Books by Robert (University of Nottingham) Kirk

How are truths about physical and mental states related? Robert Kirk articulates and defends 'redescriptive physicalism'-a fresh approach to the connection between the physical and the mental, which answers the problems that mental causation has traditionally raised for other non-reductive views.

Zombies would be physically and behaviourally just like us, but not conscious - a strange idea which is currently highly influential in the philosophy of mind. In this clear, readable, and entertaining book Robert Kirk argues that the zombie idea reflects a fundamentally mistaken way of thinking about consciousness. He sets out both to show why there couldn't be zombies, and to present a strikingly original new argument about the true nature of consciousexperience.