A Flawed Challenge Worth Pondering

摘要

What are the limits of the scientific method? This is the question that lies at the heart of Mind and Cosmos. With science laying ever-increasing claims on questions once regarded as unanswerable by empirical means, philosopher Thomas Nagel argues that science is-in principle-unable to explain the mind. And because "mind is not just an afterthought or an accident or an add-on, but a basic aspect of nature," science's inability to account for mentality strikes at the core of its endeavor to make sense of the world.