Thinker

1 reading

← Thinkers

David Lewis

Thinker · 1 reading

Lewis proposes that experience teaches abilities. Do those abilities account for everything Mary learns?

All readings

1 reading · Title A–Z

  • Guided course · Module 13 · Lesson 82

    What would explain conscious experience?

    Does Mary learn something new when she first sees color? Jackson argues that she learns what the experience is like; Lewis’s ability hypothesis questions whether that is a new fact, and Chalmers separates explaining functions from explaining experience.