Archive for October, 2008

Stalnaker on Mary, Part II

Posted by Robert Howell on October 27th, 2008

In the last post I tried to raise a couple of questions meant to clarify Stalnaker’s stance on the knowledge argument.  In this post I want to be slightly more critical.  In particular, I want to raise two potential problems for parts of Stalnaker’s answer the the knowledge argument.  (Note: just as I was finishing [...]

Stalnaker on Mary, Part I

Posted by Robert Howell on October 25th, 2008

In Our Knowledge of the Internal World, Robert Stalnaker offers his answer to the knowledge argument. Unfortunately, I find it difficult to determine which of the premises he denies: the epistemic premise, the metaphysical premise, or both. This post is basically a request for clarification.