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August 23, 2008
I have been working on my paper, inspired by discussion on this blog, The Reverse-Zombie Argument against Dualism. I just found out that the shombie argument was anticipated by Keith Frankish (he calls them anti-zombies). Ah well; a good argument is a good argument no matter who discovers it. Frankish doesn’t appeal to zoombies and he argues that shombies are problematic for the claim that conceivability entails possibility while I use them to argue that zombies are inconceivable.
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GNZ | August 23, 2008 at 5:39 pm
Maybe yours can be a more comprehensive
anyway
here is what I presume is a draft of Gualtiero’s paper http://www.umsl.edu/~piccininig/Access_Denied_to_Zombies.htm
he says
“I will argue that, when relevant matters are properly clarified, the same ingredients used in the zombie conceivability argument—whatever, exactly, they might be—may be used to construct an argument to the opposite conclusion. If that is correct, we reach a stalemate between physicalism and property dualism: while the possibility of some zombies entails property dualism, the possibility of other creatures entails physicalism. Since these two possibilities are inconsistent, one of them is not genuine. To resolve this stalemate, we need more than thought experiments.”
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GNZ | August 23, 2008 at 6:05 pm
Do you have a journal in mind for the paper?
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Richard Brown | August 24, 2008 at 7:29 am
Thanks for the link to Gualtiero’s paper! I did not know about it, and I am even a contributor to Brains, his group blog!
Nope, no journal in mind. I was mostly thinking conference presentations at this point and then maybe a journal…why do you have one in mind?
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GNZ | August 25, 2008 at 3:34 am
I was just thinking of commenting on the paper but thought it would require a bit of an idea of what you are aiming at in terms of style. I’m afraid I am compulsive abut trying to help.
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Richard Brown | August 25, 2008 at 11:19 am
That good, since I can use all the help I can get!
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