Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Pelczar, Michael

Titel

Modal arguments against materialism

Ist Teil von

• Noûs (Bloomington, Indiana), 2021-06, Vol.55 (2), p.426-444

Ort / Verlag

Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Quelle

Wiley Online Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• We review existing strategies for bringing modal intuitions to bear against materialist theories of consciousness, and then propose a new strategy. Unlike existing strategies, which assume that imagination (suitably constrained) is a good guide to modal truth, the strategy proposed here makes no assumptions about the probative value of imagination. However, unlike traditional modal arguments, the argument developed here delivers only the conclusion that we should not believe that materialism is true, not that we should believe that it is false.