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. |
From inside the book
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... Cognitive Pluralist Perspective Steven Horst Neutral Monism Reborn: Breaking the Gridlock Between Emergence and Inherence Michael Silberstein Panpsychism and Non-standard Materialism: Some Comparative Remarks Daniel Stoljar 78 87 103 ...
... cognition and the ethics of AI, as well as the thought of William James. Pierfrancesco Basile is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Bern and at the KSA Luzern, Switzerland. His last book is Whitehead's Metaphysics of Power ...
... cognitive science, metaphysics, epistemology, and metaethics. Steven Horst is Professor of Philosophy at Wesleyan University. He is the author of four books, including Beyond Reduction (Oxford UP, 2007), Laws, Mind, and Free Will (MIT ...
... cognition and the metaphysics of consciousness. His new book, *Combining Minds* (Oxford UP, 2019), address the combination problem for panpsychism. William Seager is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto Scarborough. His ...
... cognitive pluralism, as well as the better known alternatives of neutral monism and the modern rebirth of Russellian monism. In the final section, the chapters provide a variety of viewpoints on how panpsychism would or could actually ...
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 |