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ISBN: 1-282-10479-9 , 9786612104794 , 90-272-9003-2

Serie: Advances in consciousness research ; v 75

Inhalt: Panpsychism is the view that all things, living and nonliving, possess some mind like quality. It stands in sharp contrast to the traditional notion of mind as the property of humans and (perhaps) a few select 'higher animals'. Though surprising at first glance, panpsychism has a long and noble history in both Western and Eastern thought. Overlooked by analytical, materialist philosophy for most of the 20th century, it is now experiencing a renaissance of sorts in several areas of inquiry. A number of recent books - including Skrbina's Panpsychism in the West (2005) and Strawson et al's Consciousness and its Place in Nature (2006) - have established panpsychism as respectable and viable. Mind That Abides builds on these works. It takes panpsychism to be a plausible theory of mind and then moves forward to work out the philosophical, psychological and ethical implications. With 17 contributors from a variety of fields, this book promises to mark a wholesale change in our philosophical outlook. (Series A).

Anmerkung: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph , Mind that Abides -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements and dedication -- Introduction -- Panpsychism in history -- 1. The ancient world - West and East -- 2. Plato and Aristotle -- 3. Hellenism -- 4. Renaissance naturalism and pansensism -- 5. Developments in continental philosophy - Spinoza and Leibniz -- 6. The German philosopher-scientists -- 7. Anglo-American panpsychism -- 8. Process philosophy in the early 20th century -- 9. Late 20th century panpsychism -- Analysis and science -- Realistic monism -- 1. Physicalism -- 2. `It seems rather silly …' -- 3. Emergence -- 4. `Proto-experiential' -- 5. Micropsychism -- Appendix -- On the Sesmet Theory of Subjectivity* -- Halting the descent into panpsychism* -- 1. Terminology -- 2. Protoconsciousness at Planck scale geometry -- 3. Panpsychism and Copenhagenism -- 4. Quantum thermofield dynamics -- 5. Discussion -- 6. Conclusion -- Mind under matter -- 1. Existing motivations for panpsychism -- 1.1. The problem of consciousness -- 1.2. Russell's Insight and the pull of parsimony -- 1.3. Rosenberg's `No alternative' view -- 2. A new argument for panpsychism -- 3. Conclusion -- The conscious connection -- 1. Discrete conscious moments and quantum state reductions -- 2. The quantum/classical divide -- 3. The psycho/experiential side of the psycho-physical bridge: Quantum spacetime geometry -- 4. Penrose OR - the conscious connection -- 5. The biological side of the psycho-physical bridge - the Orch OR model -- 6. Consciousness in the universe -- 7. Conclusion -- Can the panpsychist get around the combination problem? -- 1. The combination problem -- 2. Making sense of experiences summing -- 3. The problem with this solution -- 4. Conclusion -- Universal correlates of consciousness. , 1. Science in Denial: The problem of the mechanical observer -- 2. What it all means: `Meaning' as expectations and predictions -- 3. What sensations mean: Reality is what we expect to feel when we reach for it -- 4. A much-overlooked clue: Consciousness uses and creates memory -- 5. On getting over one's self: The excluded middle way to enlightenment -- 6. Who's on second: State versus output phase lags and histories -- 7. It's the epistemology, stupid!: Eliminative skepticism -- 8. Arbitration and Sync for Orchestration or Quantum Collapse? -- 9. Observing the observer: Experimental directions for lab lovers -- Panpsychism, the Big-Bang-Argument, and the dignity of life -- 1. The Master-Argument for panpsychism and the problem of emergence -- 2. The Big-Bang-Argument for panpsychism -- 3. `Is' There an ought? -- 4. The dignity of life -- Process philosophy -- Back to Whitehead? -- 1. Panpsychism resurrected -- 2. The case for panpsychism: Strawson on emergence -- 3. The nature of physical existence -- 4. Phenomenal parts and wholes: Strawson and the composition problem -- 5. The great chain of being: Some skeptical doubts -- 6. A relational monadism: Strawson's approximation to Whitehead -- 7. Metaphysics and phenomenology: Whitehead's account of causation -- 8. Conclusion -- Does process externalism support panpsychism? -- 1. Unsnarling a complex knot: Is the physical world non-relational and devoid of qualities? -- 2. The illusion of a non-relational physical world -- 3. The relational nature of the physical world -- 4. A process ontology to endorse a relational view of the physical world -- 5. Qualities relocated in physical processes lead to a panpsychic view -- The dynamics of possession* -- 1. A new monadology -- 2. The souls of the World -- 3. The powers of possession -- 4. The origin and mode of existence of societies -- Finite eventism. , 1. Physics without space -- 2. Physicalism decommissioned -- 3. The dominant monad -- 3.1. Location of the human series in the brain sequence -- Conclusion -- Metaphysics and mind -- Zero-person and the psyche -- 1. The body-body problem -- 2. First-person, third-person, and zero-person -- 3. Combination and epiphenomenon -- 4. Panpsychism and endopsychism -- ``All things think'' -- 1. In what does the identity of being and thinking consist? -- 2. The principle of finitude -- 3. Panpsychism, finitude and externalism -- 4. Conclusion: Speculative physics and the ensouled magnet -- `Something there?' -- 1. A psychophysical world -- 2. Where to situate the realm of souls? -- 3. Recording Plant-experiences -- 4. Experiential Knowledge -- 5. Knowledge as a relational practice -- 6. Conclusion -- Panpsychic presuppositions of Samkhya metaphysics -- 1. Presuppositions of panpsychism -- 2. Plurality of fundamental entities -- 3. Plural and ubiquitous conscious principle (Purusa) -- 4. Evolution of consciousness -- The awareness of rock -- 1. Reverence for stone in China -- 2. Japanese understandings of rock -- 3. Stone as a source of understanding -- 4. Some consequences and implications -- Why has the West failed to embrace panpsychism? -- 1. Theoria: The perspective of the West -- 2. The strategic perspective -- 3. Western anticipations: Spinoza and Goethe -- 4. Conclusion -- Minds, objects, and relations -- 1. Physicalism versus dual-aspect monism -- 2. The spectrum of mind -- 3. Six characteristics of mind -- 4. Dynamical systems and the mind -- 5. The hylonoetic interpretation of dynamical systems theory -- 6. Externalizing the mind -- 7. Thoughts on panrelationalism -- References -- Index -- The series Advances in Consciousness Research. , English

Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 90-272-5211-4

Sprache: Englisch