God and Phenomenal Consciousness: A Novel Approach to Knowledge Arguments

ISBN-13: 9781107407862 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 178 str.

Yujin Nagasawa

Opis

In God and Phenomenal Consciousness, Yujin Nagasawa bridges debates in two distinct areas of philosophy: the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of religion. He proposes novel objections to Thomas Nagel's and Frank Jackson's well-known 'knowledge arguments' against the physicalist approach to phenomenal consciousness by utilizing his own objections to arguments against the existence of God. From the failure of these arguments, Nagasawa derives a unique metaphysical thesis, 'nontheoretical physicalism, ' according to which although this world is entirely physical, there are physical facts that cannot be captured even by complete theories of the physical sciences.