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Cognition, 2021 In philosophical thought experiments, as in ordinary discourse, our understanding of verbal case descriptions is enriched by automatic comprehension inferences. Such inferences have us routinely infer what else is also true of the cases described. We consider how such routine inferences from polysemous words can generate zombie intuitions: intuitions ...
Fischer, E, Sytsma, Justin
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Does the Conceivability of Zombies Entail Their Possibility? [PDF]
Organon F, 2020 According to the two-dimensional argument against materialism, developed by David Chalmers, the conceivability of zombies entails primary possibility, and the primary possibility of zombies entails further secondary possibility.
Karol Polcyn
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The Hopping Dead. Zombies in the Chinese Culture. Translation into English
Corpus Mundi, 2023 The article examines the image of zombies in Chinese culture, the traditional perception of their appearance and internal characteristics. A wide scope of written sources served as the basis of the study: inscriptions on oracle bones, ancient fortune ...
Asia A. Sarakaeva, Elina A. Sarakaeva
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The Zombie as a Mirror of Modern Mass Culture
Corpus Mundi, 2021 Zombies were and still are one of the most important symbols of modern mass culture. The zombie discourse originated among African slaves brought to the sugar plantations in the Caribbean. In many ways, the narratives of the “living dead” were a reaction
Serguey N. Yakushenkov +1 more
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Problemos, 2023 In this paper, I present a novel objection to Chalmers’s “master argument” against the privileged strategy of ‘type B’ physicalists to account for the explanatory gap (the “phenomenal concepts strategy”).
Luis Alejandro Murillo-Lara
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Robert Kirk’s Attempted Intellectual Filicide: Are Phenomenal Zombies Hurt? [PDF]
Organon F, 2022 In the paper, I discuss Robert Kirk’s attempt to refute the zombie argument against materialism by demonstrating, “in a way that is intuitively appealing as well as cogent”, that the idea of phenomenal zombies involves incoherence.
Dmytro Sepetyi
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Unveiling living dead: characteristics and consequences of zombie firms
Cogent Business & Management, 2022 The increasing number of zombies is becoming a thread for industrial growth due to their inefficiency and lack of performance. Previous studies show that zombies inhibit the growth of non-zombies and prevent the emergence of new ones.
Sadia Rashid +3 more
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The Hopping Dead. Zombies in the Chinese Culture
Corpus Mundi, 2021 The article examines the image of zombies in Chinese culture, the traditional perception of their appearance and internal characteristics. A wide scope of written sources served as the basis of the study: inscriptions on oracle bones, ancient fortune ...
Asya A. Sarakaeva, Elina A. Sarakaeva
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Diglosia, 2020 This study deals with objectification, especially towards Elizabeth Bennet (Lizzy), in the classic novel Pride and Prejudice (1813) and the mash-up novel Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2009) which were written by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith ...
Cindy Belinda Ramadhanty
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Tedium and Terror: Dreading Narration in Colson Whitehead’s Zone One
European Journal of American Studies, 2022 Critics of Colson Whitehead’s novel Zone One (2011) have treated its post-zombie-apocalypse setting as a futural standpoint for critiquing the present.
Mark Pedretti
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