• ISBN13: 9780521879668
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Religion and Philosophy
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: February 18, 2008
• Pages: 178
• Original Price: GBP 59.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 359 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Metaphysics

In God and Phenomenal Consciousness, Yujin Nagasawa bridges debates in two distinct areas of philosophy: the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of religion. He proposes novel objections to Thomas Nagel's and Frank Jackson's well-known 'knowledge arguments' against the physicalist approach to phenomenal consciousness by utilizing his own objections to arguments against the existence of God. From the failure of these arguments, Nagasawa derives a unique metaphysical thesis, 'nontheoretical physicalism, ' according to which although this world is entirely physical, there are physical facts that cannot be captured even by complete theories of the physical sciences.