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100 1 _aNagasawa, Yujin.
245 1 0 _aGod and phenomenal consciousness : A Novel Approach to Knowledge Arguments
260 _aCambridge ;
_aNew York :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2008.
300 _axiii, 162 p. ;
505 0 _aThe 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 -- CastaƱeda'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.
650 0 _aConsciousness.
650 0 _aKnowledge, Theory of.
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