On Thomas Nagel's Rejection of Theism

¹ See Plantinga's trilogy on warrant: Warrant: The Current Debate (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993); Warrant and Proper Function (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993); Warranted Christian Belief (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000).

² Plantinga, Alvin, Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011). Nagel published his review of Plantinga's book as “A Philosopher Defends Religion,” The New York Review of Books, September 27, 2012, 62–63.

³ Moreland, James Porter, The Recalcitrant Imago Dei: Human Persons and the Failure of Naturalism (London: SCM Press, 2009).

⁴ Nagel, Thomas, The Last Word (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997).

⁵ Nagel, Mind and Cosmos, 123.

⁶ Nagel cites Broad, Charlie Dunbar's The Mind and Its Place in Nature (London: Routledge, 1925) 81–94 and Bergson, Henri's Creative Evolution (trans. Arthur Mitchell; New York: Henry Holt, 1911).

⁷ Nagel, Mind and Cosmos, 7.

⁸ Ibid., 21.

⁹ Ibid., 25.

¹⁰ Ibid.

¹¹ Ibid.

¹² Ibid., 26.

¹³ Ibid.

¹⁴ Lewis, C. S., Miracles, in C. S. Lewis Signature Classics (New York: HarperOne, 2002) 297–462, at 354.

¹⁵ Ibid.

¹⁶ Ibid. [italics in original].

¹⁷ Ibid.

¹⁸ Ibid., 376.

¹⁹ Ibid., 383.

²⁰ Ibid., 385.

²¹ Ibid., 386.

²² Ibid.

²³ Ibid., 387.

²⁴ Ibid., 388.

²⁵ Ibid.

²⁶ Ibid., 389.

²⁷ Ibid., 395.

²⁸ Ibid., 395–96 [italics in original].

²⁹ Ibid., 401.

* Nagel, Thomas, Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012).