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2007 Lecture 2: Epistemic possibilities and the knowledge argument

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John Locke Lectures in Philosophy
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The second lecture will begin with Frank Jackson's knowledge argument. The argument and the responses to it turn on assumptions about the nature of the contents of belief and the objects of knowledge.
I will argue that one cannot escape the anti-materialist conclusion of the knowledge argument by adopting a fine-grained conception of content.

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Our topic is a subject's knowledge of his own phenomenal experience and of the content of his thought, but I will approach the topic from the outside, treating the subject as an object in the world.
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One strategy for responding to the knowledge argument exploits an analogy between knowledge of phenomenal experience and essentially indexical or self-locating knowledge.
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Series
John Locke Lectures in Philosophy
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Robert Stalnaker
Keywords
philosophy
john locke
Faculty of Philosophy
oxford
John Locke Lectures
Philosophy Lecture Series
Department: Faculty of Philosophy
Date Added: 10/07/2008
Duration: 01:02:00

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