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Philosophy of consciousness :: Materialism and dualism :: Zombies and the conceivability argument

See also: The explanatory gap, `Hard' and `easy' problems, Conceptual analysis and a priori entailment, The knowledge argument, Kripke's modal argument, Arguments from disembodiment, Other anti-materialist arguments, Phenomenal concepts, Absent qualia, Two-dimensionalism about content.

Torin Alter (online). Garrett on causal essentialism and zombies. (More)
Torin Alter (2007). Imagining subjective absence: Marcus on zombies. (More)
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http://www.as.ua.edu/philos/talter/Imagining Subjective Absence.pdf
http://disputatio.com/articles/022-1.pdf
Istvan Aranyosi (2005). Chalmers' zombie argument. (More)
Murat Aydede & Guven Guzeldere (2001). Consciousness, conceivability arguments, and perspectivalism: The dialectics of the debate. (More)
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http://www.philosophy.ubc.ca/faculty/aydede/dialectics.pdf
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/faculty/aydede/dialectics.pdf
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/449395.html
Murat Aydede (online). On the conceivability of phenomenal zombies with "sensory-perceptual" systems that are informationally identical to ours. (More)
Andrew Bailey (manuscript). Physicalism and the preposterousness of zombies. (More)
Andrew Bailey (manuscript). The unsoundness of arguments from conceivability. (More)
Andrew Bailey (manuscript). Zombies support biological theories of consciousness. (More)
Peter Bokulich (manuscript). Putting zombies to rest: The role of dynamics in reduction. (More)
Selmer Bringsjord (1995). In defense of impenetrable zombies. (More)
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http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/bringsjord95defense.html
http://www.rpi.edu/~brings/SELPAP/zombies.jcs/zombies.jcs.html
Selmer Bringsjord (1999). The zombie attack on the computational conception of mind. (More)
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http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/bringsjord97zombie.html
http://www.phil.canterbury.ac.nz/tom_bestor/e-texts/Bringsjord,zombies.ppr.pdf
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/17288.html
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0031-8205(199903)59:1<41:TZAOTC>2.0.CO;2-F
David Chalmers (2002). Does conceivability entail possibility? (More)
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http://www.u.arizona.edu/~chalmers/papers/conceivability.html
David Chalmers (2004). Imagination, indexicality, and intensions. (More)
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http://consc.net/papers/perry.html
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1933-1592.2004.tb00334.x
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/ips/ppr/2004/00000068/00000001/art00011
David Chalmers (online). Mind and modality. (More)
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http://www.u.arizona.edu/~chalmers/papers/mm.html
David Chalmers (1999). Materialism and the metaphysics of modality. (More)
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http://consc.net/papers/modality.html
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0031-8205(199906)59:2<473:MATMOM>2.0.CO;2-Q
David Chalmers (1993). Self-ascription without qualia: A case-study. (More)
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http://consc.net/papers/goldman.html
http://www.u.arizona.edu/~chalmers/papers/goldman.html
David Chalmers (2006). The two-dimensional argument against materialism. (More)
Daniel Cohnitz (online). The logic of negative conceivability. (More)
Daniel Dennett (1995). The unimagined preposterousness of zombies. (More)
Daniel Dennett (2001). The zombic hunch: Extinction of an intuition? (More)
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http://ase.tufts.edu/cogstud/papers/zombic.htm
http://www.brianfelsen.com/resourcepapers/zombic.rtf
Eric Dietrich & Anthony Gillies (2001). Consciousness and the limits of our imaginations. (More)
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http://www.springerlink.com/index/N8278506L281T513.pdf
http://www.kluweronline.com/article.asp?PIPS=260563&PDF=1
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/klu/synt/2001/00000126/00000003/00260563
Heimir Geirsson (2005). Conceivability and defeasible modal justification. (More)
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http://www.springerlink.com/content/n41460740nq8318n/fulltext.pdf
http://www.springerlink.com/index/N41460740NQ8318N.pdf
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/klu/phil/2005/00000122/00000003/00006522
Larry Hauser (online). Revenge of the zombies. (More)
Ivan Havel (1999). Living in conceivable worlds. (More)
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http://www.kluweronline.com/article.asp?PIPS=201839&PDF=1
http://www.springerlink.com/index/T71J3757537056R2.pdf
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/klu/foda/1998/00000003/00000002/00201839
Mark Johnston (manuscript). It necessarily ain't so. (More)
Jesper Kallestrup (2006). Physicalism, conceivability and strong necessities. (More)
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http://www.springerlink.com/index/02R087T87K312RL3.pdf
http://www.springerlink.com/content/02r087t87k312rl3/fulltext.pdf
Navin Kartik (2000). In the hands of zombies. (More)
Mike Kearns (online). Could Daniel Dennett be a zombie? (More)
Robert Kirk (online). Zombies. (More)
Christof Koch & Francis Crick (2001). On the zombie within. (More)
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http://www.klab.caltech.edu/Papers/397.pdf
http://www.klab.caltech.edu/~koch/koch-crick-nature-01.pdf
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v411/n6840/full/411893a0.html
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=11418835&dopt=Citation
Peter Kung (online). Imaginability as a guide to possibility. (More)
Manfred Kupffer (online). Conceivability and the a priori. (More)
Dan Lloyd (online). Twilight of the zombies. (More)
William Lycan (2003). Vs. a new a priorist argument for dualism. (More)
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http://www.unc.edu/~ujanel/AgAPrism.htm
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1533-6077.00009
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/links/doi/10.1111/1533-6077.00009/abs/
