Wilson Mendonça

Scrutiny of the Two-Dimensional Argument against Physicalism

Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology October 11, 2023 Wilson Mendonça, Julia Telles de Menezes

Chalmers’s two-dimensional argument against materialism (aka the zombie argument) is arguably the most ingenious attempt to ground a view about fundamental reality on epistemic considerations. From the conceivability of a being that is physically identical to a conscious being but that is deprived of phenomenal consciousness (a zombie), the argument draws on the interplay of the primary and the...