Panexperientialism

Exploration of the Philosophical, Scientific and Social Implications of a Panexperientialist World View.

Saturday, January 16, 2021

Aesthetic evolution

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 This post will look at some of the potential implications for evolutionary theory of two books for the general reader, both published fairl...
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Monday, April 29, 2019

Panpsychism and the exchange abstraction

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In Money and the Early Greek Mind , Richard Seaford argues that the invention of money and coinage was instrumental in the development of co...
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Wednesday, February 13, 2019

Cosmopsychism and social evolution

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Cosmospychism is the view in contemporary analytic philosophy that the universe is a conscious subject, from which human consciousness is de...
Sunday, September 30, 2018

Twilight of the Idols and the Cosmic Mind

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"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 ...
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Saturday, August 25, 2018

Cosmopsychism and evolution

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Thomas Nagel’s book Mind and Cosmos has been widely criticised for, amongst other things, suggesting that Neo-Darwinism is insufficient to...
Thursday, February 08, 2018

Hope, Panpsychism and Utopia

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Two of the principal concerns of German philosopher Ernst Bloch  (1885 - 1997) were the concepts of hope and utopia. Bloch argued that a fut...
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Friday, April 14, 2017

Towards an appreciation of indigenous spirituality

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Like many people in the modern world today I believe there is much of value to be learned from indigenous spirituality and religions, parti...
Wednesday, January 07, 2015

On Non-experientiality

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Galen Strawson has written another insightful, pithy and entertaining article on panpsychism titled " Mind and being: th e primacy of p...
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Tuesday, March 05, 2013

Ernest Becker on the interiority of things

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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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Sunday, April 29, 2012

Links and Web Resources

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Friday, April 20, 2012

Nagarjuna, metaphysics and the limits of language

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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...
Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Mind Dust interviews

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The Mind Dust website has a series of interview clips with various philosophers on the topic of panpsychism taken at a conference in Munich...
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Friday, August 19, 2011

Does Secular Buddhism entail rejection of Rebirth?

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In recent times there has been interest in the congruence of some of the core concepts of buddhism and consciousness studies. Concepts such...
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Friday, February 04, 2011

Panexperiential Holism and its implications

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I came across this interesting little article by Ludwig Jaskolla and Alexander Buch regarding panexperiential holism. This is the thesis th...
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Saturday, December 19, 2009

Strawson on Nietzsche's Metaphysics

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Galen Strawson has delivered what looks like a very interesting paper on Nietzsche's Metaphysics at the recent Nietzsche on Mind and Nat...
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Thursday, November 19, 2009

Panpsychic Marxism?

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In the wake of the Global Financial Crisis and the apparent inherently crisis-prone nature of capitalism, I have been doing some reading of ...
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Saturday, September 27, 2008

Nietzsche's Naturalism

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Brian Leiter's draft paper "Nietzsche's Naturalism Reconsidered" is an engaging look at the issue of "whether and in...
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Thursday, August 28, 2008

A Case for Intelligent Design?

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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...
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Friday, August 08, 2008

The Goldilocks Enigma

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Paul Davies recent book " The Goldilocks Enigma " is a fascinating exploration of why the universe seems to be "just right...
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Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Forthcoming Book

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I noticed on this blog that David Skrbina, author of the highly regarded "Panpsychism in the West", is editing a new book on panp...
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Thursday, June 12, 2008

Thoughts on "The Ecological Self"

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Further to my last post, I've recently read Freya Mathew's book "The Ecological Self" (also partially available on Goog...
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Saturday, May 24, 2008

Does Physicalism entail Cosmopsychism?

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The increase in interest in panexperientialism (which I use synonymously with the term panpsychism) in recent years has focused mainly on a ...
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Thursday, May 08, 2008

Panpsychism at Tucson 2008

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Panpsychism appears to have featured significantly in the recent Tucson Towards a Science of Consciousness 2008 Conference , to the extent t...
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Sunday, January 27, 2008

Property Dualism - micro, macro and mystery

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Fiona Macpherson in this article contends that Galen Strawson’s proposed panpsychist solution to the mind-body problem is no less of a myst...
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Sunday, September 02, 2007

The Will to Power, Life and Parsimony

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Richard Schacht’s well-regarded book “ Nietzsche ” does a fine job of presenting Nietzsche’s philosophy, including his cosmology of the Will...
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Monday, July 23, 2007

Molnar, Merleau-Ponty and Pan-Intentionality

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Steve Esser has an interesting post on his blog examining the late philosopher George Molnar’s claim that “something very much like intentio...
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Wednesday, June 06, 2007

Strawson reviews

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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...
Thursday, April 19, 2007

Feelings and fitness

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I have been reading Sean Carroll’s book “Endless forms, Most beautiful” , which tracks recent progress in the field of evolutionary developm...
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Wednesday, February 07, 2007

The Many and the One?

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

Implausibility and Irrelevance

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Further to my previous posts re recent work of Galen Strawson and Gregg Rosenberg, The Journal of Consciousness Studies has an issue devo...
Saturday, October 28, 2006

Experience and the subject

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I’ve noticed on the net that recent work of Gregg Rosenberg and Galen Strawson on panexperientialist themes seems to be generating more resp...
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Saturday, September 09, 2006

Bridging the gap

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In this interesting paper, Peter Carruthers and Elizabeth Schechter (‘C & S’) argue that the case for panpsychism expounded by Galen St...
Saturday, April 01, 2006

From Fundamentality to ubiquity

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In a paper entitled "Realistic monism: why physicalism entails panpsychism" (linked on this page and previously mentioned on this...
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Friday, February 17, 2006

Experience debate at the Infidel's Forum

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Here is the link to an interesting on-line forum discussion I came across (on 'Panpsychism vs Materialism'). The Infidel Guy is an ...
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Thursday, September 08, 2005

Strawson on Physicalism and Panpsychism

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Philosopher Galen Strawson has recently presented a paper entitled “Why Physicalism entails Panpsychism”. Part of Strawson’s argument focuse...
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Tuesday, September 06, 2005

Agar, Embryology and Evolution

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Australian Cell biologist Wilfred Agar (1882 to 1951 biography here ) described his book, “A Contribution to the Theory of the Living Organi...
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Thursday, May 26, 2005

Occam and Epicycles

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A commonly expressed criticism of panexperientialism is that it is overly extravagant and violates Occam’s Principle that explanatory entiti...
Monday, April 25, 2005

Feeling feelings - Or not?

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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...
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Hunting Zombies

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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...
Sunday, April 17, 2005

Evolutionary Psychology and Experience

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The application of Sociobiology (the study of the evolutionary basis of behaviour) to humans has received a boost in recent times through th...
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Monday, March 28, 2005

The Primary Qualities

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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...
Wednesday, January 19, 2005

Hearing colors and seeing sounds

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

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Charles Hartshorne espoused the view that our cells and our conscious selves feel each other through sympathy. For example, here is a quote ...
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Monday, January 17, 2005

The Philosophy of Smell

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

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This post will primarily be concerned with the question of whether the brain, sense organs and nerve cells are necessary for perception.
Friday, December 31, 2004

Whitehead's Theory of Perception

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

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One of the barriers to the wider appreciation of the philosophy of Whitehead has been the denseness, difficulty and near impenetrability of ...
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Thursday, December 30, 2004

The Placebo Effect

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Here is a (fairly crudely argued) essay I wrote in 1992, which sparked my interest in all things panexperiential: Mind, Body and Affect: A...
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Justin
I have had a long-standing interest in panexperientialism (aka panpsychism) and use this blog to write about various topics related to it.
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