There is, he believes, a problem of consciousness, a scientific problem, but not a mystery in the way that philosophers like Thomas Nagel and Colin McGinn think there is.

ECONOMIST: Philosophy of consciousness

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 Certainly False.

FORBES: The Darwinist 'Mob' That Wasn't

The Darwinists are fixing to crucify Thomas Nagel.

FORBES: The Darwinist 'Mob' That Wasn't

Thomas Nagel, a distinguished American philosopher, once remarked that to say now that consciousness is a physical state of the brain is to be in the position of an ancient Greek who proclaims that matter is energy: what he says is true, but there is no understanding of how it can be true, no framework into which to fit the discovery.

ECONOMIST: Philosophy of consciousness