With Donnchadh O'Conaill
Hosted by Jasmine Hunt Keir Aitken
Edited by Signe Emilie Eriksen
Posted in Metaphysics Main feed Philosophy of Mind
This week Keir and Jasmine take a dive into physicalism with Donnchadh O’Conaill, a researcher at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. We explore the issues that zombies (bodies with no brains) and ghosts (brains with no bodies) can pose for physicalism. We find out if physicalists should be checking under the beds at night or walking confidently into the dark?
Links to relevant papers / websites:
Donnchadh is currently working on the project The Subject of Experiences led by Prof. Martine Nida-Rümelin - details can be found on his webpage: www.donnchadhoconaill.com
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on the epistemology of modality: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/modality-epistemology/
Donnchadh O'Connaill (2021) 'Laying Ghosts to Rest': https://philpapers.org/rec/OCOLGT-2
Some info on my chapter on zombies: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781315104706-5/conceive-conceive-zombies-donnchadh-conaill
A copy of this chapter can be made available on request - please email thoughtspodcast.gla@gmail.com
Philip Goff (2010) 'Ghosts and Sparse Properties': https://philpapers.org/rec/GOFDTP
Peter Kung (2010) 'Imaging as a Guide to Possibility': https://philpapers.org/rec/KUNPK-2
Peter Kung (2016)'You Really Do Imagine It: Against Error Theories of Imagination': https://philpapers.org/rec/KUNYRD
Thomas Nagel (1974) 'What is it Like to be a Bat?': https://philpapers.org/rec/NAGWII