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God and phenomenal consciousness : a novel approach to knowledge arguments / Yujin Nagasawa.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nagasawa, Yujin.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Consciousness.
- Knowledge, Theory of.
- Jackson, Frank, 1943-.
- Jackson, Frank.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 162 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
- Contents:
- The structure of knowledge arguments
- The structure of knowledge arguments
- Jackson's Mary argument
- Nagel's bat argument
- Defining a knowledge argument
- The argument from concept possession
- Grim's argument from knowledge de se
- Why they are knowledge arguments
- Nontheoretical physicalism
- Knowledge arguments in the philosophy of religion
- Castañeda's and Abbruzzese's objections to the argument from knowledge de se
- First principle : divine omniscience and epistemic powers
- Second principle : divine omnipotence and necessary impossibilities
- Applying the principles
- Possible objections
- Aplication of my strategy
- The argument from concept possession (1)
- Historical background
- The structure of the argument from concept possession
- Objections to (1)
- Objections to (2)
- Objections to (3)
- Objections to (4)
- The argument from concept possession (2)
- A new objection to (4)
- Amending (4)
- Objections to the new argument
- Knowledge arguments in the philosophy of mind
- Argument 1
- Objections to argument 1
- Argument 2
- The thomistic principle
- The revised thomistic principle
- Thomas vs. Thomas : applying the revised thomistic principle
- Jackson's Mary argument (1)
- The Mary argument against physicalism
- The parity of reasons objection
- The Mary argument against dualism
- Replies from dualists
- Reductive dualism and non-reductive dualism
- Application of the parity of reasons objection : Chalmers' panprotopsychism
- Jackson's Mary argument (2)
- The Mary argument again
- The argument from concept possession again
- The structural similarity between the mary argument and the argument from concept possession
- The crucial dissimilarity between the mary argument and the argument from concept possession
- Mary's ignorance
- Knowing the fundamental features of physical entities and properties
- Knowledge arguments and nontheoretical physicalism
- Plausibility of (i)
- Pausibility of (ii)
- Pausibility of (iii)
- Nontheoretical physicalism and the mystery of phenomenal consciousness
- Nontheoretical physicalism and the existence of God
- Knowledge arguments and measuring the size of omniscience.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-158) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780521879668
- 0521879663
- OCLC:
- 162118853
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- Publisher description
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