___________________________________________________________  Serdal Tümkaya, Arş. Gör. Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Fen Edebiyat Fakültesi Felsefe Bölümü 06800, Çankaya, Ankara, TRserdal82@gmail.com Beytulhikme An International Journal of Philosophy © Beytulhikme Philosophy Circle Beytulhikme Int Jour Phil 7 (1) 2017 Research Article: 23-41 ___________________________________________________________ Thomas Nagel’ın 'Fizikalizm' ve 'Yarasa Olmak Nasıl Bir Şeydir' Makalelerinin Bilince Nesnel Bir Açıklama Verme Arayışı Açısından Kıyaslanması ___________________________________________________________ The Comparison of 'Physicalism' and 'What is It Like to be a Bat?' of Thomas Nagel in the Context of the Search for Giving an Objective Ac- count of Consciousness SERDAL TÜMKAYA Middle East Technical University Received: 01.03.2017Accepted: 05.06.2017 Abstract: “What is it Like to be a Bat” (1974) and “The View from Nowhere” (1986) of Thomas Nagel are two extremely cited pieces of analytic philosophy in the last century. The arguments presented in those works have been frequently cited as either problems of giving an objective-scientific account of consciousness or an outright denial of the possibility of a physicalist characterization of it. After summariz- ing all of them, I turn to show why they are mistaken. By this, I hope I will be able to show that all these mistakes are originated from either blatantly ignoring his objective phenomenology project or misunder- standing it. The reasons that I use to explain these misperceptions would also suggest that Nagel’s objective phenomenology project is some sort of constructing a theoretical and conceptual ground to have an objective account of the subjective aspect of experience. Keywords: Thomas Nagel, physicalism, objectivism, reductionism, Be- ing a Bat. © Tümkaya, S. (2017). Thomas Nagel’ın 'Fizikalizm' ve 'Yarasa Olmak Nasıl Bir Şeydir' Makalelerinin Bilince Nesnel bir Açıklama Verme Arayışı Açısından Kıyaslanması . Bey- tulhikme An International Journal of Philosophy, 7 (1), 23-41.