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    Making it Explicit: Reasoning, Representing, and Discursive Commitment.Robert Kirk - 1996 - Philosophical Quarterly 46 (183):238-241.
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  2. Zombies and Consciousness.Robert Kirk - 2005 - Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press UK.
    By definition zombies would be physically and behaviourally just like us, but not conscious. This currently very influential idea is a threat to all forms of physicalism, and has led some philosophers to give up physicalism and become dualists. It has also beguiled many physicalists, who feel forced to defend increasingly convoluted explanations of why the conceivability of zombies is compatible with their impossibility. Robert Kirk argues that the zombie idea depends on an incoherent view of the nature of phenomenal (...)
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    Consciousness Reconsidered.Raw Feeling: a Philosophical Account of the Essence of Consciousness.Owen Flanagan & Robert Kirk - 1996 - Philosophical Quarterly 46 (184):417-421.
  4. Zombies v. Materialists.Robert Kirk & J. E. R. Squires - 1974 - Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 48 (1):135-164.
  5. Raw Feeling: A Philosophical Account of the Essence of Consciousness.Robert Kirk - 1994 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    Robert Kirk uses the notion of "raw feeling" to bridge the intelligibility gap between our knowledge of ourselves as physical organisms and our knowledge of ..
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  6. Sentience and behaviour.Robert Kirk - 1974 - Mind 83 (January):43-60.
  7. Zombies.Robert Kirk - 2003 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
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    Consciousness and Concepts.Robert Kirk & Peter Carruthers - 1992 - Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 66 (1):23-60.
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    Raw Feeling.Joseph Levine & Robert Kirk - 1996 - Philosophical Review 105 (1):94.
    Kirk’s aim in this book is to bridge what he calls “the intelligibility gap,” expressed in the question, “How could complex patterns of neural firing amount to this?”. He defends a position that he describes as “broadly functionalist,” which consists of several theses. I will briefly review them.
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  10. Zombies v. Materialists.Robert Kirk & Roger Squires - 1974 - Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 48:135-163.
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    Recovering The Principles of Humane Experimental Technique: The 3Rs and the Human Essence of Animal Research.Robert G. W. Kirk - 2018 - Science, Technology, and Human Values 43 (4):622-648.
    The 3Rs, or the replacement, reduction, and refinement of animal research, are widely accepted as the best approach to maximizing high-quality science while ensuring the highest standard of ethical consideration is applied in regulating the use of animals in scientific procedures. This contrasts with the muted scientific interest in the 3Rs when they were first proposed in The Principles of Humane Experimental Technique. Indeed, the relative success of the 3Rs has done little to encourage engagement with their original text, which (...)
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    Science, Culture, and Care in Laboratory Animal Research: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the History and Future of the 3Rs.Robert G. W. Kirk, Pru Hobson-West, Beth Greenhough & Gail Davies - 2018 - Science, Technology, and Human Values 43 (4):603-621.
    The principles of the 3Rs—replacement, refinement, and reduction—strongly shape discussion of methods for performing more humane animal research and the regulation of this contested area of technoscience. This special issue looks back to the origins of the 3Rs principles through five papers that explore how it is enacted and challenged in practice and that develop critical considerations about its future. Three themes connect the papers in this special issue. These are the multiplicity of roles enacted by those who use and (...)
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    Working across species down on the farm: Howard S. Liddell and the development of comparative psychopathology, c. 1923–1962.Robert G. W. Kirk & Edmund Ramsden - 2018 - History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 40 (1):24.
    Seeking a scientific basis for understanding and treating mental illness, and inspired by the work of Ivan Pavlov, American physiologists, psychiatrists and psychologists in the 1920s turned to nonhuman animals. This paper examines how new constructs such as “experimental neurosis” emerged as tools to enable psychiatric comparison across species. From 1923 to 1962, the Cornell “Behavior Farm” was a leading interdisciplinary research center pioneering novel techniques to experimentally study nonhuman psychopathology. Led by the psychobiologist Howard Liddell, work at the Behavior (...)
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    A Brave New Animal for a Brave New World: The British Laboratory Animals Bureau and the Constitution of International Standards of Laboratory Animal Production and Use, circa 1947–1968.Robert Kirk - 2010 - Isis 101 (1):62-94.
  15. The inconceivability of zombies.Robert Kirk - 2008 - Philosophical Studies 139 (1):73-89.
    If zombies were conceivable in the sense relevant to the ‘conceivability argument’ against physicalism, a certain epiphenomenalistic conception of consciousness—the ‘e-qualia story’—would also be conceivable. But the e-qualia story is not conceivable because it involves a contradiction. The non-physical ‘e-qualia’ supposedly involved could not perform cognitive processing, which would therefore have to be performed by physical processes; and these could not put anyone into ‘epistemic contact’ with e-qualia, contrary to the e-qualia story. Interactionism does not enable zombists to escape these (...)
