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The Knowledge Argument

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The Knowledge Argument

The Knowledge Argument

Sam Coleman, University of Hertfordshire
October 2019
Paperback
9781316506981
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    Frank Jackson's knowledge argument imagines a super-smart scientist, Mary, forced to investigate the mysteries of human colour vision using only black and white resources. Can she work out what it is like to see red from brain-science and physics alone? The argument says no: Mary will only really learn what red looks like when she actually sees it. Something is therefore missing from the science of the mind, and from the 'physicalist' picture of the world based on science. This powerful and controversial argument remains as pivotal as when it was first created in 1982, and this volume provides a thorough and incisive examination of its relevance in philosophy of mind today. The cutting-edge essays featured here break new ground in the debate, and also comprehensively set out the developments in the story of the knowledge argument so far, tracing its impact, past, present, and future.

    • Adopts new approaches to the knowledge argument and to related questions in philosophy of mind
    • Provides a comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of Frank Jackson's famous modern thought experiment
    • Combines new discussion of this influential debate with clear retrospective analysis of its history

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    ‘A significant contribution to the debate surrounding the understanding of consciousness, mind, and matter, the volume includes a collective bibliography of all the essays and a comprehensive index.’ J. Orgeron, Choice

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    October 2019
    Paperback
    9781316506981
    310 pages
    245 × 175 × 17 mm
    0.56kg
    2 b/w illus. 1 table
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    Contents

    Table of Contents

    • List of contributors
    • Introduction: the enduring significance of Jackson's knowledge argument Sam Coleman
    • 1. The knowledge argument is an argument about knowledge Tim Crane
    • 2. There's nothing about Mary David Rosenthal
    • 3. Acquaintance, parsimony, and epiphenomenalism Brie Gertler
    • 4. Acquaintance and phenomenal concepts David Pitt
    • 5. The knowledge argument meets representationalism about colour experience Frank Jackson
    • 6. The Mary-go-round Galen Strawson
    • 7. Conceptual mastery, social externalism, and Mary's new knowledge Torin Alter
    • 8. Mary's powers of imagination Amy Kind
    • 9. The knowledge argument is either indefensible or redundant Tom McClelland
    • 10. Grounding, analysis and Russellian Monism Philip Goff
    • 11. Phenomenal knowledge why: the explanatory knowledge argument against physicalism Hedda Hassel Mørch
    • 12. The knowledge argument and the self Robert J. Howell
    • 13. What uninformed Mary can teach us Michael Tye
    • Bibliography
    • Index.
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    • Sam Coleman, Tim Crane, David Rosenthal, Brie Gertler, David Pitt, Frank Jackson, Galen Strawson, Torin Alter, Amy Kind, Tom McClelland, Philip Goff, Hedda Hassel Mørch, Robert J. Howell, Michael Tye

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    • Sam Coleman , University of Hertfordshire

      Sam Coleman is Reader in Philosophy at the University of Hertfordshire and is the author of various articles on philosophy of mind.

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