4 papers in the library · 176 citations · publishing 1959-2023
Dialectica April 5, 2023 Luke Roelofs
Critics have charged constitutive panpsychism with inconsistency. Panpsychists reject physicalism for its seeming inability to explain consciousness. In making this argument, they commit themselves to the idea of "revelation": that we know, in some especially direct way, the nature of consciousness. Yet they then attribute properties to our consciousness---like being constituted out of...
Dialectica 2009 Philip Goff 163 citations
This paper starts from the assumption that panpsychism is counterintuitive and metaphysically demanding. A number of philosophers, whilst not denying these negative aspects of the view, think that panpsychism has in its favour that it offers a good explanation of consciousness. In opposition to this, the paper argues that panpsychism cannot help us to explain consciousness, at least not the...
Dialectica 1977 Karl Raimund Popper 9 citations
Many writers, both scientists and philosophers, when discussing the mind-body problem, adopt what might be called the physicalist principle of the closedness of the physical world. They reject the possibility that the physical world is causally open to a realm of conscious experience that is not part of it. Among the upholders of such a view are those who may be called radical materialists or...
Dialectica 1959 Raymond Ruyer 4 citations
Résumé Les doctrines vitalistes ou panpsychistes ont représenté longtemps le courant central de la pensée philosophique, et même scientifique. L'atomisme mécaniste n'était qu'une philosophie d'amateur, inutilisable scientifiquement. L'avènement de la mécanique galiléenne a interverti momentanément les rôles. Mais aujourd'hui, I'avèement de la microphysique permet de donner un sens précis au...