PHIL 2501 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Qualia, Epiphenomenalism
12 Apr 2016
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?, pay atenion to the two last secions especially! Qualia (def: mental experience associated with physical phenomena): they are epiphenomenal: Can not cause the physical: could cause other qualia, physical could cause qualia though. 2 important parts to jackson"s argument: 1. In lewis"s paper, he talks about what experience gives you: says: no crazy scieniic knowledge in the world will give you what experience gives you, what does experience teach, remember diferent types of knowledge: Jackson: this is what mary learnt: knowledge that seeing red looks like this. Most commonly used when we know a living being. Ex: x knows y, and i know x. He says: oten, these kinds of knowledge come packaged together. Ex: learning how to ride a bike: dad says: try not to fall of (that, acquainted with the feeling of the bike (acquaintance, then you learn how to use it (how) In the ordinary experience, that is why its easy to confuse them.
