Howard Robinson
From the Knowledge Argument to Mental Substance
Howard Robinson
From the Knowledge Argument to Mental Substance
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This book offers a comprehensive defense of the knowledge argument, arguing that materialism cannot accommodate or explain consciousness.
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This book offers a comprehensive defense of the knowledge argument, arguing that materialism cannot accommodate or explain consciousness.
Produktdetails
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- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Seitenzahl: 286
- Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juni 2017
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
- Gewicht: 418g
- ISBN-13: 9781107455481
- ISBN-10: 1107455480
- Artikelnr.: 48808038
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Seitenzahl: 286
- Erscheinungstermin: 12. Juni 2017
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
- Gewicht: 418g
- ISBN-13: 9781107455481
- ISBN-10: 1107455480
- Artikelnr.: 48808038
Howard Robinson, a native Coloradan, was educated at Brigham Young University and at the State University of New York. He has been a teacher, a market research analyst, a regional sales representative, and a corporate manager. He was an employee of the LDS Church for twenty-seven years in various Regional and Area offices. In connection with these assignments, he and his family spent nearly ten years living overseas in Ecuador, Peru, Mexico and the Philippines. He and his wife, Maryetta, have had four children and (to date) sixteen grandchildren. He continues to live in the city of Jacob Martin.
Part I. The Power of the Knowledge Argument: 1. Introducing the knowledge argument
2. Dennett's denial of Mary's ignorance
3. The abilities hypothesis and other functionalist strategies
4. Why Frank should not have jilted Mary: the inadequacy of representationalism as a strategy against KA
5. The phenomenal concept strategy: more enigma than argument
6. Davidson, non-reductive physicalism and naturalism without physicalism
7. Mysterianism, neutral monism and panpsychism
8. Conclusion: the real power of the knowledge argument - qualia, qualities and our conception of the physical world
Part II. Why Physicalism Entails Epiphenomenalism: 9. Reductionism and the status of the special sciences
10. Vagueness, realism, language and thought
11. Composite objects, the special sciences, conceptualism and realism
12. Why there are (probably) no physical individuals
13. Dennett and the human perspective
Part III. Arguments for Mental Substance: 14. Some current arguments for substance dualism
15. An argument for the existence of mental substance
16. Plotinus, Locke and Hume on the unity of individual substances
Bibliography
Index.
2. Dennett's denial of Mary's ignorance
3. The abilities hypothesis and other functionalist strategies
4. Why Frank should not have jilted Mary: the inadequacy of representationalism as a strategy against KA
5. The phenomenal concept strategy: more enigma than argument
6. Davidson, non-reductive physicalism and naturalism without physicalism
7. Mysterianism, neutral monism and panpsychism
8. Conclusion: the real power of the knowledge argument - qualia, qualities and our conception of the physical world
Part II. Why Physicalism Entails Epiphenomenalism: 9. Reductionism and the status of the special sciences
10. Vagueness, realism, language and thought
11. Composite objects, the special sciences, conceptualism and realism
12. Why there are (probably) no physical individuals
13. Dennett and the human perspective
Part III. Arguments for Mental Substance: 14. Some current arguments for substance dualism
15. An argument for the existence of mental substance
16. Plotinus, Locke and Hume on the unity of individual substances
Bibliography
Index.
Part I. The Power of the Knowledge Argument: 1. Introducing the knowledge argument
2. Dennett's denial of Mary's ignorance
3. The abilities hypothesis and other functionalist strategies
4. Why Frank should not have jilted Mary: the inadequacy of representationalism as a strategy against KA
5. The phenomenal concept strategy: more enigma than argument
6. Davidson, non-reductive physicalism and naturalism without physicalism
7. Mysterianism, neutral monism and panpsychism
8. Conclusion: the real power of the knowledge argument - qualia, qualities and our conception of the physical world
Part II. Why Physicalism Entails Epiphenomenalism: 9. Reductionism and the status of the special sciences
10. Vagueness, realism, language and thought
11. Composite objects, the special sciences, conceptualism and realism
12. Why there are (probably) no physical individuals
13. Dennett and the human perspective
Part III. Arguments for Mental Substance: 14. Some current arguments for substance dualism
15. An argument for the existence of mental substance
16. Plotinus, Locke and Hume on the unity of individual substances
Bibliography
Index.
2. Dennett's denial of Mary's ignorance
3. The abilities hypothesis and other functionalist strategies
4. Why Frank should not have jilted Mary: the inadequacy of representationalism as a strategy against KA
5. The phenomenal concept strategy: more enigma than argument
6. Davidson, non-reductive physicalism and naturalism without physicalism
7. Mysterianism, neutral monism and panpsychism
8. Conclusion: the real power of the knowledge argument - qualia, qualities and our conception of the physical world
Part II. Why Physicalism Entails Epiphenomenalism: 9. Reductionism and the status of the special sciences
10. Vagueness, realism, language and thought
11. Composite objects, the special sciences, conceptualism and realism
12. Why there are (probably) no physical individuals
13. Dennett and the human perspective
Part III. Arguments for Mental Substance: 14. Some current arguments for substance dualism
15. An argument for the existence of mental substance
16. Plotinus, Locke and Hume on the unity of individual substances
Bibliography
Index.