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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... Mean? A Prolegomenon to Physicalist Panpsychism Galen Strawson Strawson on Panpsychism Terry Horgan Idealism and the Mind-Body Problem David Chalmers Index 230 243 245 259 269 285 303 317 340 353 374 CONTRIBUTORS ...
... mean that everything is conscious. Whether a particular non-fundamental entity is conscious will depend upon the ... means) might be thought a necessary condition for consciousness'. On the minimal conception, consciousness does not at ...
... means we have lost any viable positive conception of the fundamental nature of matter. What we are left with is ... mean that quantum field particle states are reflecting about their own existence, enjoying a rich inner life akin to ...
... been finding out, in some new light, the true meaning that was latent in old traditions. . . . Revision does not mean mere destruction. (1908: 11) When the questions are asked, how can experience arise out 15 2 Plato and Panpsychism.
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 |