The Routledge Handbook of Panpsychism

ISBN-13: 9781138817135 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 384 str.

William Seager

Opis

Pansychism is the idea that some form of mentality and consciousness exist in all living and nonliving things and thus presents a challenge to an unwavering physicalist metaphysics. The Routledge Handbook of Panpsychism covers the long history of the subject in philosophy--from the Presocractics to the 21^st century--elucidates and synthesizes important contemporary philosophical and scientific research in the area, and addresses the advantages and difficulties of panpsychism as an approach to problems in philosophy of mind. With 30 chapters written especially for this volume by an internationally respected team of contributors, this Handbook serves as useful starting point and comprehensive reference for anyone interested in this promising, growing and multidimensional field.

Spis treści

Preface  1. Introduction: A Panpsychist Manifesto  Part I: Historical Reflections 2. Plato and Panpsychism  3. Abhidharma Panprotopsychist Metaphysics of Consciousness  4. Spinoza’s Panpsychism  5. Many-Minded Leibniz’s Many Minds  6. Panpsychism in the 19^th Century  7. William James, Pure Experience, and Panpsychism  8. Overcoming the Cartesian Legacy: Whitehead’s Revisionary Metaphysics  9. Russell’s Neutral Monism and Panpsychism  10. Panpsychism Reconsidered: A Historical and Philosophical Overview  Part II: Forms of Panpsychism 11. Beyond Cosmopsychism and the Great I Am: How the World might be Grounded in Universal ‘Advaitic’ Consciousness  12. Living Cosmos Panpsychism  13. Cosmopsychism, Micropsychism and the Grounding Relation  14. The Crux of Subjectivity: The Subjective Dimension of Consciousness and its Role in Panpsychism  15. Anomalous Dualism: A New Approach to the Mind-Body Problem Part III: Comparative Alternatives  16. Subjective Physicalism and Panpsychism  17. Panpsychism: A Cognitive Pluralist Perspective  18. Neutral Monism Reborn: Breaking the Gridlock Between Emergence and Inherence  19. Panpsychism and Non-standard Materialism: Some Comparative Remarks  20. Panpsychism and Russellian Monism  Part IV: How Does Panpsychism Work? 21. Can We Sum Subjects? Evaluating Panpsychism’s Hard Problem  22. Panpsychism Versus Pantheism, Polytheism, and Cosmopsychism  23. The Argument for Panpsychism from Experience of Causation  24. A Quantum Cure for Panphobia  25. Panpsychism’s Combination Problem is a Problem for Everyone  26. What Does "Physical" Mean? A Prolegomenon to Physicalist Panpsychism  27. Strawson on Panpsychism  28. Idealism and the Mind-Body Problem

O autorze

William Seager is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto Scarborough. He works primarily in the philosophy of mind and consciousness studies; his most recent book is Theories of Consciousness (2^nd edition; Routledge, 2016).