The Knowledge Argument against Physicalism： Its Proponents and Its Opponents  

作　　者：ZHAO Yanyan 

机构地区：[1]Department of Philosophy,Fujian Academy of Social Sciences,Fuzhou 350001,China

出　　处：《Frontiers of Philosophy in China》2012年第2期304-316,共13页中国哲学前沿（英文版）

摘　　要：The knowledge argument usually takes the form of a thought experiment where the subject, having some psychological deficiency, lacks any introspective data to derive the knowledge of her experience. Most defenders of the knowledge argument see the argument as both a support of dualism and an objection to any full-blooded form of physicalism. However, this paper argues that the knowledge argument against physicalism may be directed, in an exactly parallel form, against reductive dualism; moreover, although most physicalists who are the opponents of the knowledge argument do not give any convincing response to the knowledge argument, some kinds ofphysicalism can live with the knowledge argument.The knowledge argument usually takes the form of a thought experiment where the subject, having some psychological deficiency, lacks any introspective data to derive the knowledge of her experience. Most defenders of the knowledge argument see the argument as both a support of dualism and an objection to any full-blooded form of physicalism. However, this paper argues that the knowledge argument against physicalism may be directed, in an exactly parallel form, against reductive dualism; moreover, although most physicalists who are the opponents of the knowledge argument do not give any convincing response to the knowledge argument, some kinds ofphysicalism can live with the knowledge argument.

关 键 词：knowledge argument PHYSICALISM DUALISM 

分 类 号：O4[理学—物理] N02[自然科学总论—科学技术哲学]