A Response to Jackson

Response to Sinks and Jackson

value, a maternal BPb value of 10 pg/dl, as seen in Table 1, should not be exceeded. If no more than 5% of breast-feeding infants are to exceed the 10 pg/dI action level, then a maternal BPb <10 jig/dl is required. A sensitivity analysis using various IEUBK modeling runs shows that the infant body lead burden at birth, from in utero accumulation via maternal lead exposures, is mainly expressed ...

Response to Jackson et al. (2012).

The Know - How Response to Jackson ' s Knowledge Argument

I defend Frank Jackson's knowledge argument against physicalism in the philosophy of mind from a criticism that has been advanced by Laurence Nemirow and David Lewis. According to their criticism, what Mary lacked when she was in her black and white room was a set of abilities; she did not know how to recognize or imagine certain types of experience from a first-person perspective. Her subseque...

Reply to Jackson.

TO THE EDITOR—We appreciate Dr Jackson’s thoughtful comments regarding the diagnostic criteria for encephalitis proposed by the International Encephalitis Consortium (IEC) Working Group [1]. He raises concerns that (1) individual patients may have laboratory or pathologic evidence of encephalitis without meeting the clinical criteria specified in the IEC case definition, and (2) that patients w...

Knowing Qualia: A Reply to Jackson

In a recent paper concerning the direct introspection of brain states (1985b) I leveled three criticisms against Frank Jackson's "knowledge argument." At stake was his bold claim that no materialist account of mind can possibly account for all mental phenomena. Jackson has replied to those criticisms in his 1986. It is to those replies, and to the issues that prompted them, that the present cha...