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There's Something About Mary

Essays on Phenomenal Consciousness and Frank Jackson's Knowledge Argument

By: Peter Ludlow

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In Frank Jackson's famous thought experiment, Mary is confined to a black-and-white room and educated through black-and-white books and lectures on a black-and-white television. In this way, she learns everything there is to know about the physical world. If physicalism -- the doctrine that everything is physical -- is true, then Mary seems to know all there is to know. What happens, then, when she emerges from her black-and-white room and sees the color red for the first time? Jackson's knowledge argument says that Mary comes to know a new fact about color, and that, therefore, physicalism is false. The knowledge argument remains one of the most controversial and important arguments in contemporary philosophy.There's Something About Mary -- the first book devoted solely to the argument -- collects the main essays in which Jackson presents (and later rejects) his argument along with key responses by other philosophers. These responses are organized around a series of questions: Does Mary learn anything new? Does she gain only know-how (the ability hypothesis), or merely get acquainted with something she knew previously (the acquaintance hypothesis)? Does she learn a genuinely new fact or an old fact in disguise? And finally, does she really know all the physical facts before her release, or is this a "misdescription"? The arguments presented in this comprehensive collection have important implications for the philosophy of mind and the study of consciousness.

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Non-Fiction Philosophy Philosophy of The Mind Psychology Cognition & Cognitive Psychology Psychological Theory, Systems, Schools of Thought & Viewpoints Cognitivism, Cognitive Theory States of Consciousness Drug-Induced States Humanities

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Sources	p. xi
Contributors	p. xiii
Foreword: Looking Back on the Knowledge Argument	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
Black-and-White Mary
Epiphenomenal Qualia	p. 39
What Mary Didn't Know	p. 51
Does She Learn Anything?
"Epiphenomenal" Qualia?	p. 59
Dennett on the Knowledge Argument	p. 69
The Ability Hypothesis
What Experience Teaches	p. 77
Motion Blindness and the Knowledge Argument	p. 105
Knowing What It Is Like: The Ability Hypothesis and the Knowledge Argument	p. 143
The Acquaintance Hypothesis
Knowing Qualia: A Reply to Jackson (with Postscript: 1997)	p. 163
Acquaintance with Qualia	p. 179
Phenomenal Knowledge	p. 197
Old Facts, New Modes
Phenomenal States (Revised Version)	p. 219
What Mary Couldn't Know: Belief about Phenomenal States	p. 241
Phenomenal Concepts and the Knowledge Argument	p. 269
Did She Know Everything Physical?
Jackson on Physical Information and Qualia	p. 301
Two Conceptions of the Physical	p. 309
Inexpressible Truths and the Allure of the Knowledge Argument	p. 333
So Many Ways of Saying No to Mary	p. 365
Postscripts
Postscript	p. 409
Postscript on Qualia	p. 417
Mind and Illusion	p. 421
Supplemental Bibliography	p. 443
Index	p. 457
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