God and Phenomenal Consciousness: A Novel Approach to Knowledge Arguments (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781107407862)

In God and Phenomenal Consciousness, Yujin Nagasawa bridges debates in two distinct areas of philosophy: the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of religion. He proposes novel objections to Thomas Nagel's and Frank Jackson's well-known 'knowledge arguments' against the physicalist approach to phenomenal consciousness by utilizing his own objections to arguments against the existence of God. From the failure of these arguments, Nagasawa derives a unique metaphysical thesis, 'nontheoretical physicalism, ' according to which although this world is entirely physical, there are physical facts that cannot be captured even by complete theories of the physical sciences.

Author: Yujin Nagasawa
ISBN-10: 1107407869
ISBN-13: 9781107407862
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/04/2012
Pages: 178
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.41d