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  2. Sep 26, 2012 · This book 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.

    • Preface

      The two people who, in very different ways, have had the...

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      In this process, the ability to generate and reject false...

    • Dedication

      'Dedication', Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist...

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      It studies conceptual behaviorism, a strategy that can be...

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      Mind and cosmos : why the materialist neo-Darwinian...

  3. Mar 24, 2021 · 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 ...

  4. Oct 29, 2012 · Nagel thinks there is a wide consensus among philosophers and scientists around a certain view of nature, the 'materialist neo-Darwinian' conception, but that this view has proved radically inadequate.

  5. Sep 26, 2012 · Mind & Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False First Edition by Thomas Nagel (Author) 4.1 4.1 out of 5 stars 664 ratings

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  6. Sep 17, 2013 · Postulating gravity and later electromagnetic fields already went beyond the resources of classical mechanistic materialism, and one would need to know what all of future physics might contain to arrive at a sound characterization of what ‘materialism’ maintains.

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  7. Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False. By Thomas Nagel. Oxford University Press, 2012, pp. 130, £15.99. ISBN-10: 0199919755. Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 May 2013.

  8. Nov 22, 2012 · 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,...