What Mary Didn't Know

What we know now that we didn't know then.

Something about Mary: Essays on Phenomenal Consciousness and Frank Jackson’s Knowledge Argument

A lengthy introduction by two of the editors, Daniel Stoljar and Yujin Nagasawa. Frank Jackson's classic articles from the 1980's, " Epiphenomenal Qualia " and " What Mary Didn't Know, " in which he develops and defends the knowledge argument. Fifteen articles representing the main lines of response, four of which have not been previously published. The new ones are bys articles aren't wholly n...

What Mary Didn't Know About Tacit Knowledge

This paper explores the notion that tacit knowledge can be converted to explicit knowledge, by examining the philosophical concept of qualia. Qualia is suggested to be a type of tacit knowledge that cannot be made explicit, whether or not one subscribes to the belief that qualia also represents a non-physical mental property. Given that qualia shows that there exists at least one type of knowle...

A pseudo-Rumsfeldian approach to pleural effusions in mechanically ventilated patients

Pleural effusions are common in mechanically ventilated patients but what is their significance and how should we manage them? What do we know? What don't we know? What didn't we know we knew? How should we resolve the unknowns?

Portrait of a leader in immunotherapeutics

It's the question that every grade school kid has to answer at some point or another--"What do you want to be when you grow up?" My mom still has the second grade paper on which I first wrote down that I wanted to be a "physician scientist." I'm quite certain that I probably didn't know exactly what a physician scientist was at the time. I certainly didn't know any physician scientists personal...