The Knowledge Argument (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781107141995)

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.

Author: Sam Coleman
ISBN-10: 1107141990
ISBN-13: 9781107141995
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/19/2019
Pages: 308
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.83h x 7.12w x 0.81d

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Choice 06/01/2020