Physicalism Meets the Knowability Paradox
Abstract
This research is an attempt to shed light on a serious difficulty for contemporary physicalism. The methodological approach includes both historical critique and logical analysis. The first section shows that one type of physicalism is superior to other versions. In the second section, I explain the knowability paradox and argue that it is entailed by this superior physicalism. Finally, I argue that there are no adequate solutions to the paradox, and that the one possibility to rescue the physicalist from the paradox fails, making the prospects for physicalism poor.
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Program year: 1996/1997Digitized from print original stored in HDR
Citation
Lewis, David M., II (1996). Physicalism Meets the Knowability Paradox. University Undergraduate Research Fellow. Available electronically from https : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /CAPSTONE -LewisD _1996.