay featuring Nagel’s later reflections on the mind-body problem. Together, these works highlight the enduring philosophical question of subjective experience and its implications for science and understanding reality.