[mod.ai] philosophy journals

colonel@buffalo.CSNET.UUCP (07/28/86)

In article <8607211801.AA17444@ellie.SUNYAB>, rapaport@buffalo.CSNET
("William J. Rapaport") writes:

> The original version of the ... problem may be found in:
> 	Jackson, "Epiphenomenal Qualia," _Philosophical Q._ 32(1982)127-136.
> with replies in:
> 	Churchland, "Reduction, Qualia, and the Direct Introspection of
>	  Brain States," _J. of Philosophy_ 82(1985)8-28.
> 	Jackson, "What Mary Didn't Know," _J. of Philosophy_ 83(1986)291-95.
> (One of the reasons I stopped reading net.philosophy was that its
> correspondents seemed not to know about what was going on in philosophy
> journals!)

Out of curiosity I hunted up the third article on the way back from lunch.
It's aggressive and condescending; any sympathy I might have felt for
the author's argument was repulsed by his sophomoric writing.  I hope it's
not typical of the writing in philosophy journals.