There's Something About Mary: Essays on Phenomenal Consciousness and Frank Jackson's Knowledge Argument...

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Peter Ludlow Yujin Nagasawa (University of Birmingham)

There's Something About Mary

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Essays on Phenomenal Consciousness and Frank Jackson's Knowledge Argument

Peter Ludlow, Yujin Nagasawa (University of Birmingham), Daniel Stoljar (The Australian National University) , Frank Jackson

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Bradford Books
19 November 2004

Philosophy of mind

Series: There's Something About Mary

In Frank Jackson's famous thought experiment, Mary is confined to a black-and-white room and educated through black-and-white books and lectures on a black-and-white television. In this way, she learns everything there is to know about the physical world. If physicalism-the doctrine that everything is physical-is true, then Mary seems to know all there is to know. What happens, then, when she emerges from her black-and-white room and sees the color red for the first time? Jackson's knowledge argument says that Mary comes to know a new fact about color, and that, therefore, physicalism is false. The knowledge argument remains one of the most controversial and important arguments in contemporary philosophy.

There's Something About Mary-the first book devoted solely to the argument-collects the main essays in which Jackson presents (and later rejects) his argument along with key responses by other philosophers. These responses are organized around a series of questions- Does Mary learn anything new? Does she gain only know-how (the ability hypothesis), or merely get acquainted with something she knew previously (the acquaintance hypothesis)? Does she learn a genuinely new fact or an old fact in disguise? And finally, does she really know all the physical facts before her release, or is this a ""misdescription""? The arguments presented in this comprehensive collection have important implications for the philosophy of mind and the study of consciousness.

Foreword by: Frank Jackson
Edited by: Peter Ludlow, Yujin Nagasawa (University of Birmingham), Daniel Stoljar (The Australian National University)
Imprint: Bradford Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 658g
ISBN: 9780262621892
ISBN 10: 0262621894
Series: There's Something About Mary
Pages: 484
Publication Date: 19 November 2004
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Peter Ludlow, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, is the author of Semantics, Tense, and Time- An Essay in the Metaphysics of Natural Language (MIT Press, 1999), among other books, and the editor of Crypto Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias (MIT Press, 2001) and High Noon on the Electronic Frontier (MIT Press, 1996). Yujin Nagasawa is Research Fellow at the Australian National University and Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Alberta. Daniel Stoljar is Professor of Philosophy at Australian National University.