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Recent debates in philosophy of mind seemingly have resulted in an impasse. Reductive physicalism cannot account for the phenomenal mind, and nonreductive physicalism cannot safeguard a causal role for the mental as mental. Dualism was formerly considered to be the only viable alternative, but in addition to exacerbating the problem of mental causation, it is hard to square with a naturalist evolutionary framework.
By 1979, Thomas Nagel argued that if reductionism and dualism fail, and a non-reductionist form of strong emergence cannot be made intelligible, then panpsychism-the thesis that mental being is a fundamental and ubiquitous feature of the universe-might be a viable alternative. But it was not until David Chalmers' The Conscious Mind in 1996 that debates on panpsychism entered the philosophical mainstream. Since then the field has been growing rapidly, and some leading philosophers of mind as well as scientist have argued in favor of panpsychism.
This book features contemporary arguments for panpsychism as a genuine alternative in analytic philosophy of mind in the 21st century. Different varieties of panpsychism are represented and systematically related to each other in the volume's 16 essays, which feature not only proponents of panpsychism but also prominent critics from both the physicalist and non-physicalist camps.
Contents
Contributors
Introduction Godehard Bruntrup and Ludwig Jaskolla
The Logical Place of Panpsychism
Panpsychism and Panprotopsychism David Chalmers
Emergent Panpsychism Godehard Bruntrup
The Varieties of Panpsychistic Ontologies
Mind and Being: The Primacy of Panpsychism Galen Strawson
Panpsychism and Priority Cosmopsychism Yujin Nagasawa and Khai Wager
In Search of Mentons: Panpsychism, Physicalism and the Missing Link Berit Brogaard
Land Ho? We are Close to a Synoptic Understanding of Consciousness Gregg Rosenberg
The Combination Problem for Panpsychism
The Combination Problem for Panpsychism David Chalmers
What Combination Problem? Barbara Gail Montero
Panpsychist Infusion William Seager
Panpsychism and Neutral Monism: How to Make up One's Mind Sam Coleman
The Phenomenal Bonding Solution to the Combination Problem Philip Goff
Panpsychism and its Alternatives
Mind Dust, Magic, or a Conceptual Gap Only?Brian McLaughlin
Emergence and Panpsychism Achim Stephan
Neutral Monism and Panpsychism Leopold Stubenberg
Dualism and Panpsychism Charles Taliaferro
Idealism and Panpsychism Uwe Meixner
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