Check out this extremely thoughtful one-star review of "War of the Worldviews" on Amazon before you buy the book:
http://tinyurl.com/knjgg73 --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <authfriend@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Seraphita" <s3raphita@> wrote: > (snip) > > On the topic of his books, I'm tempted to buy War of the > > Worldviews as I enjoy argy-bargy and I respect Chopra for > > having the balls to engage in open debate with a full-on > > materialist. Anyone read that and would recommend it? > > I haven't read it, but I've heard Chopra on videotape on > the topic and read some of his articles talking about it. > > If you're interested in the debate with materialists, you > could do a lot better than Chopra. He's not what I would > call a rigorous thinker. > > You might try Thomas Nagel's "Mind and Cosmos: Why the > Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost > Certainly False." Robin was just entranced by it. Come to > think of it, he made a bunch of posts quoting from it at > length: > > 323760 > 323779 > 323885 > 323982 > 324204 > 324320 > 324753 > 324858 > > Nagel got in a lot of trouble with the big-time materialists; > the book really upset them, so he must have hit close to the > bone. >
