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020 _a9780199980369 (ebook) :
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050 0 _aBD511
_b.N34 2012
082 0 4 _a113
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100 1 _aNagel, Thomas,
_d1937-
245 1 0 _aMind and cosmos
_h[electronic resource] :
_bwhy the materialist neo-Darwinian conception of nature is almost certainly false /
_cThomas Nagel.
260 _aNew York ;
_aOxford :
_bOxford University Press,
_c2012.
300 _a1 online resource (x, 130 p.)
520 8 _aThomas 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.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
588 _aDescription based on print version record.
650 0 _aCosmology.
650 0 _aCosmogony.
650 0 _aScience
_xPhilosophy.
600 1 0 _aDarwin, Charles,
_d1809-1882.
776 0 8 _iPrint version
_z9780199919758
856 4 0 _3Oxford scholarship online
_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199919758.001.0001
999 _c36854
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