عنوان

Mind and cosmos :

شابک

0199919763

شابک

0199980365

شابک

9780199919765

شابک

9780199980369

شابک اشتباه

0199919755

شابک اشتباه

9780199919758

شماره

dltt

عنوان اصلي

Mind and cosmos :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

why the materialist neo-Darwinian conception of nature is almost certainly false /

نام نخستين پديدآور

Thomas Nagel

نام خاص و کميت اثر

1 online resource (x, 130 pages)

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references and index

متن يادداشت

Introduction -- Antireductionism and the natural order -- Consciousness -- Cognition -- Value -- Conclusion

بدون عنوان

0

متن يادداشت

The modern materialist approach to life has conspicuously failed to explain such central mind-related features of our world as consciousness, intentionality, meaning, and value. This failure to account for something so integral to nature as mind, argues philosopher Thomas Nagel, is a major problem, threatening to unravel the entire naturalistic world picture, extending to biology, evolutionary theory, and cosmology. Since minds are features of biological 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, either. An adequate conception of nature would have to explain the appearance in the universe of materially irreducible conscious minds, as such. Nagel's skepticism is not based on religious belief or on a belief in any definite alternative. In Mind and Cosmos, he does suggest that if the materialist account is wrong, then principles of a different kind may also be at work in the history of nature, principles of the growth of order that are in their logical form teleological rather than mechanistic. In spite of the great achievements of the physical sciences, reductive materialism is a world view ripe for displacement. Nagel shows that to recognize its limits is the first step in looking for alternatives, or at least in being open to their possibility.--Publisher description

عنوان

Mind and cosmos

شماره استاندارد بين المللي کتاب و موسيقي

9780199919758

موضوع مستند نشده

Darwin, Charles,1809-1882

موضوع مستند نشده

Beginning

موضوع مستند نشده

Cosmogony

موضوع مستند نشده

Cosmology

موضوع مستند نشده

Creation

موضوع مستند نشده

Science-- Philosophy

موضوع مستند نشده

SCI-- 015000

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Nagel, Thomas,1937-

تاريخ عمليات

20170726092745.0

قواعد فهرست نويسي ( بخش توصيفي )

pn

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y