The Routledge Handbook of PanpsychismWilliam Seager Panpsychism is the view that consciousness – the most puzzling and strangest phenomenon in the entire universe – is a fundamental and ubiquitous feature of the world, though in a form very remote from human consciousness. At a very basic level, the world is awake. Panpsychism seems implausible to most, and yet it has experienced a remarkable renaissance of interest over the last quarter century. The reason is the stubbornly intractable problem of consciousness. Despite immense progress in understanding the brain and its relation to states of consciousness, we still really have no idea how consciousness emerges from physical processes which are presumed to be entirely non-conscious. The Routledge Handbook of Panpsychism provides a high-level comprehensive examination and assessment of the subject – its history and contemporary development. It offers 28 chapters, appearing in print here for the first time, from the world’s leading researchers on panpsychism. The chapters are divided into four sections that integrate panpsychism’s relevance with important issues in philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, metaphysics, and even ethics:
The volume will be useful to students and scholars as both an introduction and as cutting-edge philosophical engagement with the subject. For anyone interested in a philosophical approach to panpsychism, the Handbook will supply fascinating and enlightening reading. The topics covered are highly diverse, representing a spectrum of views on the nature of mind and world from various standpoints which take panpsychism seriously. |
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... approach to panpsychism, the Handbook will supply fascinating and enlightening reading. The topics covered are highly diverse, representing a spectrum of views on the nature of mind and world from various standpoints which take ...
... Approach to the Mind-Body Problem David Bourget PART III Comparative Alternatives 16 17 18 19 Subjective Physicalism and Panpsychism Robert J. Howell Panpsychism: A Cognitive Pluralist Perspective Steven Horst Neutral Monism Reborn ...
... approach to things, the handbook should supply fascinating and enlightening reading. As noted, the topics covered ... approaches such as subjective physicalism and cognitive pluralism, as well as the better known alternatives of neutral ...
... hunches, presentiments, and feelings that the subject (apparently) sincerely believes to exist in his or her (or its) stream of consciousness. (Dennett 1991: 98) The basic problem with this approach, as I see it, 7 Introduction.
William Seager. The basic problem with this approach, as I see it, is that it fairly obviously has a tacit dependence ... approaches to the combination problem (see many of the papers in Brüntrup and Jaskolla 2016, especially Chalmers ...
Contents
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Part II Forms of Panpsychism | 117 |
Part III Comparative Alternatives | 181 |
Part IV How Does Panpsychism Work? | 243 |
Index | 374 |