Philosophical zombie

Zombie argument against physicalism Within the academic realm of philosophy, it is understood that zombies are more or less, imaginary creatures, and their main purpose is to shed light on many problems that philosophy aims to investigate. Needless to say, these unsolved issues are primarily related to consciousness, as well as its relation to our physical world. Compared with those in magic or movies, zombies are just like humans in every material aspect but without conscious experiments.…

Would you kill your loved one if they turned into a zombie and tried to bite you? People survive by killing zombies in “The Walking Dead”, tributes battle their way you the top to win in “The Hunger Games”, and the divergent try to fit into society while also battling and killing others in “Insurgent”. Sometimes, people go to great lengths in order to survive when they are in dangerous situations. Making alliances, stealing, killing, and eating other people are some of the things that's the…

move from the barbaric sense to the rebellion against it. I agree with her view that the zombie is used to highlight racism, slavery, and the progression since then. In the beginning of the article, McAlister uses current events to grab her audience attention using the presidential debate between Barack Obama and John McCain. The meme she uses shows McCain doing a full body grimace that was related to how a zombie would act and Obama acting cool. It is here that she gives us the slang meaning of…

Within the past decade, zombie movies have become a fad. It all began with the original Night of the Living Dead and cruised into the more current ones like World War Z and The Walking Dead. These movies and shows have taken horror and gore to the next level, but if you are looking for that scary, dreadful, and nail biting zombie movie that everyone loves, I would suggest looking elsewhere. A Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse is a movie about 3 high school scouts who plan an…

Determining whether zombies are real or not is a hard decision considering every culture definition of a zombie is different. When talking about zombies, I think about the modern-day zombie. Flesh eating, rotting corpse, unable to function as a human being is what comes to my mind. Zombies like The Walking Dead and 28 Days Later. They are alike by representing someone who is bitten by another zombie then turns into one within a couple of hours, and there is no way returning to normal. This is…

I believe that God allows evil to exist for reasons that we do not understand, but I also believe that he was not the one who created it. I believe that God created man, and that man created evil. According to the bible, God The reason as to why God allows evil may never be known, but others have arrived at the conclusion that God must want to teach people a lesson. Another theory is that he literally cannot or will not do anything to stop evil from happening because he gave us free will.…

Descartes has written six meditations on First Philosophy, with some being more important than the other. The third meditation does seem to stand out among the rest as the most important. The goal of this meditation is to find out if there is a God and whether or not God is a deceiver. After reading the third meditation, you take a step back to realize the importance of what the meditation had uncovered. There are different types of Ideas, which might not seem so important to the whole…

Many wonder what is the root of all evil and most conclude that people are simply innately evil or have a darkness in them that is waiting to show itself. The topic of evil and where it really comes from has caused a debate among many people who take a variety of stances. One such person, William Golding, writes a novel called Lord of the Flies to display his position on the topic of evil. Through his character’s in Lord of the Flies, Golding conveys his opinion that humans are born with natural…

In Boethius’s second commentary on Porphyry’s Isagoge he discusses and attempts to answer some of the questions Porphyry poses in his work. These questions have according to Boethius “been attempted by learned men, but have not been solved by many of them” (20). The questions were whether or not Universals are subsistent or only in understanding, if they are subsistent are they corporeal or incorporeal in nature, and finally if they are separate from or component in the objects they classify. In…

A person’s identity is something that is very personal and is hard to describe and express to other people. Some people prefer to be identified by their physical characteristics, whereas others would rather be identified by their personality and how they are as a person. Knowing the difference between the two is one of the hardest things to do when you first meet someone. The same thing applies to art when trying to capture the identity of the artist. One’s identity can be defined by their…