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Thomas Nagel

1937 - Today

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Thomas Nagel (; born July 4, 1937) is an American philosopher. He is the University Professor of Philosophy and Law Emeritus at New York University, where he taught from 1980 until his retirement in 2016. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Thomas Nagel has received more than 1,083,428 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Thomas Nagel is the 513th most popular philosopher (down from 497th in 2019), the 81st most popular biography from Serbia (down from 68th in 2019) and the most popular Serbian Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Thomas Nagel ranks 513 out of 1,267Before him are Philo of Larissa, Alasdair MacIntyre, Nezahualcoyotl, Shantideva, Yuri Lotman, and Rodolphus Agricola. After him are Linji Yixuan, Charles Taylor, Annemarie Schimmel, A. J. Ayer, Ananda Coomaraswamy, and Louis Couturat.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Thomas Nagel ranks 77Before him are Valentyn Sylvestrov, Dragoslav Šekularac, Tamara Bunke, Hunter S. Thompson, Yılmaz Güney, and Joseph Nye. After him are Valentin Pavlov, Rubin Carter, Rafael Moneo, Jerry Reed, Seymour Hersh, and Roberta Flack.

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In Serbia

Among people born in Serbia, Thomas Nagel ranks 81 out of 661Before him are Petar Stambolić (1912), Paul Abraham (1892), Svetislav Pešić (1949), Vujadin Boškov (1931), Miki Manojlović (1950), and Bata Živojinović (1933). After him are Vuk Drašković (1946), Dušan Ivković (1943), Milunka Savić (1890), Martin of Braga (520), Šaban Šaulić (1951), and Nadežda Petrović (1873).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In Serbia

Among philosophers born in Serbia, Thomas Nagel ranks 1After him are Svetozar Marković (1846).