Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False

by Thomas Nagel

Book Overview

The modern materialist approach to life has conspicuously failed to explain such central mind-related features of our world as consciousness, intentionality, meaning, and value. This failure to account for something so integral to nature as mind, argues philosopher Thomas Nagel, is a major problem, threatening to unravel the entire naturalistic world picture, extending to biology, evolutionary theory, and cosmology.

Since minds are features...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199919755
• ISBN13: 9780199919758
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.4"