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Yujin Nagasawa

Yujin Nagasawa is Research Fellow at the Australian National University and Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Alberta.

Titles by This Editor

There's Something About Mary

Essays on Phenomenal Consciousness and Frank Jackson's Knowledge Argument
Edited by Peter Ludlow, Yujin Nagasawa and Daniel Stoljar

In Frank Jackson's famous thought experiment, Mary is confined to a black-and-white room and educated through black-and-white books and lectures on a black-and-white television. In this way, she learns everything there is to know about the physical world. If physicalism—the doctrine that everything is physical—is true, then Mary seems to know all there is to know. What happens, then, when she emerges from her black-and-white room and sees the color red for the first time?