(September 1, 2021 at 9:20 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: I take Nagel's challenge from "Mind and Cosmos" seriously: "Materialism requires reductionism; therefore the failure of reductionism requires an alternative to materialism."
Except that you can't show the failure of reductionism except by an argument from ignorance, which is invalid. So Nagel's challenge leads nowhere.