TY - BOOK AU - Nagel,Thomas TI - Mind and cosmos: why the materialist neo-Darwinian conception of nature is almost certainly false SN - 9780199980369 (ebook) : AV - BD511 .N34 2012 U1 - 113 23 PY - 2012/// CY - New York, Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Darwin, Charles, KW - Cosmology KW - Cosmogony KW - Science KW - Philosophy N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - 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 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199919758.001.0001 ER -