Mary's room thought experiment
GPTKB entity
Statements (33)
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| gptkbp:instanceOf |
gptkb:philosophy
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| gptkbp:address |
consciousness
knowledge argument qualia |
| gptkbp:alsoKnownAs |
Mary the super-scientist
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| gptkbp:category |
arguments against physicalism
thought experiments in philosophy |
| gptkbp:criticizedFor |
gptkb:Daniel_Dennett
gptkb:David_Lewis |
| gptkbp:debatedBy |
philosophy journals
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| gptkbp:field |
philosophy of mind
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| https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label |
Mary's room thought experiment
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| gptkbp:influenced |
debates on materialism
debates on the explanatory gap |
| gptkbp:influencedBy |
gptkb:Thomas_Nagel's_'What_is_it_like_to_be_a_bat?'
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| gptkbp:mainCharacter |
gptkb:Mary
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| gptkbp:proposedBy |
gptkb:Frank_Jackson
1982 |
| gptkbp:publishedIn |
gptkb:'Epiphenomenal_Qualia'_(article)
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| gptkbp:referencedIn |
'Philosophical Quarterly'
'Philosophical Studies' 'The Journal of Philosophy' |
| gptkbp:relatedConcept |
knowledge by acquaintance
epiphenomenalism phenomenal consciousness |
| gptkbp:scene |
Mary is a scientist who knows all physical facts about color vision but has never experienced color
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| gptkbp:type |
Does Mary learn something new when she experiences color for the first time?
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| gptkbp:usedToArgue |
existence of non-physical knowledge
physicalism is incomplete |
| gptkbp:bfsParent |
gptkb:Ten_Problems_of_Consciousness
gptkb:Epiphenomenal_Qualia_(1982) gptkb:Reductive_physicalism |
| gptkbp:bfsLayer |
6
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