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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"knowledge argument"”.
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The Knowledge Argument and Howard Robinson’s 2016 case for Dualism and Mental Substance
Standard physicalist responses to Frank Jackson’s Knowledge Argument (1982) are argued to be unsatisfactory. Related arguments are then considered for Mind Body Dualism from Howard Robinson (2016), covering topics of scientific reduction and supervenience. I object to Robinson’s arguments for the …
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Collaborative Zero-Knowledge Proofs with Secure Multiparty Computations
We study argument system. The argument system allows prover to convince verifier that a delegated computation is correctly computed through a prover-generated proof. Argument system can guarantee security in an untrusted setting, such as cloud computing. In particular, we focus on zero-knowledge …
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Practical knowledge and abilities
… between know-how, abilities, and ordinary knowledge of facts. It is shown that there is a distinctively practical sort of know-how and a corresponding interpretation of 'S knows how to [phi]', and that this special sort of know-how, while possessing representational content, is not simply …
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Could consciousness be physically realised?
… consciousness against recent epistemic arguments for dualism. First I argue (as against Kripke) that psychophysical identities can be a posteriori (and apparently contingent, and conceivably false). Their epistemic status is due to the analytic independence of phenomenal and …
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The Immediacy of Phenomenal Concepts and Immediate Implications for Physicalism
… are based on the apparent gap between physical knowledge and phenomenal knowledge. In response, some physicalists accept the epistemic gap, but deny the inference from the epistemic gap to a metaphysical gap. One popular strategy is to argue that there is something unique about our phenomenal …
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Contrastive knowledge how
… empiricists are notorious for claiming that knowledge-how is a complex disposition or ability that is directly exhibited in action. This dissertation evaluates that claim against the background of contemporary cognitive science. More specifically, it develops a broadly cognitivist theory of …