PHIL 150A1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Color Vision, Foundationalism, Infinitism
5 Oct 2016
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Nu = nature is uniform: all inductive arguments assume nature is uniform. 2: we can know nu only by experience, arguments from experience for nu are circular, the assumption that nu is unjustified, all inductive arguments rest on an unjustified assumption. Attention control of behavior difference between being awake vs. being asleep mental/internal states reading environmental stimuli. Facts about experience no one can endure or completely understand anyone else"s experiences. Mary is a scientist who is locked in a room with only a black and white television: mary knows all the physical facts of human color vision before her release. Physics, neuroscience-electro-chemical functioning of the brain, the physiology of vision: after her release mary learns a new fact about color vision, there are non physical facts about color vision. Psychological continuity view on personal identity person-stage : stretch of consciousness. Infinitism a belief can be justified by an infinite chain of justified beliefs.
