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Research notes
All notesC. D. Broad’s Mathematical Archangel and the Knowledge Argument
How Broad’s 1925 thought experiment anticipated later arguments that complete physical knowledge may fail to reveal what experience is like.
Read research noteWhat Is C. D. Broad’s Emergent Materialism?
Broad’s precise theory of emergence, why it differs from simple reduction, and the qualification needed to state his final position accurately.
Read research noteC. D. Broad’s Seventeen Theories of Mind and Matter
Why Broad refused the simple materialism-dualism-idealism trilemma and mapped seventeen possible relations between mind and matter.
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