As a work of philosophical theology and process metaphysics, Mind, Value, and Cosmos deserves serious engagement from specialists in these areas of study. Interested general readers will also find much to consider in this intellectually stimulating book.

Process Studies

In this book, Davis provides an excellent example of traditional metaphysics and philosophical theology. It brings intellectual rigour to key questions regarding Ultimate Reality, which according to him is relationality…. This is an outstanding book which all who are interested in questions concerning Mind, Value, Cosmos and God-world relationships should read. Also, it travels along with several thinkers through history which, besides being significant for the context of the book, also serve as a good reminder of their work and thinking. Moreover, Davis offers a fantastic presentation of Leslie´s, Ward´s and Whitehead’s thinking around the questions mentioned above. I can only congratulate Andrew Davis for his outstanding piece of research.

European Society for the Study of Science and Theology

Why is there a cosmos instead of utter emptiness? The answer could be found in connections between a divine mind, its value, the existence of everything. Expert and very readable, this book develops suggestions from Plato, Spinoza, Hegel, Whitehead, and writers of today.

John Leslie, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada

An outstanding and important defense of an original Process-influenced metaphysics which positively advances philosophical thinking in this area in a very creative way. This book deserves a wide readership.

Keith Ward, Fellow of the British Academy

It is only rarely that one comes across a work of an author that is brilliant in its argumentation on such fragile and mysterious matters as the ultimate sources of being…The proposed solution of a mutuality of ultimate sources and their interspace of togetherness is a welcome and fresh approach worth considering.

Roland Faber, Founder and Executive Director, Whitehead Research Project

If the mystery of existence obsesses you, if that the world works fixates you, then Mind, Value and Cosmos is for you. Davis explores why there is anything at all, why actualities seem shockingly amenable for consciousness, by triangulating John Leslie’s value, Keith Ward’s idealism, and Alfred North Whitehead’s process philosophy—with cameo contributions from Paul Davies, Peter Forrest, Thomas Nagel, John Polkinghorne, Nicholas Rescher, Richard Swinburne, Steven Weinberg, others. The relational nature of ultimacy, subsuming Mind and Value, is a distinction. (Videos of Leslie, Ward, others on Closer To Truth.)

Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Creator, Host, Writer, Closer To Truth (www.closertotruth.com)