Australian analytic philosopher who devised the knowledge argument against physicalism and co-developed conceptual analysis as a philosophical method.
The Mary's Room thought experiment: Mary knows all physical facts about color vision but learns something new upon first seeing red, arguing that qualia are not captured by physical descriptions. Also defends a priori conceptual analysis as a bridge between ordinary claims and scientific ontology.
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