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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... Silberstein Panpsychism and Non-standard Materialism: Some Comparative Remarks Daniel Stoljar 78 87 103 117 119 131 144 157 168 181 183 192 204 218 20 Panpsychism and Russellian Monism Torin Alter and Sam Coleman vi Contents.
... standard physicalism.10 The first is emergentism. Like the word 'consciousness', the term 'emergence' is fraught with ambiguity. The minimal sense of the notion is simply that of a system having properties which are not possessed by its ...
... standards, I am always able to see . . . that at best I have 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 ...
... standard, but I think it will prove to be useful. The term 'mental features' is suitably ambiguous: it is neutral on whether mental features are restricted to phenomenal features or comprise non-phenomenal features as well and also on ...
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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 |