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Thomas Nagel: Mind and Cosmos. Why the Materialist, Neo-Darwinian Conception is Almost Certainly False

Oxford University Press, Oxford/New York 2012, 144 pp, $24.95, ISBN: 978-0199919758

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  1. To be sure analytical metaethics produced a broad spectrum of quite different subjectivits theories from Ayer’s and Stevenson’s emotivism to Hare’s prescriptivism.

  2. Scanlon, Nagel, Dworkin, Larmore and in Germany von Kutschera and myself are some of its representatives.

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Nida-Rümelin, J. Thomas Nagel: Mind and Cosmos. Why the Materialist, Neo-Darwinian Conception is Almost Certainly False. J Gen Philos Sci 45, 403–406 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10838-014-9262-8

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