Philosophers Appealing to Zombies Are Firing Blanks

Source	https://headtruth.blogspot.com/2026/05/philosophers-appealing-to-zombies-are.html
Author	Mark Mahin
Published	2026-05-09, 12:00 PM
Summary	Thinkers in the philosophy of mind have wasted too much ink on the topic of philosophical zombies, which has been the subject of many an article and essay. The first mention of a zombies argument against materialism (using that term zombies) occurred in the paper "Zombies v. Materialism" by Robert Kirk and J. E. R Squires. Kirk made an argument that was not very clearly stated. Later in his work The Conscious Mind David Chalmers stated the argument more clearly. On page 94 of that work we have s
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