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Robert Kirk
Emeritus Professor. Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences
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Biography
Robert Kirk is Emeritus Professor in the Department. His main interests are consciousness, physicalism, and intentionality. He is also known for his work on Quine's doctrine of the indeterminacy of translation. His publications include Translation Determined (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986), Raw Feeling (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994, paperback 1996), Relativism and Reality (London and New York: Routledge, 1999), Mind and Body (Chesham: Acumen, 2003), Zombies and Consciousness (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2005; Paperback edition 2007), The Conceptual Link from Physical to Mental (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), Robots, Zombies and Us: understanding consciousness (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017). Zombies and Consciousness to some extent atones for his error in having defended the possibility of zombies in articles in 1974. (For more about zombies see his entry in the online Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy at: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/zombies/.) He is currently working on a book provisionally entitled The Minds of Hominins: philosophical arguments.