Through a close study of T. Yunkaporta's 2019’s Sand Talk, this article explores fractal thinking and the pattern of creation in Indigenous cosmology; the role of custodianship in respectful interaction between living systems; alternative Indigenous understandings of nonlinearity, time, and transience; the process-panpsychism and animism present in Indigenous perceptions of cosmos as living...
Abstract Alfred North Whitehead famously compares the philosophical method of knowledge acquisition with the process of flying an airplane. Likewise, “shamanic flight” marks stages of cognitive processing in navigation through perceptible and imperceptible worlds. This article focuses on the cosmovision of the Amazon people Huni Kuin, the Whiteheadian method of imaginative rationalization, and...
Abstract This paper provides a brief critique of Jaegwon Kim’s evaluation of the achievements of materialist physicalism and then goes on to examine the case for panpsychism and the main objection that has been raised against it, i.e., the composition problem. The object of this examination is to lay bare the fundamental assumptions underlying both the main argument in support of the theory and...
This paper provides a brief critique of Jaegwon Kim’s evaluation of the achievements of materialist physicalism and then goes on to examine the case for panpsychism and the main objection that has been raised against it, i.e., the composition problem. The object of this examination is to lay bare the fundamental assumptions underlying both the main argument in support of the theory and the...
Abstract For mainstream analytic philosophy of mind, the exphnatory gap between first- and third-person accounts of consciousness derives from the inaccessibility of special, "experiential" properties of conscious minds. Within this framework, panpsychism is simply the claim that these special properties are everywhere. In contrast, process panpsychism understands the explanatory gap in terms...
Book Review| April 01 2007 Consciousness and its Place in Nature. Does Physicalism entail Panpsychism? Consciousness and its Place in Nature. Does Physicalism entail Panpsychism?, GALEN STRAWSON and Anthony Freeman. PIERFRANCESCO BASILE PIERFRANCESCO BASILE Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Process Studies (2007) 36 (1): 150–153. https://doi.org/10.2307/44797337 Cite...
Whitehead's concept of prehension is undeniably the master principle of his\nprocess metaphysics. It is the central function of a creative universe whereby\nthe many past occasions become a novel one. In my view, the concept of prehension\nis Whitehead's most original and distinctive contribution to metaphysics.\nIt is also the very idea that prevents most contemporary philosophers...
Research Article| January 01 1995 Panpsychism and the Early History of Prehension Lewis S. Ford Lewis S. Ford Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Process Studies (1995) 24: 15–33. https://doi.org/10.2307/44798161 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Lewis S. Ford; Panpsychism and the Early History of Prehension....
Research Article| April 01 1984 Mystical Consciousness in a Process Perspective Ernest L. Simmons, Jr. Ernest L. Simmons, Jr. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Process Studies (1984) 14 (1): 1–10. https://doi.org/10.2307/44798176 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Ernest L. Simmons; Mystical Consciousness in...
Research Article| April 01 1974 Panpsychism and Parsimony John J. Shepherd John J. Shepherd Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Process Studies (1974) 4 (1): 3–10. https://doi.org/10.2307/44797558 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation John J. Shepherd; Panpsychism and Parsimony. Process Studies 1 January 1974; 4...