Quick Revision B4 Test

Question 1

Philosophical zombies formal argument

Answer 1

1) physicalist states that the mental is reducible to the physical
2) therefore, a world which is physically identical to ours must contain consciousness.
3) The world of philosophical zombies is conceivable
4) Therefore, we can conceive of a world which is physically identical to ours which does not contain consciousness.
5) Therefore, physicalist is false.

Question 2

Responses

Answer 2

Dennet - health analogy
Kripke - Water is H2O
Lacewing - What is conceivable is not necessarily metaphysically possible.

Question 3

Responses to Mary’s room

Answer 3

She gains acquaintance knowledge
She gains practical knowledge
She gains new knowledge from an old fact.