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Phenomenal Knowledge without Phenomenal Concepts? On Jesse Prinz’ Theory of Mental Pointers
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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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 Alter
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Phenomenal knowledge and phenomenal causality [PDF]
NoûsAbstractThere 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 epiphenomenalist position ...
Lei Zhong
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Phenomenal Knowledge and Martyrdom: Endō’s Silence
Literature and Theology, 2021 Abstract This article examines Endō Shūsaku’s Silence from the perspective of ‘phenomenal knowledge’, which can only be derived from experience. First turning to philosopher Michel Henry’s discussion of phenomenologies of Christ, the article traces Endō’s protagonist Sebastian Rodrigues’ initial failure to access the phenomenology of ...
Nicholas O. Pagan
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THE KNOWLEDGE ARGUMENT AGAINST MATERIALISM AND THE STRATEGY OF PHENOMENAL CONCEPTS
Filosofska dumka (Philosophical Thought), 2023 Materialism/physicalism that generally dominates in the contemporary analytic philosophy is challenged by fairly powerful anti-materialist arguments, notably the zombie argument (most influentially defended by David Chalmers) and the knowledge argument (the most widely discussed version of which was advanced and defended by Frank Jackson).
Dmytro Sepetyi
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Constructing Phenomenal Knowledge in an Unknown Noumenal Reality
Procedia Computer Science, 2015 AbstractIn 1781, Immanuel Kant argued that cognitive agents ignored the underlying structure of their world “as such” (the noumenal reality), and could only know phenomenal reality (the world “as it appears” through their experience). We introduce design principles to implement these theoretical ideas. Our agent's input data is not a direct function of
Georgeon, Olivier L. +2 more
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Critique of the reflexive-referential analysis of phenomenal knowledge
Theoria, Beograd, 2009 The main concern of this paper is John Perry's attempt to analyze phenomenal knowledge in a way that avoids the objection which states that the non-deducibility of this kind of knowledge leads to the ontological conclusion that physicalism must be false. The attempt in question determines the content of phenomenal knowledge with a help of the reflexive-
Miljana Milojević
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Is phenomenal consciousness really a special case in science? [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyIn the metaphysics of science, it is often held that higher-level properties are grounded in micro-physical properties. According to many philosophers, however, phenomenal consciousness resists this view.
Klaus Gärtner +3 more
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Phenomenal KnowledgeWhy: 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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Defining a Relation between Phenomenal Knowledge and Physical Knowledge [PDF]
حکمت و فلسفهWhat 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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