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Subjective Physicalism And The Knowledge Arguement

Posted on:2017-04-27Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Z L CaiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2295330488486324Subject:Foreign philosophy
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Physicalism claimed that all that is physical,therefore,anything could be explained a nd described by physics.However,it evidently goes against human’s two intuition knowle dge,for the living experience possesses a subjective phonomenlogy feature which is not p hysical and appears some aspects that could not be described by the objective science.So there come up with some anti-physicalism arguments on the issue of Qualia which mainl y concluded such arguments as knowledge argument by Jackson,what is it like to be a bat by Negel,zombie argument by Charlmers or conceivable argument.Those arguments foe us on different aspects,but they all admitted that there existed explanatory Gap in cogniti on.Knowledge argument and Bat argument mainly deduct from the epistemological aspec ts that,even if we had all the physical knowledge,we could not Mary’s subjective feeling when she experienced Red,and even if we possessed the complete physical knowledge ab out the bat,we could not know what is it like to be a bat as well.After that, they thought th at the explanatory Gap in epistomogy necessarily implicate the Gap in ontology,and they drew the anti-physicalism conclusion.For the challenge from knowledge argument,those philosophers who hold phylism mainly responsed from the aspects of ontology and consi dered the Qualia to be identified or reducted to the physical features or phenomena.Quali a to be appearing is grounded for Mary’s ignorant to the identification between physical k nowledge and phenomenogical knowledge.But,Howell thought that if Mary gets all the o bjective knowledge about the world and if objective knowledge equals to all knowledge,t hen how is it possible that there exists some identification knowledge she didn’t grasp?Fo r this knowledge of what is it like,there must be a second way of knowing,like phenomen al concept strategy of phenomenological knowledge theory, indexical argument,ability R esponse,Acquaintance theory,original ignorance, which all involved two ways of knowin g, whose difference is the second way of knowing Mary uses when she steps out of room. At last,Howell take those response to the knowledge argument as the note for his Acquia ntance theory,which could be ascribed to such an Acquiantance theory that when one get s special experience,he would possess empirical accomplishment.Therefore,only if we se parate strictly between metaphycis and epistemology and hold on two ways of knowing, we could not deduct subjective Qualia for the objective knowledge about the world,whic h essentially does not harm to the metaphysical necessity emphasized by the physicalism. What he called it subjective physicalism not only fit for physicalism’s premise,but explai n different queries to physicalism by different typical knowledge argument reasonable,In addation,which also solve body-mind problem under the premise of casual closure.Howe ver,although subjective physicalism hold on strong explanatory power,which solve such queries to physicalism by those knowledge argument by the way of limiting into the epist emology,he limits human’s cognitive ability that we are limited with some specific cognit ive structure.So,there must be some physical features we could not know,to which we co uld only possess a mysterious experience.Akk that we could to say about this experience i s just what is it like,in which there does not exist an intersubjectivity language.But,it is th e mystery that are rejected by the naturalization nowadays.
Keywords/Search Tags:Qualia, Objectivism, Knowledge argument, Subjective physicalism
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