Thomas Nagel

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Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly FalseHardcover, 26 September 2012

Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False
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Print Length
144 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published
26 Sep 2012
ISBN-10
0199919755
ISBN-13
9780199919758

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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 of biological systems that have developed through evolution, the standard materialist version of evolutionary biology is fundamentally incomplete. And the cosmological history that led to the origin of life and the coming into existence of the conditions for evolution cannot be a merely materialist history, either. An adequate conception of nature would have to explain the appearance in the universe of materially irreducible conscious minds, as such.

Nagel's skepticism is not based on religious belief or on a belief in any definite alternative. In Mind and Cosmos, he does suggest that if the materialist account is wrong, then principles of a different kind may also be at work in the history of nature, principles of the growth of order that are in their logical form teleological rather than mechanistic.

In spite of the great achievements of the physical sciences, reductive materialism is a world view ripe for displacement. Nagel shows that to recognize its limits is the first step in looking for alternatives, or at least in being open to their possibility.

Product Details

Author:
Thomas Nagel
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
26 September 2012
Dimensions:
21.34 x 14.22 x 1.78 cm
Genre:
Philosophical
ISBN-10:
0199919755
ISBN-13:
9780199919758
Language:
English
Location:
New York, NY
Pages:
144
Weight:
294.83 gm

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