This paper examines key conceptual difficulties faced by contemporary panpsychist theories of consciousness. The author analyzes constitutive versions of Russellian panpsychism and shows that introducing microphenomenal properties as fundamental intrinsic characteristics of physical reality does not solve the hard problem of consciousness, but only renders it even more convoluted. The central...
The paper examines such an important topic for the modern analytical philosophy of perception as the relationship between direct realism and the argument from hallucination. For direct realists, the problem of hallucination creates serious difficulties. If in veridical experience the phenomenal character is explained by the relation of acquaintance with the properties of surrounding material...