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7 papers in the library · 40 citations · publishing 1984-2022
The Monist January 18, 2022 Miri Albahari
Abstract: Panpsychism is viewed by its advocates as resolving the main sticking points for materialism and dualism. While sympathetic to this approach, I locate two prevalent assumptions within modern panpsychism which I think are problematic: first, that fundamental consciousness belongs to a perspectival subject (whether microlevel or cosmic) and second, that the physical world, despite being...
The Monist January 18, 2022 Jonardon Ganeri
AbstractThe phrase “cosmic consciousness” has a surprising and fascinating history. I will show how it first enters into circulation in the writings of the remarkable Englishman Edward Carpenter (1844–1929), a socialist, philosopher, and prescient activist for gay rights and prison reform. Carpenter made a trip to India and Sri Lanka in 1890, where he spent two months sitting at the feet of...
The Monist January 18, 2022 Monima Chadha
Abstract: Abhidharma Buddhist philosophy presents a version of what is now often called “panprotopsychism.” The most pressing group of problems for the Abhidharma panprotopsychism, like all other panpsychist views, is what Seager calls “the combination problem.” There are at least three versions of the problem: the subject-combination problem; the quality-combination problem; and the...
The Monist January 18, 2022 Anand Jayprakash Vaidya
Abstract: Analytic Panpsychism has been brought into contact with Indian philosophy primarily through an examination of the Advaita Vedānta tradition and the Yogācāra tradition. In this work I explore the relation between Rāmānuja, the 12th century father of the Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta tradition, and analytic panpsychism. I argue that Rāmānuja’s philosophy inspires a more world affirming form of...
The Monist October 25, 2021 Luca Gasparri 6 citations
Abstract A growing movement in contemporary philosophy of mind is looking back on Indian thought to gain new insights into the problem of consciousness. This paper weighs the prospects of thinking about mentality through the lenses of Śaṅkaran Advaita Vedānta. To start, I outline micropsychist and cosmopsychist accounts of consciousness, introduce Śaṅkaran monism, and describe a potential...
The Monist October 16, 2021 Swami Medhananda 33 citations
Abstract This article argues that the Indian philosopher-mystic Sri Aurobindo (1872–1950) espoused a sophisticated form of cosmopsychism that has great contemporary relevance. After first discussing Aurobindo’s prescient reflections on the “central problem of consciousness” and his arguments against materialist reductionism, I explain how he developed a panentheistic philosophy of “realistic...
The Monist 1984 R. Lind 1 citation
Journal Article Microphenomenology and Numerical Relations Get access Richard W. Lind Richard W. Lind University of Tulsa Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar The Monist, Volume 67, Issue 1, 1 January 1984, Pages 29–45, https://doi.org/10.5840/monist19846716 Published: 17 December 2014