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61Review of Re-Emergence: Locating Conscious Properties in a Material World by Gerald Vision (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. 2012.
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60Is Realism about Consciousness Compatible with a Scientifically Respectable Worldview?Journal of Consciousness Studies 23 (11-12): 83-97. 2016.Frankish's argument for illusionism -- the view that there are no real instances of phenomenal consciousness -- depends on the claim that phenomenal consciousness is an 'anomalous phenomenon', at odds with our scientific picture of the world. I distinguish two senses in which a phenomenon might be 'anomalous': its reality is inconsistent with what science gives us reason to believe, its reality adds to what science gives us reason to believe. I then argue that phenomenal consciousness is not ano…Read more
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59How Exactly Does Panpsychism Help Explain Consciousness?Journal of Consciousness Studies 31 (3): 56-82. 2024.There has recently been a revival of interest in panpsychism as a theory of consciousness. The hope of the contemporary proponents of panpsychism is that the view enables us to integrate consciousness into our overall theory of reality in a way that avoids the deep difficulties that plague the more conventional options of physicalism on the one hand and dualism on the other. However, panpsychism comes in two forms — strong and weak emergentist — and there are arguments that seem to show that wea…Read more
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55Ghosts are still scarier than zombies – Reply to Diaz-Leon’s reply to ‘A priori physicalism, lonely ghosts and Cartesian doubt’Consciousness and Cognition 21 (2): 749-750. 2012.
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52Review of Cynthia MacDonald, Graham MacDonald (eds.), Emergence in Mind (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2011 (2). 2011.
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46Why Panpsychism doesn't Help Us Explain ConsciousnessDialectica 63 (3): 289-311. 2009.This paper starts from the assumption that panpsychism is counterintuitive and metaphysically demanding. A number of philosophers, whilst not denying these negative aspects of the view, think that panpsychism has in its favour that it offers a good explanation of consciousness. In opposition to this, the paper argues that panpsychism cannot help us to explain consciousness, at least not the kind of consciousness we have pre-theoretical reason to believe in.
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37Purpose in the Universe: the Moral and metaphysical case for Ananthropocentric Purposivism, by Timothy Mulgan. Oxford University Press, 2015. 435 pp. $100 (hb), $31.95 (pb) (review)International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 92 (3): 177-181. 2022.
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37Galileo's error: foundations for a new science of consciousnessPantheon Books. 2019.How Galileo created the problem of consciousness -- Is there a ghost in the machine? -- Can physical science explain consciousness? -- How to solve the problem of consciousness -- Consciousness and the meaning of life.
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36VI—Panpsychism and Free Will: A Case Study in Liberal NaturalismProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 120 (2): 123-144. 2020.There has been a resurgence of interest in panpsychism in contemporary philosophy of mind. According to its supporters, panpsychism offers an attractive solution to the mind–body problem, avoiding the deep difficulties associated with the more conventional options of dualism and materialism. There has been little focus, however, on whether panpsychism can help with philosophical problems pertaining to free will. In this paper I will argue (a) that it is coherent and consistent with observation t…Read more
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31The Case for PanpsychismIn Prem Saran Satsangi, Anna Margaretha Horatschek & Anand Srivastav (eds.), Consciousness Studies in Sciences and Humanities: Eastern and Western Perspectives, Springer Verlag. pp. 55-61. 2024.Panpsychism is the view that consciousness is a fundamental and ubiquitous feature of the physical world. This chapter outlines two major arguments for panpsychism, one in terms of its role in solving the hard problem of consciousness, and two the intrinsic nature argument. It also responds to the worry that panpsychism is too counterintuitive to be true.
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26PanpsychismIn Max Velmans & Susan Schneider (eds.), The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness, Wiley-blackwell. 2007.Physicalism dominated Anglo‐American philosophy in the latter half of the twentieth century, and is perhaps still the most popular view among analytic philosophers. Panpsychism is increasingly being seen as a serious option, both for explaining consciousness and for providing a satisfactory theory of the natural world. Perhaps the most popular form of panpsychism at present is constitutive panpsychism. At least some fundamental material entities are conscious; facts about human and animal consci…Read more
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21There is No Combination ProblemIn Michael Blamauer (ed.), The Mental as Fundamental: New Perspectives on Panpsychism, Ontos Verlag. pp. 131-140. 2011.
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17A Non‐Eliminative Understanding of Austere NominalismEuropean Journal of Philosophy 16 (1): 43-54. 2008.
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16Propertied Objects as Truth-MakersIn Paolo Valore (ed.), Topics on General and Formal Ontology, Polimetrica International Scientific Publisher. pp. 181-189. 2006.
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4Mario Bunge, Emergence and Convergence. Qualitative Novelty and the Unity of Knowledge Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 24 (6): 389-391. 2004.
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3Can the panpsychist get around the combination problem?(Chapter 6)In David Skrbina (ed.), Mind That Abides: Panpsychism in the New Millennium, John Benjamins. pp. 129--135. 2009.