Mind and cosmos [electronic resource] : why the materialist neo-Darwinian conception of nature is almost certainly false /
by Nagel, Thomas.
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BookPublisher: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012Description: 1 online resource (x, 130 p.).ISBN: 9780199980369 (ebook) :.Subject(s): Cosmology | Cosmogony | Science -- Philosophy | Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: Thomas Nagel argues that the widely accepted world view of materialist naturalism is untenable. The mind-body problem cannot be confined to the relation between animal minds and animal bodies. If materialism cannot accommodate consciousness and other mind-related aspects of reality, then we must abandon a purely materialist understanding of nature in general, extending to biology, evolutionary theory, and cosmology.
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Thomas Nagel argues that the widely accepted world view of materialist naturalism is untenable. The mind-body problem cannot be confined to the relation between animal minds and animal bodies. If materialism cannot accommodate consciousness and other mind-related aspects of reality, then we must abandon a purely materialist understanding of nature in general, extending to biology, evolutionary theory, and cosmology.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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