God and Phenomenal Consciousness
Author | : Yujin Nagasawa |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012-10-04 |
ISBN-10 | : 1107407869 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781107407862 |
Rating | : 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: 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.