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  title info:
    title: Knowledge, possibility, and consciousness
  title info:
    title: CogNet library
  name:
    name part: Perry, John
    name part: 1943-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    place:
      place term: Cambridge, Mass
    publisher: MIT Press
    date issued: ©2001
    date issued: 2001
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xvi, 221 pages).
  abstract: Physicalism is the idea that if everything that goes on in the universe is physical, our consciousness and feelings must also be physical. Ever since Descartes formulated the mind-body problem, a long line of philosophers has found the physicalist view to be preposterous. According to John Perry, the history of the mind-body problem is, in part, the slow victory of physical monism over various forms of dualism. Each new version of dualism claims that surely something more is going on with us than the merely physical.In this book Perry defends a view that he calls antecedent physicalism. He takes on each of three major arguments against physicalism, showing that they pose no threat to antecedent physicalism. These arguments are the zombie argument (that there is a possible world inhabited by beings that are physically indiscernible from us but not conscious), the knowledge argument (that we can know facts about our own feelings that are not just physical facts, thereby proving physicalism false), and the modal argument (that the identity of sensation and brain state is contingent, but since there is no such thing as contingent identity, sensations are not brain states).
  note: John Perry.
  subject:
    topic: Knowledge, Theory of
  subject:
    topic: COGNITIVE SCIENCES/General
  subject:
    topic: PHILOSOPHY/Philosophy of Mind/General
  classification: BD161 .P43 2001eb
  classification: 128/.2
  identifier: 9780262281416
  identifier: 0262281414
  identifier: 0262661357
  identifier: 9780262661355
  identifier: 0262161990
  identifier: 9780262161992
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: OCoLC-P
    record creation date: 050325
    record change date: 20221121162444.0
    record identifier: in00004601310
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng