There's Something About Mary: Essays on Phenomenal Consciousness and Frank Jackson's Knowledge Argument

This is an expertly chosen anthology of articles that map the moves physicalists can make in response to Frank Jackson'sargument about black-and-white Mary. The articles are first-rate and give the previously uninitiated reader a detailedand clear appreciation of the issues.

This book contains thoughtful essays that critique Frank Jackson's story about Mary. The selections offered what seemed to my unprofessional viewpoint to be wide-ranging and comprehensive. I thought Frank Jackson's own commentaries were among the most readable and penetrating. Excepting Jackson and maybe one or two others, the various authors, all professional philosophers, seem helpless when offered opportunities to use big words when small ones would serve. Did they want to be understood, or admired at a distance by lesser beings? If I were grading the essays, writers in the habit of using words greater than 6 syllables would be encouraged to revise their sentences. Or hanged.