Knowledge, Possibility, and Consciousness
Content:
1 Experience and Neo-Dualism
1.1 The Experience Gap Argument
1.2 The Dialectic of Identity
1.3 The Zombie Argument
1.4 The Knowledge Argument
1.5 The Modal Argument
1.6 The Plan
2 Sentience and Thought
2.1 Antecedent Physicalism
2.2 Physicalism and Materialism
2.3 Common Sense about the Mind
2.4 The Metaphysics of Mental States
3 Thoughts about Sensations
3.1 Having and Knowing
3.2 The Epistemology of Experience
3.3 Mental States as Physical States
3.4 Doctrines Physicalism Must Avoid
4 The Zombie Argument
4.1 Why Zombies Could Not Be Physically Like Us
4.2 Dualism and Epiphenomenalism
4.3 Supervenience and Epiphenomenalism
4.4 The Inverted Spectrum
5 The Knowledge Argument
5.1 Mary and the Black and White Room
5.2 Locating the Problem
5.3 Raising Suspicions
5.4 The Subject Matter Assumption
6 Recognition and Identification
6.1 A Case of Recognition
6.2 Reflexive Contents
6.3 The Search for Recognitional Knowledge
6.4 Information Games
6.5 Recognizing Universals
6.6 Recognition and Necessary Truth
7 What Mary Learned
7.1 Mary’s New Knowledge
7.2 What Mary Remembers
7.3 Recognitional Knowledge and Know-How
7.4 Lewis and Eliminating Possibilities
7.5 Churchland’s Challenge
8 The Modal Argument
8.1 Contents and Possibilities
8.2 Kripke’s Argument
8.3 Chalmers’ Argument
8.4 Ewing’s Intuition
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