Philosophy 2400F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Physicalism, Mental Property, Daniel Dennett
3 Feb 2021
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Physicalism: the indirect case: provided by the arguments for dualism(s) (of both the substance and property variety), the direct case: provided by the arguments that directly target physicalism. The knowledge argument [next zoom meeting: c. hemple"s dilemma [next zoom meeting, plan: as we"ve already sampled some arguments for dualism, let"s consider a-c. In his famous paper what is it like to be a bat? thomas nagel (1974) takes the fact that. [1] bat experience is radically different from our own to support the conclusion that we. The physicalist story leaves out something essential about the nature of experience: non physicalist would also not be able to capture this either. Nagel"s bat argument (one possible reconstruction: 1. It"s like something to be a bat: 2. What it like to be a bat, however, is radically different from what it is like to be a human.
