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2007 Lecture 3: Locating ourselves in the world

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John Locke Lectures in Philosophy
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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.
I think this is a promising analogy, but I will argue that before we apply it, we need to get clearer about the contents of self-locating belief and knowledge.

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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.
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2007 Lecture 4: Phenomenal and epistemic indistinguishability

The fourth lecture will begin with a variation on the thought experiment about Mary that is the focus of the knowledge argument, using it to develop the analogy between self-locating knowledge and knowledge of phenomenal experience.
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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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