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39Know-how, ability, and the ability hypothesisTheoria 67 (3): 229-39. 2001.David Lewis and Laurence Nemirow claim that knowing what an experience is like is knowing-how, not knowing-that. They identify this know-how with the abilities to remember, imagine, and recognize experiences, and Lewis labels their view ‘the Ability Hypothesis’. The Ability Hypothesis has intrinsic interest. But Lewis and Nemirow devised it specifically to block certain anti-physicalist arguments due to Thomas Nagel and Frank Jackson . Does it?
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6Does the ignorance hypothesis undermine the conceivability and knowledge arguments? (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 79 (3): 756-765. 2009.No Abstract
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Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Language |
Philosophy of Mind |
Areas of Interest
Metaphysics |
Philosophy of Mind |