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    What Is It Like to Be a Bat?

    What Is It Like to Be a Bat?

    FromLit Century

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    What Is It Like to Be a Bat?

    FromLit Century

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    Length:
    42 minutes
    Released:
    Mar 23, 2021
    Format:
    Podcast episode

    Description

    In this episode, hosts Sandra Newman and Catherine Nichols discuss Thomas Nagel's 1974 essay "What Is It Like To Be a Bat?" How did materialism, for centuries the tool of radical thinkers, become the philosophy of the status quo? And why was this philosophical essay about the possibility of understanding other minds—or any minds—so crucial for contemporary thinkers?
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    Released:
    Mar 23, 2021
    Format:
    Podcast episode

    Titles in the series (67)

    Hosts Sandra Newman and Catherine Nichols choose one book for each year of the twentieth century (Nella Larsen's Passing, 1936, Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls, 1966; Mohandas Gandhi's Indian Home Rule, 1909) and talk about it in its historical and literary context. Join the hosts and their special guests to find out what the 20th century was all about.