Is there a greater gesture of intellectual contempt than the notion that a tweet constitutes an adequate intervention in a serious discussion? But when Thomas Nagel’s formidable book Mind and Cosmos ...

It may be that the distance between educated amateur and scientific expert has widened since the 19th century, but the religious sensitivities Darwinism inflames seem to have remained fairly ...

Alert, David Brooks, alert! Here is an entry in your annual Sidney Awards for best magazine essays of the year: Andy Ferguson’s wonderful piece about the philosopher Thomas Nagel, and how, despite ...

Thomas Nagel is no stranger to controversy when it comes to arguments over intelligent design, Darwinism and evolution. His criticism of the federal court's decision in Kitzmiller vs. Dover Area ...

Thomas Nagel, in Mind and Cosmos, despairs of finding a place for values in the world as it is described by physical and biological science. This gives me today's theme. (See my last two posts — here ...

Last Fall, Thomas Nagel, the respected philosopher who teaches at NYU, published Mind and Cosmos, with the provocative subtitle, Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost ...

Should we survive the next three years, the odds are good we will look back on Donald Trump’s second presidency as the “Years of Living Absurdly.” This, at least, is the view of media outlets, ranging ...