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    ‘Wanted—standard guinea pigs’: standardisation and the experimental animal market in Britain ca. 1919–1947.Robert G. W. Kirk - 2008 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 39 (3):280-291.
    In 1942 a coalition of twenty scientific societies formed the Conference on the Supply of Experimental Animals in an attempt to pressure the Medical Research Council to accept responsibility for the provision of standardised experimental animals in Britain. The practice of animal experimentation was subject to State regulation under the Cruelty to Animals Act of 1876, but no provision existed for the provision of animals for experimental use. Consequently, day-to-day laboratory work was reliant on a commercial small animal market which (...)
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    Strict implication, supervenience, and physicalism.Robert Kirk - 1996 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 74 (2):244-57.
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    The Conceptual Link From Physical to Mental.Robert Kirk - 2013 - Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    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.
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  19. Physicalism and strict implication.Robert Kirk - 2006 - Synthese 151 (3):523-536.
    Suppose P is the conjunction of all truths statable in the austere vocabulary of an ideal physics. Then phsicalists are likely to accept that any truths not included in P are different ways of talking about the reality specified by P. This ‘redescription thesis’ can be made clearer by means of the ‘strict implication thesis’, according to which inconsistency or incoherence are involved in denying the implication from P to interesting truths not included in it, such as truths about phenomenal (...)
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    Translation Determined.Robert Kirk - 1988 - Philosophical Review 97 (3):447-449.
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    Relativism and Reality: A Contemporary Introduction.Robert Kirk - 1999 - New York: Routledge.
    Our thoughts about the world are clearly influenced by such things as point of view, temperament, past experience and culture. However, some thinkers go much further and argue that everything that exists depends on us, arguing that 'even reality is relative'. Can we accept such a claim in the face of events such as floods and other natural disasters or events seemingly beyond our control? 'Realists' argue that reality is independent of out thinking. 'Relativists' disagree, arguing that what there is (...)
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    Building Transnational Bodies: Norway and the International Development of Laboratory Animal Science, ca. 1956–1980.Tone Druglitrø & Robert G. W. Kirk - 2014 - Science in Context 27 (2):333-357.
    ArgumentThis article adopts a historical perspective to examine the development of Laboratory Animal Science and Medicine, an auxiliary field which formed to facilitate the work of the biomedical sciences by systematically improving laboratory animal production, provision, and maintenance in the post Second World War period. We investigate how Laboratory Animal Science and Medicine co-developed at the local level (responding to national needs and concerns) yet was simultaneously transnational in orientation (responding to the scientific need that knowledge, practices, objects and animals (...)
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    Problems in Philosophy: the Limits of Inquiry.Robert Kirk - 1996 - Philosophical Quarterly 46 (182):117-119.
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    A result on propositional logics having the disjunction property.Robert E. Kirk - 1982 - Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 23 (1):71-74.
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  25. The inaugural address: Why there couldn't be zombies.Robert Kirk - 1999 - Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 73 (1):1–16.
    Philosophical zombies are exactly as physicalists suppose we are, right down to the tiniest details, but they have no conscious experiences. Are such things even logically possible? My aim is to contribute to showing not only that the answer is 'No', but why. My strategy has two prongs: a fairly brisk argument which demolishes the zombie idea; followed by an attempt to throw light on how something can qualify as a conscious perceiver. The argument to show that zombies are impossible (...)
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  26. Indeterminacy of translation.Robert Kirk - 2004 - In Roger F. Gibson (ed.), The Cambridge companion to Quine. New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 151--180.
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    Nonreductive physicalism and strict implication.Robert Kirk - 2001 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 79 (4):544-552.
    I have argued that a strong kind of physicalism based on the strict implication thesis can consistently reject both eliminativism and reductionism (in any nontrivial sense). This piece defends that position against objections from Andrew Melnyk, who claims that either my formulation doesn't entail physicalism, or it must be interpreted in such a way that the mental is after all reducible to the physical. His alternatives depend on two interesting assumptions. I argue that both are mistaken, thereby, making this kind (...)
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    Mind and Body.Robert Kirk - 2003 - Chesham, Bucks: Mcgill-Queen's University Press.
    In Mind and Body Robert Kirk offers an introduction to the complex tangle of questions and puzzles roughly labelled the mind-body problem.
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    Zapping the Zombie Idea.Robert Kirk - 2005 - In Zombies and Consciousness. Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press UK.
