April 11, 2008

Books

Material Guy

The Really Hard ProblemMeaning in a Material WorldOwen FlanaganMIT Press, $27.95, 288 pp.

Paul J. Griffiths

Philosophers of mind these days don’t usually have much to say one way or the other about religion. This is because most of them think that a complete inventory of what there is in the world yields only physical entities (they are physicalists), and that there are no supernatural entitites—no gods, no God, no demons, no angels (they are naturalists). These commitments make (...)


 

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