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According to Wikipedia, Robert Kirk is a British philosopher. He is emeritus professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Nottingham. Kirk is best known for his work on philosophical zombies—putatively unconscious beings physically and behaviourally identical to human beings. Although Kirk did not invent this idea, he introduced the term zombie in his 1974 papers "Sentience and Behaviour" and "Zombies v. Materialists". In the latter he offered a formulation of physicalism that aimed to make clear that if zombies are possible, physicalism is false: an argument that was not much noticed until David Chalmers's development of it in The Conscious Mind. Kirk himself had reversed his position earlier, and has argued against the zombie idea in a number of books and articles on physicalism and consciousness.

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Language, Thought, and Other Biological Categories (1985) (1958)
CONVENTION: A PHILOSOPHICAL STUDY (1970) (1708)
A Study of Concepts (1994) (594)
Zombies v. Materialists (1974) (154)
Zombies and consciousness (2005) (110)
The Origin of the Australians (1976) (95)
Problems in Philosophy: the Limits of Inquiry. (1993) (88)
Physicalism: The Philosophical Foundations (1994) (77)
Sentience and Behaviour (1974) (59)
Consciousness and Concepts (1992) (58)
Reasons and Experience (1992) (32)
The Conceptual Link from Physical to Mental (2013) (26)
Consciousness Reconsidered.Raw Feeling: a Philosophical Account of the Essence of Consciousness (1994) (23)
Strict implication, supervenience and physicalism (1996) (22)
Subject, Thought, and Context (1988) (21)
The rise in acute medical admissions. (2000) (21)
Why there Couldn’t be Zombies (1999) (17)
The inconceivability of zombies (2008) (17)
«The best set of tools»? Dennett's metaphors and the mind-body problem (1993) (17)
Belief and Meaning: The Unity and Locality of Mental Content. (1995) (17)
How physicalists can avoid reductionism (1996) (15)
Indeterminacy of Translation (2004) (13)
Underdetermination of theory and indeterminacy of translation (1973) (9)
THE GENETICS OF DIABETES MELLlTUS (1986) (9)
From Physical Explicability to Full-Blooded Materialism (1979) (8)
I.—TRANSLATION AND INDETERMINACY (1969) (7)
More on Quine's reasons for indeterminacy of translation (1977) (7)
A Proposal for the Future. (1969) (6)
Mind and Body (2003) (6)
Nonreductive Physicalism and Strict Implication (2001) (5)
What Has To Be Done (2005) (5)
V.—RATIONALITY WITHOUT LANGUAGE1 (1967) (5)
Why shouldn't we be able to solve the mind-body problem? (1991) (4)
The trouble with ultra-externalism (1994) (4)
Genetic distance--a pragmatic approach (1977) (4)
Physicalism and strict implication (2006) (4)
Mental machinery and Gödel (1986) (4)
III—Goodbye to Transposed Qualia (1982) (3)
Reply to Don Locke on Zombies and Materialism (1977) (3)
Why ultra-externalism goes too far (1996) (2)
Consciousness, information, and external relations (1997) (2)
On three alleged rivals to homophonic translation (1982) (2)
Quinean indeterminacy and forcing (1983) (1)
Gap? What Gap? (2005) (1)
GEORGE BOTTERILL AND PETER CARRUTHERS The Philosophy of Psychology (2001) (1)
The genetics of diabetes mellitus. (1986) (1)
MARGINS OF PRECISION: ESSAYS IN LOGIC AND LANGUAGE (1971) (1)
Davidson and indeterminacy of translation (1985) (1)
Sentience, causation and some robots (1986) (1)
Zapping the zombies (2006) (1)
The Character of Mind (2009) (1)
G.P.13.10 Early cardiomyopathy in DMD (2009) (1)
EMPIRICISM AND THE ANALYTIC‐SYNTHETIC DISTINCTION (1973) (1)
The Gap has been Bridged (1996) (1)
The Consciousness Paradox: Consciousness, Concepts and Higher-Order ThoughtsBy Rocco J. Gennaro (2013) (1)
XIII—The Trouble with Ultra-Externalism (1994) (1)
Professor Tage Kemp (1964) (1)
Hip joint excision (1)
Review: Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2002) (0)
Zombies and Minimal Physicalism (2005) (0)
Mind and Body: Conclusion (2003) (0)
Indeterminacy of interpretation, idealization, and norms (1993) (0)
A priori versus redescriptive physicalism (2013) (0)
De-sophisticating the Framework (2005) (0)
A posteriori physicalism—but not as we know it (2013) (0)
QUINE'S INDETERMINACY THESIS (1969) (0)
Phenomenal truths are entailed logico-conceptually, but not a priori (2013) (0)
Why there couldn't be zombies (1999) (0)
Review: Consciousness: Essays from a Higher-Order Perspective (2006) (0)
The Character of Raw Feeling (1996) (0)
Consciousness and the Limits of Objectivity: the Case for Subjective Physicalism, by Robert J. Howell (2014) (0)
Mind and Body: Some objections to physicalism (2003) (0)
REPLY TO GOFF ON PHYSICALISM (2008) (0)
Redescription and logico-conceptual entailment (2013) (0)
Aiding the Third World (1967) (0)
Mind and Body: Functionalism (2003) (0)
Biochemical and genetic screening in isolated and familial MEN1 (2004) (0)
High prevalence of MODY type diabetes in South India (1984) (0)
Strict Implication and the Swiss Cheese Principle (1996) (0)
Mind and Body: Behaviourism (2003) (0)
Is the Notion Sound (1996) (0)
Mind and Body: References (2003) (0)
Mind and Body: Introduction: are we just machines? (2003) (0)
Psycho-physical identity and functionalism (2013) (0)
Hypercholesterolemia in a GSD III patient with a novel genotype (2010) (0)
Zapping the Zombie Idea (2005) (0)
Armstrong’s Analogue of Introspection (1971) (0)
Logico-conceptual entailment and other notions (2013) (0)
[Not Available]. (1947) (0)
Sugihara : conspiracy of kindness (2005) (0)
The Case for Zombies (2005) (0)
IV. Notice of stations for Rare Plants near Edinburgh (0)
Mind and Body: More about thinking (2003) (0)
Mind and Body: Websites (2003) (0)
Raw Feeling and the Intelligibility Gap (1996) (0)
Misconceptions of Mind and Freedom (1985) (0)
Mind and Body: Preface (2003) (0)
Redescription, reduction, and mental causation (2013) (0)
Mind and Body: More about feeling (2003) (0)
Physicalism and Phenomenal Consciousness (2008) (0)
The British Laboratory Week. (1990) (0)
Mind and Body: Is there something extra? (2003) (0)
Mind and Body: Physicalism (2003) (0)
English and the Arts (1967) (0)
On excision of the hip joint (0)
Representation: Readings in the Philosophy of Mental Representation (Philosophical Studies Series 40) (1992) (0)
Language and Necessity (1962) (0)

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