discussion on the book 'The Mind and the Cosmos' by Thomas Nagel

Author: Lourdes Flamarique and Enrique Moros.
Date of publication: Pamplona, 18 November 2014.

Lourdes Flamarique. Professor of department of Philosophy and Vice-Dean of Office of Academic Affairs of the School of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Navarra. She has participated as an advisor in the editing of Nagel's book.

Enrique Moros. Professor of the Ecclesiastical School of Philosophy and member of the group CRYF of the University of Navarra. He is a good connoisseur of the analytical philosophical tradition and of the discussion theism-atheism in the contemporary Philosophy .

summaryHe isthe author of the book "The mind and the cosmos. Why the neo-Darwinian materialist conception of nature is almost certainly false". This is the provocative degree scroll of the book that Tomas Nagel has published this year at Spanish. The author's prestige as a philosopher, and his declared atheism, has caused this small text to provoke an important discussion for its content, and for its great media repercussion. In this seminar Professor Flamarique makes a brief introduction to the most relevant points of the book and Professor Moros exposes, also briefly, the main criticisms received by the text. These interventions serve as a guide to open a colloquium between the speakers and those attending the seminar on the topics mentioned.