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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... qualities of the states and processes which go to make up the material world' (Lockwood 1989: 159). The fact that very simple physical systems do not exhibit complex behavior should not be surprising but it's hardly clear that this ...
... qualities are taken into consideration: soul has one foot in the eidetic realm of changeless forms and one foot in the instantial camp of dynamic nature. Only soul has the right sort of contact to link up both the forms and ubiquitous ...
... qualities of the pixels, together with facts about the spatial arrangement of the pixels. However, I want to steer away from Humean supervenience in offering a reconstruction of conscious experiences for two reasons: (a) dharmas are not ...
... qualities that constitute aroma, color, warmth, and so on. These sensible qualities horizontally cause contiguous corresponding (aroma, color, warmth, etc.) dharmas in the next moment. At the same time they vertically cause processes in ...
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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 |