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- Type of Document: M.Sc. Thesis
- Language: Farsi
- Document No: 45855 (42)
- University: Sharif University of Technology
- Department: Philosophy of Science
- Advisor(s): Sheykh Rezaee, Hossein
- Abstract:
- Frank Jackson’s knowledge argument is presented to show the falsity of physicalism. The argument is based on a famous thought experiment according which, Mary, a genius scientist who has spent her whole life investigating the neurophysiology of vision in a black-and-white environment, in spite of acquiring complete physical knowledge in that field, knows nothing about the phenomenological properties of seeing red. The knowledge argument has three main steps: proofing the existence of an epistemic gap, inferring an ontological gap from the epistemic gap and inferring the falsity of physicalism from the ontological gap. Different criticisms are made of each step. One of the criticisms of the first step is Jackson’s own criticism. Defending strong representationalism about perceptional states, Jackson claims that Mary, while in the black-and-white room, can know what it is like to have different conscious experiences.After introducing the knowledge argument in the first chapter and reviewing different criticisms in the second chapter, in the third chapter I try to show that the advocate of the knowledge argument can respond Jackson’s criticism, even if she accepts strong representationalism about perceptual states
- Keywords:
- Physicalism ; Knowledge Argument ; Phenomenological Property ; Epistemic Gap ; Ontological Gap
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