My short review of David Deutsch's "The Beginning of Infinity" in Physics Today
Here is a link to my short review of David Deutsch's book The Beginning of Infinity, in Physics Today, the monthly magazine for members of the American Physical Society. I had much more to say about...
View ArticleNagel and DeLong I: Common Sense
Brad DeLong has been hammering --- perhaps even bashing --- away at Thomas Nagel's new book Mind and Cosmos (Oxford, 2012). Here's a link to his latest blow. I think Nagel's wrong on several key...
View ArticleNagel and Delong II: Fallibility and Transcendence
In my first post on Brad Delong's series of criticisms of Thomas Nagel's new book Mind and Cosmos I focused not on Brad's initial critcism but on a later post that seemed to be implying Nagel put too...
View ArticleRussell Blackford on Thomas Nagel on "objective values"
Russell Blackford formulates what he thinks is Thomas Nagel's argument for "the existence of objective values". I think I disagree with Blackford on this. Blackford's point seems to be that although...
View ArticleNagel's Mind and Cosmos, Objective Value, Delong and Blackburn
I have trouble understanding why critics of Thomas Nagel's Mind and Cosmos are coming down so hard on his belief that value statements---particularly ethical ones, can (some of them, at any rate) be...
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