Panexperientialism

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...