Kingston Philosophy Café

Physicalism is broadly the view that the concepts and investigatory procedures of the physical sciences are all that are required to provide a complete account of what can be known.  A major difficulty with this claim is how to account for the subjective aspects of human experience.  This talk will provide a general account of the issues at stake before focussing on Frank Jackson's (1982) anti-physicalist argument and Earl Conee's (1994) attempt to refute it.