If You Want The Truth Rather Than

The Inclusion Of Consequences In The Conception Of What We Have Done Is An Acknowledgement That We Are Parts Of The World, But The Paradoxical Character Of Moral Luck Which Emerges From This Acknowledgement Shows That We Are Unable To Operate With Such A View, For It Leaves Us With No One To Be.

Everything, Living Or Not, Is Constituted From Elements Having A Nature That Is Both Physical And Nonphysical - That Is, Capable Of Combining Into Mental Wholes. So This Reductive Account Can Also Be Described As A Form Of Panpsychism: All The Elements Of The Physical World Are Also Mental.

I Want Atheism To Be True And Am Made Uneasy By The Fact That Some Of The Most Intelligent And Well-informed People I Know Are Religious Believers. It Isn't Just That I Don't Believe In God And, Naturally, I Hope That I'm Right In My Belief. It's That I Hope There Is No God! I Don't Want There To Be A God; I Don't Want The Universe To Be Like That.

What We Take Ourselves To Be Doing When We Think About What Is The Case Or How We Should Act Is Something That Cannot Be Reconciled With A Reductive Naturalism, For Reasons Distinct From Those That Entail The Irreducibility Of Consciousness. It Is Not Merely The Subjectivity Of Thought But Its Capacity To Transcend Subjectivity And To Discover What Is Objectively The Case That Presents A Problem....thought And Reasoning Are Correct Or Incorrect In Virtue Of Something Independent Of The Thinker's Beliefs, And Even Independent Of The Community Of Thinkers To Which He Belongs. (p. 71)

The More Details We Learn About The Chemical Basis Of Life And The Intricacy Of The Genetic Code, The More Unbelievable The Standard Historical Account Becomes