Tag: Mind and Cosmos
Little Book, Big Waves — Nagel’s Mind and Cosmos, Nine Years Later
As a colleague points out, Nagel’s departure from the “right-thinking consensus” is on a par with David Gelernter’s 2019 farewell to Darwinism.
Why Science and Atheism Don’t Mix
Physicist John Polkinghorne says that the reduction of mental events to physics and chemistry destroys meaning.
From The Atlantic on Teaching Human Evolution, a Bit of Rare Honesty in Reporting
With permission from John West and Sarah Chaffee, here is the full text of their interview with staff writer Olga Khazan.
Defecting from Darwinian Naturalism: A Review of Thomas Nagel’s Mind & Cosmos
About a decade ago I would muse on what it might take for intelligent design to win the day.
Coyne Disses Shapiro, but Shapiro Inspires Koonin — and Natural Selection Is the Main Issue
Although their offices are located only one block apart on the University of Chicago campus, the biological perspectives of Jerry Coyne and Jim Shapiro might as well be located in different galaxies.