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69 - Frank Jackson: Conceptual Analysis, Physicalism, and Mary’s Room

69 - Frank Jackson: Conceptual Analysis, Physicalism, and Mary’s Room

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Frank Jackson is Emeritus Professor at the Australian National
University. He is best known for the knowledge argument and
Mary’s Room—its accompanying thought experiment—but has published
widely in the philosophy of mind, epistemology, metaphysics, and
the philosophy of language. Frank and Robinson discuss conceptual
analysis—or the philosophical technique of examining the meaning,
content, or definition of a concept to resolve questions about
it—as well as physicalism, reference in the philosophy of
language, the knowledge argument, and more. Much of the material
discussed in this episode can be found in greater depth in
Frank’s 1998 book, From Metaphysics to Ethics: A Defence of
Conceptual Analysis.

OUTLINE:

00:00 Introduction

5:42 Growing Up in a Household of Philosophers

11:06 What Is Conceptual Analysis?

16:01 Physicalism, the Location Problem, and Conceptual Analysis

21:00 Conceptual Analysis and the Sorites Paradox

25:48 A Priori Physicalism

38:13 Physicalism in Math and Elsewhere

43:31 Color and the Location Problem

54:10 Ethics and the Location Problem

1:06:49 Metaphilosophy

1:13:13 Naming, Language, and Mind

1:30:05 One-Spaceism and Two-Spaceism

1:39:12 Mary’s Room and the Knowledge Argument

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Robinson Erhardt researches symbolic logic and the foundations of
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