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. |
From inside the book
... perspective, which makes it a book of reference indispensable for anyone interested in the field. A great read and an inspiring contribution to the philosophical debate about the nature of consciousness.” Jiri Benovsky, University of ...
... Perspective Steven Horst Neutral Monism Reborn: Breaking the Gridlock Between Emergence and Inherence Michael Silberstein Panpsychism and Non-standard Materialism: Some Comparative Remarks Daniel Stoljar 78 87 103 117 119 131 144 157 ...
... Perspectives on Panpsychism (Ontos, 2011). David Bourget is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Centre for ... perspective. Daniel Dombrowski is in the Philosophy Department of Seattle University. viii Notes on Contributors.
... Perspectives on Quantum Physics. Dordrecht: Kluwer. James, William (1890/1950). The Principles of Psychology, vol. 1. New York: Henry Holt and Co. (Reprinted in 1950, New York: Dover, ed.X. (Page references to the Dover edition.)). Joos ...
... Perspectives on Russellian Monism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015, pp. 161–208. Strawson, Galen (2006). 'Realistic Monism: Why Physicalism Entails Panpsychism'. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 13 (10–11): 3–31. (Reprinted in A ...
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 |