<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>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.</p></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 zombiesituation is a good starting point for rendering the zombie argument plausible.

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

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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...

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

Published Online: Dec 31, 2018

Page range: 25 - 43

Received: Nov 09, 2013

Accepted: May 24, 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/disp-2015-0002

Keywords
The zombie argument, the anti-zombie argument, conceivability, scenario, situation

© 2015 Duško Prelević, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

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

Published Online: Dec 31, 2018

Page range: 25 - 43

Received: Nov 09, 2013

Accepted: May 24, 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/disp-2015-0002

KeywordsThe zombie argument, the anti-zombie argument, conceivability, scenario, situation

© 2015 Duško Prelević, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
The zombie argument, the anti-zombie argument, conceivability, scenario, situation