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“Nagel is a hugely influential and respected philosopher of recent times, and I think this book really shocked the philosophy world when it was published in 2012 with the subtitle ‘Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False.’ Maybe he felt bold enough to publish this controversial book in his older years, but he was arguing that a range of phenomena – consciousness, moral knowledge, reason – cannot be accounted for, in his view, in the traditional materialist Darwinian framework. Ultimately, he said that we need a new paradigm, and although we don’t know what it is, here’s a first guess: teleological laws with purposes built into them…This was an act of heresy and it got treated as such. The book received incredibly aggressive reviews.” Read more...
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Philip Goff, Philosopher
