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God and phenomenal consciousness : a novel approach to knowledge arguments / Yujin Nagasawa.

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Van Pelt Library B808.9 .N34 2008
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Format:
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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