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Nagel attempts at provocation with its fiery title -Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False- with the intention of getting criticisms to raise interest in his position. However he fails at making clear what this position is. The book argues that the materialist version of evolutionary biology is unable to account for the existence of mind in three essential aspects: consciousness, reason and value. Both in terms of actual realization and historical evolutionary becoming.
His unclear stance orbits around a kind of pre-scientific panpsychism, where mind is a basic aspect of nature, and a kind of non-mystical teleology guides the route from the soup of atoms up to contemporary human mind.
While repetitive and basically empty, it is worth reading to see the main themes of the mysterian philosophy of mind community in relation to natural explanations of mental phenomena.
Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly FalseThomas Nagel
Oxford University Press
Value for time: 5Main value: Phil of Mind perspective; quick reading
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