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I wonder why NYU Professor of Philosophy Thomas Nagels 2012 book "Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly Fa
by riesnerd 9y ago
I wonder why NYU Professor of Philosophy Thomas Nagels 2012 book "Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False" until this point hasn't been mentioned in this thread?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_and_Cosmos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_and_Cosmos
https://books.google.de/books?id=pOzNcdmhjIYC&printsec=frontcover&hl=de&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false https://books.google.de/books?id=pOzNcdmhjIYC&printsec=front...
- eli_gottlieb 9y agoBecause, let's be frank, Nagel's work is bad and he should feel bad. There's ongoing work in producing naturalistic explanations for both consciousness and morality, so Nagel doesn't get to use those as, "Therefore we need to throw out all our existing science for a theory of teleology that makes no actual predictions other than that Thomas Nagel's intuitions should come out one way."