Book Reviews

Thomas Nagel, Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, 130p (Kindle version). Thomas Nagel sets himself the task of revealing the limits of a Neo-Darwinian Materialist arguments accounting for the origin of the cosmos. Nagel calls this Neo-Darwinian Materialist argument “reductionism” – the reduction of the cosmos to material argument to the exclusion of “Mind” or “noos” or “consciousness.” The material reductionism of the cosmos is a fundamental mistake, which Nagel holds Neo-Darwinism accountable for. However, following the argumentative principle of moving from the known to the unknown, Nagel started out with aRead More →