tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1780806945960886534.post3148359642828314636..comments2024-03-28T05:47:54.177+00:00Comments on Philosophical Disquisitions: Mind-Body Physicalism (Part Three): The Knowledge ArgumentJohn Danaherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06761686258507859309noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1780806945960886534.post-71336906930744441012011-06-11T14:28:04.526+01:002011-06-11T14:28:04.526+01:00I always feel a little weirded out by this debate....I always feel a little weirded out by this debate.<br /><br />The people arguing against physicalism aren't usually doing so because they want to prove the existence of some esoteric, technically non-physical aspect of the world. They want to prove that magic is real. They want to prove that spirit worlds are real, and populated with spirit beings. They want to prove that you can cast magic spells by entreating the right spirit entities, and that one day the entire world will be attacked by a giant sheep and a horde of winged scorpion horses with human faces that come from another plane of existence. And unfortunately for them, physicalism would seem to rule all those things out.<br /><br />So they focus on questions like whether "knowledge" is technically physical or non physical, because maybe if they can erode the wall that physicalism imposes to their beliefs, they can wiggle in some extra magical stuff as well. But that isn't even the case! If we decided, right now, that "knowledge" is non physical, nothing would change with regards to spirit beings in spirit worlds.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com