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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... Phenomenal Basis of Intentionality (Oxford UP, 2018). Hedda Hassel Mørch is associate professor of philosophy at Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences. She was previously a postdoc at Center for Mind, Brain and Consciousness at ...
... phenomenal blending, some devise a notion of phenomenal bonding and some develop the idea that primitive experiential aspects 'fuse' into new forms, superceding the originals. It is also possible to re-orient the problem by adopting a ...
... phenomenal features or comprise non-phenomenal features as well and also on whether mental features are substances, or objects, or properties or some entirely new kind of thing hypothesised by physicists or contemplated by ...
... phenomenal/phenomenal gap which would be the most serious combination problem threatening panprotopsychist views. 1. Sautra ̄ntika-Yoga ̄ca ̄ra Model of Consciousness The Sautrāntika-Yogācāra is part of the Indian Abhidharma tradition ...
... phenomenal character of experience, it admits the joint contribution of sensation and conceptualisation in the constitution of experience, it acknowledges that experience is, as it were, saturated with affect, that appraisal is built ...
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 |