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Frontiers of Philosophy in China

ISSN 1673-3436

ISSN 1673-355X(Online)

CN 11-5743/B

邮发代号 80-983

Frontiers of Philosophy in China  2012, Vol. 7 Issue (2): 304-316   https://doi.org/10.3868/s030-001-012-0018-4
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The Knowledge Argument against Physicalism: Its Proponents and Its Opponents
The Knowledge Argument against Physicalism: Its Proponents and Its Opponents
ZHAO Yanyan()
Department of Philosophy, Fujian Academy of Social Sciences, Fuzhou 350001, China
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Abstract

The knowledge argument usually takes the form of a thought experiment where the subject, having some psychological deficiency, lacks any introspective data to derive the knowledge of her experience. Most defenders of the knowledge argument see the argument as both a support of dualism and an objection to any full-blooded form of physicalism. However, this paper argues that the knowledge argument against physicalism may be directed, in an exactly parallel form, against reductive dualism; moreover, although most physicalists who are the opponents of the knowledge argument do not give any convincing response to the knowledge argument, some kinds of physicalism can live with the knowledge argument.

Key wordsknowledge argument    physicalism    dualism
出版日期: 2012-06-05
Corresponding Author(s): ZHAO Yanyan,Email:zyy.fj@live.cn   
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. The Knowledge Argument against Physicalism: Its Proponents and Its Opponents[J]. Frontiers of Philosophy in China, 2012, 7(2): 304-316.
ZHAO Yanyan. The Knowledge Argument against Physicalism: Its Proponents and Its Opponents. Front Phil Chin, 2012, 7(2): 304-316.
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