Overview
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.
- | Author: Yujin Nagasawa
- | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- | Publication Date: Feb 18, 2008
- | Number of Pages: 178 pages
- | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
- | ISBN-10: 0521879663
- | ISBN-13: 9780521879668
