By applying Brie Gertler’s argument for Dualism through the distinction between pain and C-fibre stimulation, Renee Descartes’ argument for the existence of res cogitans and un-measurable substances, and Frank Jackson’s proving of the incompleteness of Physicalism, I intend to prove that Dualism exists. The key claim among
“Epiphenomenal Qualia,” Frank Jackson makes an argument in favor of qualia and against physicalism. Qualia are internal components of the senses that are a result of phenomena stimulating the senses with no purely physical information. Physicalism, on the other hand, argues that the physical world can account for everything humans experience. Jackson argues in favor of qualia thereby rejecting the idea that the physical world can explain everything. But Jackson’s argument does not successfully negate
The story of Frank Jackson's Mary is a philosophical thought experiment proposed by Jackson in his article "What Mary Didn't Know" .The argument is intended to motivate what is often called the "Knowledge Argument" against physicalism. Mary is confined to a black and white room, educated through black and white books and lectures shown on black and white television. According to the theory of physicalism, Mary knows everything there is to know about the physical nature of the world. This means that
Frank Jackson’s proposed a philosophical theory about physicalism, which had lead to many discussions debating whether physicalism is true or false. In “The Journal of Philosophy”, Jackson described physicalism with an example of Mary in a black-and-white room where she was being educated through lectures in black-and-white television, along with black-and-white books. She learnt every physical fact there is in our environment and physical natures, but not all. When she left the room, given a colored
'Can non reductive physicalism solve the problem of mental causation?' Mental causation is one of the most discussed topics in the contemporary philosophy of mind. The question roughly goes as follows: how it is possible that a mental agent or event produces a change in the series of physical events? It just becomes more mysterious if we take into account that the physical world is looked upon by many as a closed and self-determined world which contains nothing like irreducible mental properties