Frankish, Keith
(2007).
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| DOI (Digital Object Identifier) Link: | https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9213.2007.510.x |
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Abstract
The zombie argument has come to occupy a central role in the case for a non-physicalist view of consciousness. This paper seeks to turn the tables on defenders of the argument ('zombists') by showing that a parallel argument can be run for physicalism. The argument invokes what I call anti-zombies – purely physical creatures that are nonetheless conscious. I show that, using the same resources as those employed by zombists, it is possible to construct an argument from the conceivability of anti-zombies to the truth of physicalism. l go on to defend the claim that anti-zombies are conceivable and to argue that the anti-zombie argument can be defeated only at the cost of rendering the zombie argument itself redundant. The moral of the paper is that dualists should not be zombists.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Copyright Holders: | 2007 The Author |
| ISSN: | 0031-8094 |
| Keywords: | consciousness; zombie argument; zombies; conceivability; physicalism; property dualism |
| Academic Unit/School: | Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > History, Religious Studies, Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) |
| Item ID: | 2191 |
| Depositing User: | Keith Frankish |
| Date Deposited: | 29 May 2007 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Jun 2017 17:01 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/2191 |
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