The Knowledge Argument - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1316506983 ISBN 13 : 9781316506981

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2019

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

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

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1316506983
• ISBN 13: 9781316506981
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 312
• Éditeur: Coleman Sam
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