@article{100121,
  author = {Victoria McGeer},
  title = {"The trouble with Mary"},
  abstract = { "Abstract:~ Two~ arguments~ are~ famously~ held~ to~ support~ the~ conclusion that~ consciousness~ cannot~ be~ explained~ in~ purely~ physical~ or~ functional terms~ {\textendash}~ hence,~ that~ physicalism~ is~ false:~ the~ modal~ argument~ and~ the knowledge~ argument.~ While~ anti-physicalists~ appeal~ to~ both~ arguments, this~ paper~ argues~ there~ is~ a~ methodological~ incoherence~ in~ jointly~ main- taining~ them:~ the~ modal~ argument~ supports~ the~ possibility~ of~ zombies; but~ the~ possibility~ of~ zombies~ undercuts~ the~ knowledge~ argument.~ At best,~ this~ leaves~ anti-physicalists~ in~ a~ considerably~ weakened~ rhetorical position.~ At~ worst,~ it~ shows~ that~ commonsense~ intuitions~ on~ which anti-physicalists~ rely~ mislead~ us~ about~ the~ true~ nature~ of~~ conscious"<br>"experience." },
  year = {2003},
  journal = {Pacific Philosophical Quarterly},
  volume = {84},
  pages = {384-393},
  language = {eng},
}