Zombies Slap Back: Why the Anti-Zombie Parody Does Not Work

• Duško Prelević ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Belgrade

     University of Belgrade

     Serbia

     
• Localización: Disputatio, ISSN-e 0873-626X, Vol. 7, Nº. 40 (Mayo), 2015, págs. 25-43
• Idioma: inglés
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  • 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 zombiesituation is a good starting point for rendering the zombie argument plausible.