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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... Ontological Argument: A Neoclassical Theistic Response (Cambridge UP, 2006). Philip Goff is a philosopher and consciousness researcher at Durham University and author of Galileo's Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness ...
... ontological priority to body, a priority that is found in the Epinomis as well. (On the authenticity of the Epinomis as an epilogue to Plato's Laws, see Crombie 1962: 12,329.) For metaphysical or cosmological purposes, psyche is used by ...
... ontological argument (see Dombrowski 2006). That is, if God's existence is not contingent in Plato, then not only are the forms envisaged by divine soul, they could not lack this status. Both the forms and God are everlasting on Plato's ...
... Ontological Argument: A Neoclassical Theistic Response. New York: Cambridge University Press. Griffin, David Ray (1998). Unsnarling the World Knot: Consciousness, Freedom, and the Mind-Body Problem. Berkeley: University of California ...
... ontological limitations on sorts of things that constitute the basic furniture of the world. Panpsychism as a prominent example of the liberal naturalist approach has the license to introduce a different kind of metaphysics to replace ...
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 |