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.