TY - JOUR
T1 - Ghosts and sparse properties
T2 - why physicalists have more to fear from ghosts than zombies
AU - Goff, P.
N1 - The definitive version can be found at: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/ Copyright Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, LLC. [Full text of this article is not available in the UHRA]
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Zombies are bodies without minds: creatures that are physically identical to actual human beings, but which have no conscious experience. Much of the consciousness literature concerns how threatening philosophical reflection on such creatures is to physicalism. There is not much attention given to the converse possibility, the possibility of minds without bodies, that is, creatures who are conscious but whose nature is exhausted by their being conscious. We can call such a 'purely conscious' creature a ghost. [opening paragraph]
AB - Zombies are bodies without minds: creatures that are physically identical to actual human beings, but which have no conscious experience. Much of the consciousness literature concerns how threatening philosophical reflection on such creatures is to physicalism. There is not much attention given to the converse possibility, the possibility of minds without bodies, that is, creatures who are conscious but whose nature is exhausted by their being conscious. We can call such a 'purely conscious' creature a ghost. [opening paragraph]
U2 - 10.1111/j.1933-1592.2010.00352.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1933-1592.2010.00352.x
M3 - Article
SN - 0031-8205
VL - 81
SP - 119
EP - 139
JO - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
JF - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
IS - 1
ER -