2007 Lecture 4: Phenomenal and epistemic indistinguishability

10/07/2008 55 min
2007 Lecture 4: Phenomenal and epistemic indistinguishability

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Episode Synopsis

The fourth lecture will begin with a variation on the thought experiment about Mary that is the focus of the knowledge argument, using it to develop the analogy between self-locating knowledge and knowledge of phenomenal experience. The success of the analogy will turn on the rejection of an assumption that is intuitively plausible, but that I will argue should be rejected.