God and Phenomenal Consciousness

In God and Phenomenal Consciousness, Yujin Nagasawa bridges debates in two distinct areas of philosophy: the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of religion. He proposes novel objections to Thomas Nagel's and Frank Jackson's well-known 'knowledge arguments' against the physicalist approach to phenomenal consciousness by utilizing his own objections to arguments against the existence of God. From the failure of these arguments, Nagasawa derives a unique metaphysical thesis, 'nontheoretical physicalism, ' according to which although this world is entirely physical, there are physical facts that cannot be captured even by complete theories of the physical sciences.

Author: Yujin Nagasawa
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 02/18/2008
Pages: 178
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 9.13h x 6.31w x 0.66d
ISBN: 9780521879668