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40Goodbye to transposed qualiaProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 82 33-44. 1982.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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97George Botterill and Peter Carruthers the philosophy of psychologyBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science 52 (1): 159-162. 2001.
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53From physical explicability to full-blooded materialismPhilosophical Quarterly 29 (July): 229-37. 1979.
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63Consciousness Reconsidered.Raw Feeling: a Philosophical Account of the Essence of ConsciousnessPhilosophical Quarterly 46 (184): 417-421. 1996.
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12Circulating bodies: human-animal movements in science and medicineHistory and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 45 (1): 1-7. 2023.
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139Review: Consciousness: Essays from a Higher-Order Perspective (review)Mind 115 (460): 1107-1110. 2006.
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17Robots, zombies and us: understanding consciousnessBloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing, Plc. 2017.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…Read more
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Knowing sentient subjects : humane experimental technique and the constitution of care and knowledge in laboratory animal scienceIn Kristin Asdal & Tone Druglitrø (eds.), Humans, Animals and Biopolitics: The More-Than-Human Condition, Routledge. 2016.
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14Governance, expertise, and the ‘culture of care’: The changing constitutions of laboratory animal research in Britain, 1876–2000Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 93 107-122. 2022.
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4“Havens of mercy”: health, medical research, and the governance of the movement of dogs in twentieth-century AmericaHistory and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 43 (4): 1-32. 2021.This article argues that the movement of dogs from pounds to medical laboratories played a critically important role in debates over the use of animals in science and medicine in the United States in the twentieth century, not least by drawing the scientific community into every greater engagement with bureaucratic political governance. If we are to understand the unique characteristics of the American federal legislation that emerges in the 1960s, we need to understand the long and protracted d…Read more
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9Science, Culture, and Care in Laboratory Animal Research: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the History and Future of the 3RsScience, Technology, and Human Values 43 (4): 603-621. 2018.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 …Read more
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13Recovering The Principles of Humane Experimental Technique: The 3Rs and the Human Essence of Animal ResearchScience, Technology, and Human Values 43 (4): 622-648. 2018.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 engage…Read more
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18Physicalism: The Philosophical FoundationsPhilosophical Review 105 (1): 92. 1996.How should we conceive of physicalism? Does it have to involve more than some kind of supervenience, or must it be reductionist or even eliminativist? Does it commit you to the psychophysical identity theory? Does it entail that all events are explicable in terms of physics? And what is to count as the physical—indeed, what is to count as physics? Jeffrey Poland offers well-argued answers to several of these questions, and a solidly constructed framework in terms of which we may reasonably aim t…Read more
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114The inaugural address: Why there couldn't be zombiesAristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 73 (1). 1999.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 exploits the…Read more
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David J. Chalmers, The Conscious Mind (review)Journal of Consciousness Studies 3 (5-6): 522-522. 1996.
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46Consciousness and the Limits of Objectivity: the Case for Subjective Physicalism, by Robert J. Howell: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013, pp. x + 190, £30.00 (review)Australasian Journal of Philosophy 92 (4): 794-797. 2014.
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44Working across species down on the farm: Howard S. Liddell and the development of comparative psychopathology, c. 1923–1962History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 40 (1): 24. 2018.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 nonh…Read more
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154Raw Feeling: A Philosophical Account of the Essence of ConsciousnessOxford University Press. 1994.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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16Building Transnational Bodies: Norway and the International Development of Laboratory Animal Science, ca. 1956–1980Science in Context 27 (2): 333-357. 2014.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…Read more
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45'Wanted—standard guinea pigs': Standardisation and the experimental animal market in Britain ca. 1919–1947Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 39 (3): 280-291. 2008.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 …Read more
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15‘Wanted—standard guinea pigs’: standardisation and the experimental animal market in Britain ca. 1919–1947Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 39 (3): 280-291. 2008.
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