    Although the zombie idea seems to fit in with some ‘natural and plain’ intuitions, it conflicts with others. Reinforced by the ‘jacket fallacy’, it both feeds on and feeds an incoherent conception of phenomenal consciousness. The ‘sole-pictures argument’ shows that a certain variety of epiphenomenalism is inconceivable in the relevant sense. Then it is argued that if zombies are conceivable, so is that kind of epiphenomenalism. If the reasoning is sound, the inconceivability of zombies follows. Among other corollaries of the (...)
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  30. Why shouldn't we be able to solve the mind-body problem?Robert Kirk - 1991 - Analysis 51 (1):17-23.
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    From physical explicability to full-blooded materialism.Robert Kirk - 1979 - Philosophical Quarterly 29 (July):229-37.
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    (1 other version)Goodbye to transposed qualia.Robert Kirk - 1982 - Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 82:33-44.
    Robert Kirk; III*—Goodbye to Transposed Qualia, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 82, Issue 1, 1 June 1982, Pages 33–44, https://doi.org/10.1093/a.
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  33. More on Quine's Reasons for Indeterminacy of Translation.Robert Kirk - 1977 - Analysis 37 (3):136 - 141.
  34. How physicalists can avoid reductionism.Robert Kirk - 1996 - Synthese 108 (2):157-70.
    Kim maintains that a physicalist has only two genuine options, eliminativism and reductionism. But physicalists can reject both by using the Strict Implication thesis (SI). Discussing his arguments will help to show what useful work SI can do.(1) His discussion of anomalous monism depends on an unexamined assumption to the effect that SI is false.
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    (1 other version)Physicalism lives.Robert Kirk - 1996 - Ratio 9 (1):85-89.
  36. (1 other version)Relativism and Reality.Robert Kirk - 2000 - Mind 109 (434):377-380.
     
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    Translation and Indeterminacy.Robert Kirk - 1969 - Mind 78:321.
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    XIII*—The Trouble with Ultra-Externalism.Robert Kirk - 19934 - Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 94:293-308.
    Robert Kirk; XIII*—The Trouble with Ultra-Externalism, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 94, Issue 1, 1 June 1994, Pages 293–308, https://doi.org/.
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    Robots, zombies and us: understanding consciousness.Robert Kirk - 2017 - New York, NY, USA: Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, Plc.
    Could robots be genuinely intelligent? Could they be conscious? Could there be zombies? Prompted by these questions Robert Kirk introduces the main problems of consciousness and sets out a new approach to solving them. He starts by discussing behaviourism, Turing's test of intelligence and Searle's famous Chinese Room argument, and goes on to examine dualism – the idea that consciousness requires something beyond the physical – together with its opposite, physicalism. Probing the idea of zombies, he concludes they are logically (...)
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    Belief and Meaning: The Unity and Locality of Mental Content.Robert Kirk - 1994 - Philosophical Quarterly 44 (174):115-117.
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    Circulating bodies: human-animal movements in science and medicine.Dmitriy Myelnikov, Robert G. W. Kirk & Sabina Leonelli - 2023 - History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 45 (1):1-7.
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    A Characterization of the Classes of Finite Tree Frames Which are Adequate for the Intuitionistic Logic.Robert E. Kirk - 1980 - Mathematical Logic Quarterly 26 (32-33):497-501.
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    How is consciousness possible?Robert Kirk - 1995 - In Thomas Metzinger (ed.), Conscious Experience. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schoningh. pp. 391--408.
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    Mental machinery and Godel.Robert Kirk - 1986 - Synthese 66 (March):437-452.
  45. Physicalism, identity, and strict implication.Robert Kirk - 1982 - Ratio (Misc.) 24 (December):131-41.
     
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  46. Reply to Don Locke on zombies and materialism.Robert Kirk - 1977 - Mind 86 (April):262-4.
  47. Zapping the zombies.Robert Kirk - 2006 - Think 5 (13):47-58.
    In the philosophy of mind, zombies often make an appearance. It seems we can conceive of zombies — beings physically exactly like ourselves but lacking conscious experience. There may not actually be any zombies, of course. But the suggestion that they could exist does at least seem to make sense. Or does it? Robert Kirk investigates.
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  48. Index of volume 79, 2001.Stephen Buckle, Miracles Marvels, Mundane Order, Temporal Solipsism, Robert Kirk, Nonreductive Physicalism, Strict Implication, Donald Mertz Individuation, Instance Ontology & Dale E. Miller - 2001 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 79 (4):594-596.
     
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    Armstrong's analogue of introspection.Robert Kirk - 1971 - Philosophical Quarterly 21 (April):158-62.
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    (1 other version)A Complete Semantics for Implicational Logics.Robert E. Kirk - 1981 - Mathematical Logic Quarterly 27 (23‐24):381-383.
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