Michael Lynch (2006). Zombies and the case of the phenomenal pickpocket. (More)
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http://www.philosophy.uconn.edu/department/lynch/zombies.pdf
http://www.kluweronline.com/article.asp?PIPS=5272356&PDF=1
http://www.springerlink.com/content/p13p0333117401k0/fulltext.pdf
http://www.springerlink.com/index/P13P0333117401K0.pdf
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/klu/synt/2006/00000149/00000001/00006241
Eric Marcus (2004). Why zombies are inconceivable. (More)
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http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/index/Q8CU72RTGX10YHM8.pdf
http://www.informaworld.com/index/713659880.pdf
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/oup/ajphil/2004/00000082/00000003/art00477
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/routledg/ajphil/2004/00000082/00000003/art00007
Peter Marton (1998). Zombies versus materialists: The battle for conceivability. (More)
Chris Mathieson (2000). Reining in Chalmers: On the logical possibility of zombies. (More)
Wallace Matson (manuscript). Logical possibility, laws of nature, and mind in the history of philosophy. (More)
John McCarthy (1995). Todd Moody's zombies. (More)
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http://cogprints.org/426/
http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/zombie/zombie.html
http://citebase.eprints.org/cgi-bin/citations?archiveID=oai:cogprints.soton.ac.uk:426
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/mccarthy97todd.html
http://cogprints.org/426/00/zombie.ps
http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/259682.html
http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/zombie.pdf
Todd Moody (1994). Conversations with zombies. (More)
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http://www.zynet.co.uk/imprint/Moody_zombies.html
http://www.imprint.co.uk/Moody_zombies.html
http://imprint.co.uk/Moody_zombies.html
Peter Murphy (2006). Reliability connections between conceivability and inconceivability. (More)
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http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1746-8361.2005.01045.x
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bpl/dltc/2006/00000060/00000002/art00008
Thomas Nagel (1998). Conceiving the impossible and the mind-body problem. (More)
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http://philosophy.fas.nyu.edu/docs/IO/1172/conceiving.pdf
http://www.journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0031819198000035
http://journals.cambridge.org/article_S0031819198000035
Derk Pereboom (forthcoming). Consciousness and introspective inaccuracy. (More)
Matthew Phillips (manuscript). Why positive and negative conceivability can't save the conceivability-possibility Link. (More)
Karol Polcyn (2006). Conceivability, possibility, and a posteriori necessity: On Chalmers' argument for dualism. (More)
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http://www.diametros.iphils.uj.edu.pl/pdf/diam7polcyn.pdf
Karol Polcyn (manuscript). Chalmers' two-dimensional argument against materialism. (More)
Thomas Polger (online). Zombies. (More)
Paul Raymore (manuscript). A materialist response to David Chalmers' The Conscious Mind. (More)
David Rosenthal (1968). Intentionality: A study of the views of Chisholm and Sellars. (More)
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http://www.ditext.com/rosenthal/rost-dis.html
David Rosenthal & Wilfrid Sellars (1972). The Rosenthal-Sellars correspondence on intentionality. (More)
William Seager (manuscript). Are zombies logically possible? -- And why it matters. (More)
Jan Sleutels (2006). Greek zombies. (More)
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https://www.openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/handle/1887/8643
http://jan.sleutels.com/teksten/zombies.pdf
https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/dspace/handle/1887/8643
http://taylorandfrancis.metapress.com/index/K7133P7331316346.pdf
http://www.informaworld.com/index/743786468.pdf
Tamler Sommers (2002). Of zombies, color scientists, and floating iron bars. (More)
Daniel Stoljar (2006). Actors and zombies. (More)
Daniel Stoljar (forthcoming). Review of Perry's Knowledge, Possibility, and Consciousness. (More)
Daniel Stoljar (2001). The conceivability argument and two conceptions of the physical. (More)
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http://philrsss.anu.edu.au/~dstoljar/onlinepapers/Stoljar-Con&TwoCon.pdf
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/0029-4624.35.s15.18
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bpl/nous/2001/00000035/A00100s1/art00325
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bpl/nous/2001/00000035/A0150s15/art00325
Daniel Stoljar (2007). Two conceivability arguments compared. (More)
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http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-9264.2007.00210.x
Julia Tanney (2004). On the conceptual, psychological, and moral status of zombies, swamp-beings, and other ‘behaviourally indistinguishable’ creatures. (More)
Nigel Thomas (1998). Zombie killer. (More)
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http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=dliyExsqYGwC&oi=fnd&pg=PA171&dq=Zombie+killer+Thomas&ots=xz3Hidqf_f&sig=pi69RPsSfKQp9QZh0O4mF-6gf6U
Tillmann Vierkant (2002). Zombie Mary and the blue banana. On the compatibility of the 'knowledge argument' with the argument from modality. (More)
Brian Weatherson (manuscript). Morality in fiction and consciousness in imagination. (More)
Stephen Yablo (1999). Concepts and consciousness. (More)
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http://www.mit.edu/~yablo/concon.html
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0031-8205(199906)59:2<455:CAC>2.0.CO;2-2
Stephen Yablo (2002). Coulda, woulda, shoulda. (More)
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http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/yablo01coulda.html
Stephen Yablo (online). Illusions of possibility. (More)
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http://web.mit.edu/afs/athena.mit.edu/user/y/a/yablo/OldFiles/www/illposs.pdf
http://www.mit.edu/afs/athena.mit.edu/user/y/a/yablo/OldFiles/www/illposs.pdf
Stephen Yablo (online). Modal rationalism and logical empiricism: Some similarities. (More)

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