Title: A fatally flawed book
Product review: It is amazing: the reviews center on the quality of the mathematical/physics presentation (which I think is very high), and totally ignore the fact that this, like virtually all books written in this vein, is supremely naive about fundamental philosophical issues. What I mean, briefly, is this: the book is predicated on an unstated, rigidly held Cartesian dualism, and for dealing with fundamental questions that is a very suspect ground--an expression of what the philosopher Lawrence Cahoone calls "philosophical narcissism." For an antidote, I highly recommend Cahoone's "The Dilemma of Modernity" (SUNY, 1988), or, immodestly, my own "The Unboundaried Self: Putting the Person Back Into the View From Nowhere", published by Trafford (2005; Details at [...]).
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