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The knowledge argument (also known as Mary's Room, Mary the Colour Scientist, or Mary the super-scientist) is a philosophical thought experiment proposed by Frank Jackson in his article "Epiphenomenal Qualia" (1982) and extended in "What Mary Didn't Know" (1986).
Jackson motivates the knowledge argument by a famous thought experiment known as Mary's room. In a much cited passage [14] he phrases the thought experiment as follows: Mary is a brilliant scientist who is, for whatever reason, forced to investigate the world from a black and white room via a black and white television monitor.
It was an argument to counter color realism and more broadly physicalism. The thought experiment was originally proposed by Frank Jackson as follows: Mary is a brilliant scientist who is, for whatever reason, forced to investigate the world from a black and white room via a black and white television monitor.
Specifically, the knowledge argument is an attack on the physicalist claim about the completeness of physical truths. The challenge posed to physicalism by the knowledge argument runs as follows: While in the room, Mary has acquired all the physical facts there are about color sensations, including the sensation of seeing red.
The argument related to the thought experiment does have a pretty set name: "the knowledge argument". I added that into the intro paragraph and added a reditect (see knowledge argument). My opinion: I think we should have the title of the article be the "knowledge argument", which would, of course, include info on Mary's room.
A stronger form of the knowledge argument [52] claims not merely that Mary would lack subjective knowledge of "what red looks like," but that she would lack knowledge of an objective fact about the world: namely, "what red looks like," a non-physical fact that can be learned only through direct experience (qualia).
Mary R. Lefkowitz (born April 30, 1935) is an American scholar of Classics. She is the Professor Emerita of Classical Studies at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts , where she previously worked from 1959 to 2005.
Mary Beatrice Midgley (née Scrutton; 13 September 1919 – 10 October 2018) [2] was a British philosopher. A senior lecturer in philosophy at Newcastle University , she was known for her work on science, ethics and animal rights .