PHIL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Logical Consequence, Materialism, Physicalism
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Mary knows all the physical facts regarding color/color vision. But there are some facts about color/color vision which mary doesn"t know prior. Therefore, there are non-physical facts concerning color/color vision. What the physicalist needs: tell us why doesn"t mary know what it is like to see color if she knows all the physical information, explain what changes about mary, deny that any new fact is learned. Lewis on what it is like: experience is the best teacher. They say that experience is the best teacher, and the classroom is no substitute for real. If you want to know what some new and different experience is like, you can learn it by going out and really having that experience, however thorough your lessons may be. Physicalism: everything that is or could exist is ultimately physical in nature. Minimal materialism: any two possibilities that are just alike physically are just alike- there is no difference without a physical difference.
