Robert Kirk is a professor

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 emeritus

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 in the Department of Philosophy

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 at the University of Nottingham

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. Kirk is known for his work on philosophical zombies—putative unconscious beings physically and behaviorally identical to human beings. Although Kirk did not invent this idea, he introduced the term zombie in his 1974 paper "Sentience and Behaviour", and helped to popularize the concept in the 1970s. Kirk continued to publish on consciousness and physicalism during the 1980s and 1990s and recently has attacked the possibility of zombies in his 2005 book Zombies and Consciousness.

Selected bibliography

• Sentience and Behaviour, Robert Kirk, Mind (new series) 83, #329, (January 1974), pp. 43–60.
• Zombies v. Materialists , Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 48, supplement, pp. 135–152.
• Raw Feeling, Oxford University Press, 1994. ISBN 0198236794.
• Zombies and Consciousness, Oxford University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-19-928548-9.

External links

• Robert Kirk home page at the University of Nottingham
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• Zombies entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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