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The Cognitive Significance of Phenomenal Knowledge

Philosophical Studies, 2015
Knowledge of what it’s like to have perceptual experiences, e.g. of what it’s like to see red or taste Turkish coffee, is phenomenal knowledge; and it is knowledge the substantial or significant nature of which is widely assumed to pose a challenge for physicalism. Call this the New Challenge to physicalism.
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Dissolving the Explanatory Gap: Neurobiological Differences Between Phenomenal and Propositional Knowledge

Brain and Mind, 2002
The explanatory gap and theknowledge argument are rooted in the conflationof propositional and phenomenal knowledge. Thebasic knowledge argument is based on theconsideration that ``physical information'' aboutthe nervous system is unable to provide theknowledge of a ``color experience'' (Jackson,1982).
José M Musacchio
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The Knowledge Argument and the Implications of Phenomenal Knowledge

Philosophy Compass, 2011
Abstract This article presents the knowledge argument against physicalism and objections to it. The focus is on the ways responses to that argument have tried to account for phenomenal knowledge within a physicalist picture. Various ‘phenomenal concepts’ strategies are considered, along with recent arguments against them.
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Qualia and Phenomenal Concepts as Basis of the Knowledge Argument

Acta Analytica, 2004
The central attempt of this paper is to explain the underlying intuitions of Frank Jackson’s “Knowledge Argument” that the epistemic gap between phenomenal knowledge and physical knowledge points towards a corresponding ontological gap. The first step of my analysis is the claim that qualia are epistemically special because the acquisition of the ...
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Phenomenal Knowledge

Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 1994
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Phenomenal Concepts and Phenomenal Knowledge

2007
Abstract What is the nature of consciousness? How is consciousness related to brain processes? This book discusses these topics. All chapters focus on consciousness in the “phenomenal” sense: looking at what it's like to have an experience. Consciousness has long been regarded as the biggest stumbling block for physicalism, the view that
Torin Alter, Sven Walter
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Non-Propositional Phenomenal Knowledge

2023
Abstract This chapter addresses the objection to the knowledge argument that, upon release, Mary gains only non-informational knowledge. Two versions of that objection have been developed. According to Lewis and Nemirow, when released Mary gains only non-informational ability knowledge.
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