There's Something About Mary: Essays on Phenomenal Consciousness and Frank Jackson's Knowledge ArgumentPeter Ludlow, Yujin Nagasawa, Daniel Stoljar MIT Press, 2004. nov. 19. - 486 oldal In Frank Jackson's famous thought experiment, Mary is confined to a black-and-white room and educated through black-and-white books and lectures on a black-and-white television. In this way, she learns everything there is to know about the physical world. If physicalism—the doctrine that everything is physical—is true, then Mary seems to know all there is to know. What happens, then, when she emerges from her black-and-white room and sees the color red for the first time? Jackson's knowledge argument says that Mary comes to know a new fact about color, and that, therefore, physicalism is false. The knowledge argument remains one of the most controversial and important arguments in contemporary philosophy.There's Something About Mary—the first book devoted solely to the argument—collects the main essays in which Jackson presents (and later rejects) his argument along with key responses by other philosophers. These responses are organized around a series of questions: Does Mary learn anything new? Does she gain only know-how (the ability hypothesis), or merely get acquainted with something she knew previously (the acquaintance hypothesis)? Does she learn a genuinely new fact or an old fact in disguise? And finally, does she really know all the physical facts before her release, or is this a "misdescription"? The arguments presented in this comprehensive collection have important implications for the philosophy of mind and the study of consciousness. |
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... physical sciences and psychology . The physical sciences , by which I mean roughly physics , chemistry , and biology , tell us that human beings are very complex aggregations of molecules that make up the cells , neurons , blood , and ...
... physical sciences and psychology . The physical sciences , by which I mean roughly physics , chemistry , and biology , tell us that human beings are very complex aggregations of molecules that make up the cells , neurons , blood , and ...
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... physical sciences — or so it seems . The kinetic theory of gases tells us how to get pressure and temperature out of a certain kind of aggregation of purely physical elements obeying purely physical laws . Per- haps functionalism and ...
... physical sciences — or so it seems . The kinetic theory of gases tells us how to get pressure and temperature out of a certain kind of aggregation of purely physical elements obeying purely physical laws . Per- haps functionalism and ...
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... physical facts , or states of affairs , or events , or happenings , and so on , can be known under many aspects , or modes of presentation , or qua things falling under one or another concept , and that you can know something under one ...
... physical facts , or states of affairs , or events , or happenings , and so on , can be known under many aspects , or modes of presentation , or qua things falling under one or another concept , and that you can know something under one ...
xx. oldal
... physical truths about smelling roses . And the issue is not whether it is psychologically possible to know all the physical truths of this sort without knowing the phenomenal truths ; perhaps this is not psy- chologically possible . The ...
... physical truths about smelling roses . And the issue is not whether it is psychologically possible to know all the physical truths of this sort without knowing the phenomenal truths ; perhaps this is not psy- chologically possible . The ...
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... physical objects is analogous to the blind person's epistemic position with respect to light : " physical objects remain unknown in their intrinsic nature , at least as far as discovered by means of the senses " ( ibid . , p . 34 ) ...
... physical objects is analogous to the blind person's epistemic position with respect to light : " physical objects remain unknown in their intrinsic nature , at least as far as discovered by means of the senses " ( ibid . , p . 34 ) ...
Tartalomjegyzék
Epiphenomenal Qualia | 39 |
What Mary Didnt Know | 51 |
Does She Learn Anything? | 57 |
Epiphenomenal Qualia? | 59 |
Dennett on the Knowledge Argument | 69 |
The Ability Hypothesis | 75 |
What Experience Teaches | 77 |
Motion Blindness and the Knowledge Argument | 105 |
What Mary Couldnt Know Belief About Phenomenal States | 241 |
Phenomenal Concepts and the Knowledge Argument | 269 |
Did She Know Everything Physical? | 299 |
Jackson on Physical Information and Qualia | 301 |
Two Conceptions of the Physical | 309 |
Inexpressible Truths and the Allure of the Knowledge Argument | 333 |
So Many Ways of Saying No to Mary | 365 |
Postscripts | 407 |
Knowing What It Is Like The Ability Hypothesis and the Knowledge Argument | 143 |
The Acquaintance Hypothesis | 161 |
Knowing Qualia A Reply to Jackson with Postscript 1997 | 163 |
Acquaintance with Qualia | 179 |
10 Phenomenal Knowledge | 197 |
Old Facts New Modes | 217 |
Phenomenal States Revised Version | 219 |
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xx. oldal - Mary is confined to a black-and-white room, is educated through black-andwhite books and through lectures relayed on black-and-white television. In this way she learns everything there is to know about the physical nature of the world. She knows all the physical facts about us and our environment, in a wide sense of "physical...
xx. oldal - She knows all the physical facts about us and our environment, in a wide sense of "physical" which includes everything in completed physics, chemistry, and neurophysiology, and all there is to know about the causal and relational facts consequent upon all this, including of course functional roles. If physicalism is true, she knows all there is to know. For to suppose otherwise is to suppose that there is more to know than every physical fact, and that is just what physicalism denies.