God and Phenomenal Consciousness

Nagasawa, Yujin

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Author
Nagasawa, Yujin
Publish Date
02/18/2008
Book Type
Hardcover
Publisher Name
CAMBRUP
Subtitle
A Novel Approach to Knowledge Arguments
Number of Pages
178
Edition
1
ISBN-10
0521879663
ISBN-13
9780521879668
SKU
9780521879668

Description

In God and Phenomenal Consciousness, Yujin Nagasawa bridges debates in two distinct areas of philosophy: the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of religion. He proposes novel objections to Thomas Nagel's and Frank Jackson's well-known 'knowledge arguments' against the physicalist approach to phenomenal consciousness by utilizing his own objections to arguments against the existence of God. From the failure of these arguments, Nagasawa derives a unique metaphysical thesis, 'nontheoretical physicalism,' according to which although this world is entirely physical, there are physical facts that cannot be captured even by complete theories of the physical sciences.