Robert Kirk

Zombies and Consciousness

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Zombies would be physically and behaviourally just like us, but not conscious - a strange idea which is currently highly influential in the philosophy of mind. In this clear, readable, and entertaining book Robert Kirk argues that the zombie idea reflects a fundamentally mistaken way of thinking about consciousness. He sets out both to show why there couldn't be zombies, and to present a strikingly original new argument about the true nature of conscious experience.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 383g
• ISBN-13: 9780199229802
• ISBN-10: 0199229805
• Artikelnr.: 22922764

Autorenporträt

Robert Kirk, University of Nottingham

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction
2: Zombies and minimal physicalism
3: The case for zombies
4: Zapping the zombie idea
5: What has to be done
6: Deciders
7: Decision, control, and integration
8: De-sophisticating the framework
9: Direct activity
10: Gap? What gap?
11: Survival of the fittest