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Robots, Zombies and Us: Understanding Consciousness

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Description for Robots, Zombies and Us: Understanding Consciousness Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: HPM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 219 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 296.
Could robots be genuinely intelligent? Could they be conscious? Could there be zombies? Prompted by these questions Robert Kirk introduces the main problems of consciousness and sets out a new approach to solving them. He starts by discussing behaviourism, Turing's test of intelligence and Searle's famous Chinese Room argument, and goes on to examine dualism - the idea that consciousness requires something beyond the physical - together with its opposite, physicalism. Probing the idea of zombies, he concludes they are logically impossible. Having presented the central problems, he sketches his solution: a version of ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781474286596
SKU
V9781474286596
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About Robert Kirk
Robert Kirk is Emeritus Professor in the Philosophy Department at Nottingham University, UK. His books include Raw Feeling (OUP 1994), Mind and Body (Acumen 2003), Zombies and Consciousness (OUP 2005), and The Conceptual Link from Physical to Mental (OUP 2013).

Reviews for Robots, Zombies and Us: Understanding Consciousness
Kirk provides an excellent overview of the philosophical study of consciousness that is at once packed with arguments and accessible to those who are just beginning their study of consciousness.
Richard Brown, Professor of Philosophy, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY, USA The zombie thought experiment has tormented philosophers for decades. In an ambitious book, Kirk presents an ingenious argument intended ... Read more

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