The problem of evil and the problem of consciousness occupy central positions in the philosophy of religion and the philosophy of mind, respectively. On the face of it, these problems seem to be fundamentally distinct. The problem of evil is concerned with whether the existence of evil in the world undermines belief in the existence of God while the problem of consciousness concerns the nature...
This chapter explicates a version of holistic panpsychism, “priority cosmopsychism,” which is understood as a holistic alternative to classical micropanpsychism. Priority cosmopsychism inherits the idea that there is—ontologically speaking—the whole as well as its respective parts from Schafferian priority monism. Despite this quasi-realistic concept of the respective parts, priority monists...
In God and Phenomenal Consciousness, Yujin Nagasawa bridges debates in two distinct areas of philosophy: the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of religion. First, he introduces some of the most powerful arguments against the existence of God and provides objections to them. He then presents a parallel structure between these arguments and influential arguments offered by Thomas Nagel and...