Matter, Consciousness, and the Anthropocene
Environmental Humanities November 1, 2025 J. Gaudry, S. Healy
The ways social theorists conceptualize the material world influences their approach to conceiving and addressing the environmental challenges of the Anthropocene. This article uses panpsychist theory, which holds that consciousness is a fundamental and ubiquitous property of the natural world, as a way of conceptualizing and developing responses to these challenges. This is done by contrasting...