Panexperientialism

 This post will look at some of the potential implications for evolutionary theory of two books for the general reader, both published fairl...

In Money and the Early Greek Mind , Richard Seaford argues that the invention of money and coinage was instrumental in the development of co...

Cosmospychism is the view in contemporary analytic philosophy that the universe is a conscious subject, from which human consciousness is de...

"The concept of the “beyond”, the “true world” invented in order to devaluate the only world there is - in order to retain no goal, no ...

Thomas Nagel’s book Mind and Cosmos has been widely criticised for, amongst other things, suggesting that Neo-Darwinism is insufficient to...

Two of the principal concerns of German philosopher Ernst Bloch  (1885 - 1997) were the concepts of hope and utopia. Bloch argued that a fut...

Like many people in the modern world today I believe there is much of value to be learned from indigenous spirituality and religions, parti...

Galen Strawson has written another insightful, pithy and entertaining article on panpsychism titled " Mind and being: th e primacy of p...

I recently came across the passage below from Pulitzer Prize winning writer Ernest Becker (author of ' The Denial of Death "). It ...

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I have recently enjoyed working my way thorugh Jay Garfield's " The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way ", which is an alayti...

The Mind Dust website has a series of interview clips with various philosophers on the topic of panpsychism taken at a conference in Munich...

In recent times there has been interest in the congruence of some of the core concepts of buddhism and consciousness studies. Concepts such...

I came across this interesting little article by Ludwig Jaskolla and Alexander Buch regarding panexperiential holism. This is the thesis th...

Galen Strawson has delivered what looks like a very interesting paper on Nietzsche's Metaphysics at the recent Nietzsche on Mind and Nat...

In the wake of the Global Financial Crisis and the apparent inherently crisis-prone nature of capitalism, I have been doing some reading of ...

Brian Leiter's draft paper "Nietzsche's Naturalism Reconsidered" is an engaging look at the issue of "whether and in...

In this post I aim to have a go at the heresy of presenting a case for the plausibility of intelligent design as a factor in biological evo...

Paul Davies recent book " The Goldilocks Enigma " is a fascinating exploration of why the universe seems to be "just right...

I noticed on this blog that David Skrbina, author of the highly regarded "Panpsychism in the West", is editing a new book on panp...

Further to my last post, I've recently read Freya Mathew's book "The Ecological Self" (also partially available on Goog...

The increase in interest in panexperientialism (which I use synonymously with the term panpsychism) in recent years has focused mainly on a ...

Panpsychism appears to have featured significantly in the recent Tucson Towards a Science of Consciousness 2008 Conference , to the extent t...

Fiona Macpherson in this article contends that Galen Strawson’s proposed panpsychist solution to the mind-body problem is no less of a myst...

Richard Schacht’s well-regarded book “ Nietzsche ” does a fine job of presenting Nietzsche’s philosophy, including his cosmology of the Will...

Steve Esser has an interesting post on his blog examining the late philosopher George Molnar’s claim that “something very much like intentio...

Two good reviews of Galen Strawson et al’s “Consciousness and it’s place in Nature” by Jerry Fodor and Leo Stubenberg have come out recent...

I have been reading Sean Carroll’s book “Endless forms, Most beautiful” , which tracks recent progress in the field of evolutionary developm...

One of the most problematic issues in panexperientialist theories is how purported centers of experience at the microexperiential level rela...

Further to my previous posts re recent work of Galen Strawson and Gregg Rosenberg, The Journal of Consciousness Studies has an issue devo...

I’ve noticed on the net that recent work of Gregg Rosenberg and Galen Strawson on panexperientialist themes seems to be generating more resp...

In this interesting paper, Peter Carruthers and Elizabeth Schechter (‘C & S’) argue that the case for panpsychism expounded by Galen St...

In a paper entitled "Realistic monism: why physicalism entails panpsychism" (linked on this page and previously mentioned on this...

Here is the link to an interesting on-line forum discussion I came across (on 'Panpsychism vs Materialism'). The Infidel Guy is an ...

Philosopher Galen Strawson has recently presented a paper entitled “Why Physicalism entails Panpsychism”. Part of Strawson’s argument focuse...

Australian Cell biologist Wilfred Agar (1882 to 1951 biography here ) described his book, “A Contribution to the Theory of the Living Organi...

A commonly expressed criticism of panexperientialism is that it is overly extravagant and violates Occam’s Principle that explanatory entiti...

In previous posts in this blog there has been a tension between two interpretations of the way in which we may experience the world. The ten...

The zombie trail is a well-trodden path, so I thought I might venture out myself: The logical possibility of a zombie world -in which huma...

The application of Sociobiology (the study of the evolutionary basis of behaviour) to humans has received a boost in recent times through th...

I have been reading DM Armstrong’s book “Perception and the Physical World’, in which he proffers a defence of direct realism, based on a de...

Synaesthesia, is a rare condition in which a stimulus received in one sense organ causes an experience in another. For example, in colored h...

Charles Hartshorne espoused the view that our cells and our conscious selves feel each other through sympathy. For example, here is a quote ...

Whitehead argued that theories of consciousness often flounder because they explain what is most primitive and basic in terms of what stands...

This post will primarily be concerned with the question of whether the brain, sense organs and nerve cells are necessary for perception.

Whitehead’s theory or perception is integral to Whiteheadian panexperientialism. In particular, his analysis of ‘perception in the mode of c...

One of the barriers to the wider appreciation of the philosophy of Whitehead has been the denseness, difficulty and near impenetrability of ...

Here is a (fairly crudely argued) essay I wrote in 1992, which sparked my interest in all things panexperiential: Mind, Body and Affect: A...