Knowing Epiphenomena

Author: Robinson, William S.

Source: Journal of Consciousness Studies, Volume 13, Numbers 1-2, 2006 , pp. 85-100(16)

Publisher: Imprint Academic

Abstract:

This paper begins with a summary of an argument for epiphenomenalism and a review of the author's previous work on the self-stultification objection to that view. The heart of the paper considers an objection to this previous work and provides a new response to it. Questions for this new response are considered and a view is developed in which knowledge of our own mentality is seen to differ from our knowledge of external things.

Document Type: Research article

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