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Phenomenal Knowledge Without Experience [PDF]

, 2008
Abstract This chapter defends the premise that Mary gains knowledge when released from the black-and-white room from an objection presented by Dennett and Mandik. They argue that the intuition driving that premise derives from the mistaken assumption that knowing what it is like to see in color requires having color experiences. But that
Torin Andrew Alter
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Defining a Relation between Phenomenal Knowledge and Physical Knowledge [PDF]

حکمت و فلسفه
What is the relation between phenomenal concepts and physical concepts? In this paper, I try to propose an answer to this question with regard to the Knowledge Argument and Mary Thought Experiment.
Masoud Ghafari
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Phenomenal Knowledge without Phenomenal Concepts? On Jesse Prinz’ Theory of Mental Pointers [PDF]

Revista Argentina de Ciencias del Comportamiento, 2011
The aim of the present paper is to present and criticize the reply of Jesse Prinz (2007) to the “knowledge argument” proposed by Jackson (1982). Prinz’ proposal relies on two tenets: in the first place, it is supported by an original neurocognitive ...
Barberis, Sergio Daniel
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Concurring Emotions, Affective Empathy, and Phenomenal Understanding

Passion, 2023
According to an optimistic view, affective empathy is a route to knowledge of what it is like to be in the target person’s state (“phenomenal knowledge”).
Christiana Werner
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Qualities, subjectivity and spatial extension: is there a common factor? [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology
According to the Extended Information Theory, conscious vision allows us to know how objects extend into the space they belong to. In this way, consciousness compensates for some of the limitations of Neuro-Computational systems, which handle Point-Like ...
Bruno Forti
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Phenomenal Knowledge and Phenomenal Causality

Nous
Abstract There has been extensive debate over whether we can have phenomenal knowledge in the case of epiphenomenalism. This article aims to bring that debate to a close. I first develop a refined causal account of knowledge—one that is modest enough to avoid various putative problems, yet sufficiently robust to undermine the ...
Lei Zhong
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Physicalism and the nature of phenomenal concepts [PDF]

Revista de Filosofia, 2010
In recent years, a number of authors have tried to respond to Frank Jackson’s so-called “Knowledge Argument” against physicalism by appealing to phenomenal concepts, that is, concepts under which fall the phenomenal aspect of our experiences, or, to put ...
André Joffily Abath
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Phenomenal Knowledge Why: The Explanatory Knowledge Argument Against Physicalism [PDF]

, 2019
Phenomenal knowledge is knowledge of what it is like to be in conscious states, such as seeing red or being in pain. According to the knowledge argument (Jackson 1982, 1986), phenomenal knowledge is knowledge that, i.e., knowledge of phenomenal facts ...
Mørch, Hedda Hassel
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Phenomenal knowledge, imagination, and hermeneutical injustice [PDF]

In this paper, I analyze the role of phenomenal knowledge in understanding the experiences of the victims of hermeneutical injustice. In particular, I argue that understanding that is enriched by phenomenal knowledge is a powerful tool to mitigate ...
Fürst, Martina
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Representationalism, skepticism and phenomenal realism

Prometeica, 2022
The irreducibility thesis of phenomenal consciousness can only succeed against the sceptical attack and avoid solipsism iff it can coherently establish the transition from subjective certainty to the objectivity of knowledge. The sceptical attack on the
Manas Kumar Sahu
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