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“The Experience of Left and Right” Meets the Physics of Left and Right

dc.contributor.authorJohn Baker, Daviden_US
dc.date.accessioned2012-09-05T14:46:17Z
dc.date.available2013-10-18T17:47:30Zen_US
dc.date.issued2012-09en_US
dc.identifier.citationJohn Baker, David (2012). " “The Experience of Left and Right” Meets the Physics of Left and Right ." Noûs 46(3). <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/93584>en_US
dc.identifier.issn0029-4624en_US
dc.identifier.issn1468-0068en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/93584
dc.description.abstractI consider an argument, due to Geoffrey Lee, that we can know  a priori   from the left‐right asymmetrical character of experience that our brains are left‐right asymmetrical. Lee's argument assumes a premise he calls  relationism , which I show is well‐supported by the best philosophical picture of spacetime. I explain why Lee's relationism is compatible with left‐right asymmetrical laws. I then show that the conclusion of Lee's argument is not as strong or surprising as he makes it out to be.en_US
dc.publisherBlackwell Publishing Incen_US
dc.publisherWiley Periodicals, Inc.en_US
dc.title“The Experience of Left and Right” Meets the Physics of Left and Righten_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.rights.robotsIndexNoFollowen_US
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelPhilosophyen_US
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelHumanitiesen_US
dc.description.peerreviewedPeer Revieweden_US
dc.contributor.affiliationumUniversity of Michiganen_US
dc.description.bitstreamurlhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/93584/1/j.1468-0068.2010.00814.x.pdf
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/j.1468-0068.2010.00814.xen_US
dc.identifier.sourceNoûsen_US
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