Mind and cosmos: why the materialist neo-Darwinian conception of nature is almost certainly false
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 aba...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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New York Oxford
Oxford University Press
2012
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| In: | Year: 2012 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Nature
/ Cosmology
/ Naturalism (Philosophy)
/ Consciousness
/ Materialism
/ Neo-Darwinism
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| Further subjects: | B
Cosmology
B Cosmogony B Science Philosophy |
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Volltext (Publisher) |
| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
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| 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 130 p.) |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-998036-9 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199919758.001.0001 |
