PHIL 100 Lecture Notes - Physicalism
17 Sep 2013
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In what mary didn"t know frank jackson takes a more forceful stance against physicalism. Jackson presents an argument for the conclusion that physicalism is false. His argument has come to be known as the knowledge argument. Mary doesn"t know when she is in the black-and-white room. 3. therefore, it is not the case that physicalism is true. In the black-and-white room mary has learned all of the physical facts about the world. But according to physicalism the only facts about the world that there are are physical facts. So if physicalism is true, mary knows all of the facts about the world that there are. But if she learns something when she leaves the black-and-white room then there must have been a fact about the world that she didn"t know when she was in the black-and-white room. Responding to the knowledge argument: deny first premise.
