Next: Moody's Argument IN DEFENSE OF IMPENETRABLE ZOMBIES Selmer Bringsjord Dept. of Philosophy, Psychology & Cognitive Science Department of Computer Science Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy, NY 12180 USA selmer@rpi.edu http://www.rpi.edu/ brings Abstract: Moody is right that the doctrine of conscious inessentialism (CI) is false. Unfortunately, his zombie-based argument against (CI), once ...

The Unimagined Preposterousness of Zombies commentary on T. Moody, O. Flanagan and T. Polger, Journal of Consciousness Studies, vol. 2, no. 4, 1995, pp. 322-326. Daniel C. Dennett The Unimagined Preposterousness of Zombies Knock-down refutations are rare in philosophy, and unambiguous self-refutations are even rarer, for obvious reasons, but sometimes we get lucky. Sometimes philosophers clutch ...

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Allin Cottrell, Wake Forest University, Dept. of Economics, Box 7505, Winston-Salem NC 27109, USA. Email: cottrell@wfu.edu Journal of Consciousness Studies, 6, No. 1, 1999, pp. 4 12 Any story about physical process applies equally to me and to my zombie twin. It follows that nothing in that story says why, in my case, consciousness arises. . . . The very fact that it is logically possible that ...

THE EXPERTS SPEAK OUT ON THE ZOMBIE THREAT With the proliferation of low grade B movies about zombies, many have come to beleive that zombie attack is not a serious threat to home and family. In the hallowed halls of our great universities and institutions, however, that is not the case. Although some ultra-liberal academics have suggested that zombiehood is simply a case of normal people who ...

Back to Peter Marton's Home Page. Southwest Philosophy Review, 14 131-138 Peter Marton Zombies versus Materialists: The Battle for Conceivability 1. Zombies are popular nowadays in philosophical circles. Their advocates, the zombists insist that we can imagine or conceive creatures, like just you and me, sharing all the physical-chemical-biological structure with us, differing only in that they ...

FINAL DRAFT for ROYAL INSTITUTE OF PHILOSOPHY MILLENNIAL LECTURE November 28, 1999 Daniel Dennett The Zombic Hunch: Extinction of an Intuition Here is one good way of looking at the problem of consciousness: (Saul Steinberg s New Yorker cover). If this is the metaphorical truth about consciousness, what is the literal truth What is going on in the world, (largely in this chap s brain, ...

The Psychedelic Library Homepage Psychedelics and Personal Growth Yes, We Are Zombies, But We Can Become Conscious! Charles T. Tart The Journal of Consciousness Studies Symposium on Todd C. Moody's Conversations with Zombies Introduction by Peter Webster In seeking to explore the elusive nature of consciousness, philosophers have sometimes resorted to thought experiments, much as physicists ...

TWILIGHT OF THE ZOMBIES Dan Lloyd Department of Philosophy Trinity College Hartford, CT 06106 860 297 2528 dan.lloyd@trincoll.edu Abstract: A philosophical zombie is a being indistinguishable from an ordinary human in every observable respect, but lacking subjective consciousness. Zombiehood implies *linguistic indiscriminability*, the zombie tendency to talk and even do philosophy of mind in ...

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