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    <title>God and phenomenal consciousness : A Novel Approach to Knowledge Arguments</title>
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    <namePart>Nagasawa, Yujin.</namePart>
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    <publisher>Cambridge University Press</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2008</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>xiii, 162 p. ;</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>The structure of knowledge arguments -- The structure of knowledge arguments -- Jackson's Mary argument -- Nagel's bat argument -- Defining a knowledge argument -- The argument from concept possession -- Grim's argument from knowledge de se -- Why they are knowledge arguments -- Nontheoretical physicalism -- Knowledge arguments in the philosophy of religion -- Grim's argument from knowledge de se -- Castañeda's and Abbruzzese's objections to the argument from knowledge de se -- First principle : divine omniscience and epistemic powers -- Second principle : divine omnipotence and necessary impossibilities -- Applying the principles -- Possible objections -- Aplication of my strategy -- The argument from concept possession (1) -- Historical background -- The structure of the argument from concept possession -- Objections to (1) -- Objections to (2) -- Objections to (3) -- Objections to (4) -- The argument from concept possession (2) -- A new objection to (4) -- Amending (4) -- Objections to the new argument -- Knowledge arguments in the philosophy of mind -- Nagel's bat argument -- Argument 1 -- Objections to argument 1 -- Argument 2 -- The thomistic principle -- The revised thomistic principle -- Thomas vs. Thomas : applying the revised thomistic principle -- Possible objections -- Jackson's Mary argument (1) -- The Mary argument against physicalism -- The parity of reasons objection -- The Mary argument against dualism -- Replies from dualists --  Reductive dualism and non-reductive dualism -- Application of the parity of reasons objection : Chalmers' panprotopsychism -- Jackson's Mary argument (2) -- The Mary argument again -- The argument from concept possession again -- The structural similarity between the mary argument and the argument from -- Concept possession -- The crucial dissimilarity between the mary argument and the argument from -- Concept possession -- Mary's ignorance -- Knowing the fundamental features of physical entities and properties -- Knowledge arguments and nontheoretical physicalism -- Knowledge arguments and nontheoretical physicalism -- Plausibility of (i) -- Pausibility of (ii) -- Pausibility of (iii) --  Nontheoretical physicalism and the mystery of phenomenal consciousness --  Nontheoretical physicalism and the existence of God -- Knowledge arguments and measuring the size of omniscience.</tableOfContents>
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    <topic>Consciousness</topic>
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    <topic>Knowledge, Theory of</topic>
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  <classification authority="ddc">212 NAG</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">9780521879668 (hardback)</identifier>
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