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RETURN OF THE ZOMBIES

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 December 2010

Ardon Lyon
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We're back! Actually, we've never been away, so what I really mean is that my fellow zombies and I are, I hope, about to announce to the world that we're here! It's true I haven't yet asked anyone else to agree to expose themselves as I am now doing, but I'm hoping that my own public outing will encourage, or perhaps even shame others to come forward and join me.

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Research Article
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Think , Volume 10 , Issue 27 , Spring 2011 , pp. 9 - 29
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 2011

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Notes

1 I am extremely grateful to my friend and ex-colleague Peter Cave for reading and criticizing earlier drafts of this paper, and to my son Douglas for giving me Wade Davis's fascinating and terrifying book The Serpent and the Rainbow (NY: Simon & Schuster, 1985)Google Scholar which describes his research into Haitian zombies together with a good deal of the appalling history of that country.

2 Beenfeldt, Christian, ‘A wake up call … A Review of Daniel Dennett's Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness’, Think 19 (Summer 2008), p. 85CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

3 Kirk, Robert, ‘Zapping the Zombies’, Think 13 (Summer 2006), pp. 47–58CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

4 Wisdom, John, Other Minds (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1952)Google Scholar.