03259nam 2200649 450 991081477640332120230124190756.00-19-997719-40-19-991976-30-19-998036-5(CKB)2670000000335431(StDuBDS)AH24394136(SSID)ssj0000820939(PQKBManifestationID)12361687(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000820939(PQKBWorkID)10864180(PQKB)11651973(StDuBDS)EDZ0000107411(MiAaPQ)EBC3055911(Au-PeEL)EBL3055911(CaPaEBR)ebr10816643(CaONFJC)MIL550760(OCoLC)865508500(EXLCZ)99267000000033543120120103d2012 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrMind and cosmos why the materialist neo-Darwinian conception of nature is almost certainly false /Thomas NagelNew York :Oxford University Press,2012.1 online resource (x, 130 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-19-991975-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.1Introduction3 --2Antireductionism and the Natural Order13 --3Consciousness35 --4Cognition71 --5Value97 --6Conclusion127.In Mind and Cosmos 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. Since minds are features ofbiological systems that have developed through evolution, the standard materialist version of evolutionary biology is fundamentally incomplete. And the cosmological history that led to the origin of life and the coming into existence of the conditions for evolution cannot be a merely materialist history. An adequateconception of nature would have to explain the appearance in the universe of materially irreducible conscious minds, as such. No such explanation is available, and the physical sciences, including molecular biology, cannot be expected to provide one. The book explores these problems through a general treatment of the obstacles to reductionism, with more specific application to the phenomena of consciousness, cognition, and value. The conclusion is that physics cannot be the theory ofeverything.CosmologyCosmogonyBeginningCreationSciencePhilosophyCosmology.Cosmogony.Beginning.Creation.SciencePhilosophy.113Nagel Thomas1937-25897MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910814776403321Mind and cosmos3918857UNINA