Zombies Slap Back: Why the Anti-Zombie Parody Does Not Work
Abstract
In his "anti-zombie argument", Keith Frankish turns the tables on "zombists", forcing them to find an independent argument against the conceivability of anti-zombies. I argue that zombists can shoulder the burden, for there is an important asymmetry between the conceivability of zombies and the conceivability of anti-zombies, which is reflected in the embedding of a totality-clause under the conceivability operator. This makes the anti-zombie argument susceptible to what I call the 'Modified Incompleteness', according to which we cannot conceive of scenarios. In this paper I also argue that conceiving of the zombie-situation is a good starting point for rendering the zombie argument plausible.
Keywords:
The zombie argument / the anti-zombie argument / situation / scenario / conceivabilitySource:
Disputatio-International Journal of Philosophy, 2015, 7, 40, 25-43Publisher:
- Sciendo, Warsaw
Funding / projects:
- Logical-epistemological basis of metaphysics (RS-MESTD-Basic Research (BR or ON)-179067)
DOI: 10.2478/disp-2015-0002
ISSN: 0873-626X
WoS: 000386429800002
Scopus: 2-s2.0-84931460489
Institution/Community
Filozofija / PhilosophyTY - JOUR AU - Prelević, Duško PY - 2015 UR - http://reff.f.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/2052 AB - In his "anti-zombie argument", Keith Frankish turns the tables on "zombists", forcing them to find an independent argument against the conceivability of anti-zombies. I argue that zombists can shoulder the burden, for there is an important asymmetry between the conceivability of zombies and the conceivability of anti-zombies, which is reflected in the embedding of a totality-clause under the conceivability operator. This makes the anti-zombie argument susceptible to what I call the 'Modified Incompleteness', according to which we cannot conceive of scenarios. In this paper I also argue that conceiving of the zombie-situation is a good starting point for rendering the zombie argument plausible. PB - Sciendo, Warsaw T2 - Disputatio-International Journal of Philosophy T1 - Zombies Slap Back: Why the Anti-Zombie Parody Does Not Work EP - 43 IS - 40 SP - 25 VL - 7 DO - 10.2478/disp-2015-0002 ER -
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Prelević, D.. (2015). Zombies Slap Back: Why the Anti-Zombie Parody Does Not Work. in Disputatio-International Journal of Philosophy Sciendo, Warsaw., 7(40), 25-43. https://doi.org/10.2478/disp-2015-0002
Prelević D. Zombies Slap Back: Why the Anti-Zombie Parody Does Not Work. in Disputatio-International Journal of Philosophy. 2015;7(40):25-43. doi:10.2478/disp-2015-0002 .
Prelević, Duško, "Zombies Slap Back: Why the Anti-Zombie Parody Does Not Work" in Disputatio-International Journal of Philosophy, 7, no. 40 (2015):25-43, https://doi.org/10.2478/disp-2015-0002 . .