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2007 Lecture 4: Phenomenal and epistemic indistinguishability

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John Locke Lectures in Philosophy
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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.

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John Locke Lectures in Philosophy
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Robert Stalnaker
Keywords
philosophy
john locke
Faculty of Philosophy
oxford
John Locke Lectures
Philosophy Lecture Series
Department: Faculty of Philosophy
Date Added: 10/07/2008
Duration: 00:55:00

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