- The Core of ‘Mind and Cosmos’
- Thomas Nagel wrote a short outline of his book "Mind and Cosmos" for the New York Times. He attributes a lot of the criticism he’s been getting to people worried that he’s giving comfort to theism. If so, that reflects badly on the critics, because arguments are not soldiers, etc. etc. Via Massimo Pigliucci.
(tags: nagel philosophy consciousness thomas-nagel science)
Seems possibly a bit confused about what exactly gets covered by “physical”, perhaps this is more carefully covered in the longer version. But I go for (a).