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The Knowledge Argument Against Physicalism


Knowledge Argument Against Physicalism

On Jackson's version of the knowledge argument, the assumption that Mary knows the complete physical truth about the world does not guarantee that she will be ...

Qualia: The Knowledge Argument

The knowledge argument aims to establish that conscious experience involves non-physical properties. It rests on the idea that someone who ...

The Knowledge Argument Against Physicalism

We have an argument against physicalism, known as the knowledge argument: Mary apparently learns a new fact about human color experience.

Knowledge argument - Wikipedia

The experiment is intended to argue against physicalism—the view that the universe, including all that is mental, is entirely physical. Jackson says that the " ...

The Knowledge Argument - Bibliography - PhilPapers

Physicalists have replied in many different ways. Some argue that Mary gains an ability without learning a new fact. Others argue that she gains acquaintance ...

Is Frank Jackson's Knowledge Argument about ... - David Dennen

The Knowledge Argument purports to demonstrate that physicalism is false. What Jackson seems to mean is that the world as described by “the ...

The Knowledge Argument - Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

Howell, are less tightly focused on the knowledge argument. Goff's chapter presents an argument against physicalism which is substantively ...

The Knowledge Argument against Physicalism: Its Proponents ... - jstor

which is slightly different from physicalism. 2 Generally speaking, arguments against physicalism such as the knowledge argument are also arguments for the ...

The Knowledge Argument - Mary's Room - YouTube

In this video I set out the Knowledge Argument against Physicalism about mental phenomena and then outline some responses that physicalists ...

The Explanatory Knowledge Argument against Physicalism

I will show that this argument can be defended against the main objections to the original knowledge argument, the ability hypothesis and the phenomenal concept ...

Qualia: The Knowledge Argument

In many of these cases, the idea is not used to argue directly against physicalism, although such a use is arguably present in Broad (1925). The ...

Arguments against physicalism seem flawed to me. : r/askphilosophy

It's perfectly valid to question the inference from a lack of phenomenal knowledge to anti-physicalism. The challenge is in explaining where the ...

The problem with the knowledge argument - SelfAwarePatterns

What does the knowledge argument actually demonstrate? The argument ... So it doesn't seem like the knowledge argument works against physicalism.

Where Does the Knowledge Argument Go Wrong? - Redalyc

Eventually Jackson himself retracted and claimed that the interesting task is to explain where and why intuition-pumping arguments against physicalism such as ...

Frank Jackson's Knowledge Argument: On Qualia, Physical ...

In “Epiphenomenal Qualia” Frank Jackson argues against Physicalism (the thesis that all correct information is physical information) and for the existence ...

The knowledge argument - Torin Alter - PhilPapers

The KA is an argument against physicalism, the doctrine that everything is physical. The general thrust of the KA is that physicalism errs by misconstruing or ...

Knowledge argument - Oxford Reference

The knowledge argument is an argument against physicalism that was first formulated by Frank Jackson in 1982. Although Jackson no longer endorses it, ...

Phenomenal Concepts and the Knowledge Argument

The classic statement of the knowledge argument against materialism has been given by Frank Jackson (1982). Mary knows everything that can be stated in ...

1 - The Knowledge Argument Is an Argument about Knowledge

This is an important, interesting and fairly controversial conclusion, but it is consistent with both physicalism and dualism. The knowledge argument, I claim, ...

The Knowledge Argument against Physicalism: Its Proponents and ...

The knowledge argument usually takes the form of a thought experiment where the subject, having some psychological deficiency, ...