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Feeling pain for the very first time: the normative knowledge argument
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In this paper I present a new argument against internalist theories of practical reason. My argument is inspired by Frank Jackson's celebrated Knowledge Argument. I ask what will happen when an agent experiences pain for the first time. Such an agent, I argue, will gain new normative knowledge that internalism cannot explain. This argument present a similar difficulty for other subjectivist and constructivist theories of practical reason and value. I end by suggesting that some debates in met...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1111/j.1933-1592.2009.00308.x
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- Wiley-Blackwell Publisher's website
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- Philosophy and Phenomenological Research Journal website
- Volume:
- 80
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 20-49
- Publication date:
- 2010-01-01
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1933-1592
- ISSN:
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0031-8205
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- English
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- ora:4460
- Deposit date:
- 2010-11-17
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- Copyright date:
- 2010
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- The full-text of this article is not available in ORA, but you may be able to access the article via the publisher copy link on this record page. Citation: Kahane, G. (2010). 'Feeling pain for the very first time: the normative knowledge argument', Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 80(1), 20-49. [The definitive version of the article is available at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1933-1592.2009.00308.x/abstract]. © 2010 Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, LLC.
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