The Knowledge Argument

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
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 09/19/2019
Pages: 308
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 9.83h x 7.12w x 0.81d
ISBN: 9781107141995

Review Citation(s):
Choice 06/01/2020

About the Author
Coleman, Sam: - Sam Coleman is Reader in Philosophy at the University of Hertfordshire and is the author of various articles on philosophy of mind.