Panpsychism: Contemporary Perspectives (Philosophy of Mind.
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.Emergentism and Panpsychism can be argued as two different ways of explaining consciousness in the frame work of ontology. While one says it emerges at some point of complexity of the system the other say it is present in the tiniest part of the system. What is actually needed is a true integration of Emergentism and Panpsychism.The final five chapters of the book are in a section “Panpsychism and its Alternatives”, but three of the chapters really describe neutral monist panpsychism, dualist panpsychism, and idealist panpsychism; moreover, all three are somewhat idealist in tenor. Only two “Alternatives” reject panpsychism.
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy organizes scholars from around the world in philosophy and related disciplines to create and maintain an up-to-date reference work.Galen John Strawson (born 1952) is a British analytic philosopher and literary critic who works primarily on philosophy of mind, metaphysics (including free will, panpsychism, the mind-body problem, and the self), John Locke, David Hume, Immanuel Kant and Friedrich Nietzsche. He has been a consultant editor at The Times Literary Supplement for many years, and a regular book reviewer for The.
However, panpsychism as defended in contemporary philosophy is the view that consciousness is fundamental and ubiquitous, where to be conscious is simply to have subjective experience of some kind. This doesn’t necessarily imply anything as sophisticated as thoughts.
