Torin Alter presents a compelling defence of the 'knowledge
argument' against physicalism, pioneered by Frank Jackson.
According to physicalism, consciousness is a physical phenomenon.
The knowledge argument stars Mary, who learns all objective,
physical information through black-and-white media and yet acquires
new information when she first sees colors for herself: information
about what it is like to see in color. Based partly on that case,
Jackson concludes that not all information is physical. Alter
argues that the knowledge argument succeeds in refuting all
standard versions of physicalism: versions on which consciousness
is grounded by what objective science reveals. Alter also argues
that given further, plausible assumptions, the knowledge argument
leads to Russellian monism, according to which there are intrinsic
properties that both constitute consciousness and underlie
properties described by physics, such as mass and charge. Alter
explains how the knowledge argument establishes those two
conclusions and defend it against numerous objections.
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