The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World
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The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World is a philosophical book by Owen Flanagan that explores how meaning, morality, and purpose can arise within a purely naturalistic, scientifically understood universe.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World Context triple: [Owen Flanagan, notableWork, The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World]
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"Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False"
"Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False" is a controversial 2012 philosophical book by Thomas Nagel that challenges mainstream materialist and evolutionary explanations of mind, consciousness, and value.
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The Question of Consciousness
"The Question of Consciousness" is a chapter in the Dalai Lama’s book *The Universe in a Single Atom* that explores the nature of consciousness through dialogue between Buddhist philosophy and modern science.
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Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist
"Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist" is a book by neuroscientist Christof Koch that blends personal memoir with a scientific exploration of the neural basis of conscious experience.
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D.
The Rediscovery of the Mind
The Rediscovery of the Mind is a philosophical work by John Searle that critiques computational and reductionist theories of consciousness and argues for a biologically grounded account of the mind.
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Neurophilosophy: Toward a Unified Science of the Mind-Brain
Neurophilosophy: Toward a Unified Science of the Mind-Brain is a foundational book that integrates neuroscience and philosophy to explore how brain science can inform and reshape our understanding of the mind.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World Target entity description: The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World is a philosophical book by Owen Flanagan that explores how meaning, morality, and purpose can arise within a purely naturalistic, scientifically understood universe.
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A.
"Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False"
"Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False" is a controversial 2012 philosophical book by Thomas Nagel that challenges mainstream materialist and evolutionary explanations of mind, consciousness, and value.
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B.
The Question of Consciousness
"The Question of Consciousness" is a chapter in the Dalai Lama’s book *The Universe in a Single Atom* that explores the nature of consciousness through dialogue between Buddhist philosophy and modern science.
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C.
Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist
"Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist" is a book by neuroscientist Christof Koch that blends personal memoir with a scientific exploration of the neural basis of conscious experience.
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D.
The Rediscovery of the Mind
The Rediscovery of the Mind is a philosophical work by John Searle that critiques computational and reductionist theories of consciousness and argues for a biologically grounded account of the mind.
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E.
Neurophilosophy: Toward a Unified Science of the Mind-Brain
Neurophilosophy: Toward a Unified Science of the Mind-Brain is a foundational book that integrates neuroscience and philosophy to explore how brain science can inform and reshape our understanding of the mind.
- F. None of above. chosen
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