NDLI: Beyond Descartes: Panpsychism Revisited

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Skrbina, David
Copyright Year	2006
Abstract	For some two millennia, Western civilization has predominantly viewed mind and consciousness as the private domain of the human species. Some have been willing to extend these qualities to certain animals. And there has been a small but very significant minority of philosophers who have argued that the processes of mind are universal in extent, and resident in all material things – the concept of panpsychism. The traditional ‘man-alone’, or ‘man-and-higher-animals’, views of mind have come under increasing criticism of late, and their philosophical weaknesses seem increasingly insurmountable. This has caused some thinkers to reexamine the ancient and venerable concept of panpsychism, and to apply it anew in contemporary theories of mind. The present essay reintroduces panpsychism, and demonstrates something of its legacy in Western thought.
Starting Page	387
Ending Page	423
Page Count	37
File Format	PDF
ISSN	11221151
Journal	Axiomathes
Volume Number	16
Issue Number	4
e-ISSN	15728390
Language	English
Publisher	Kluwer Academic Publishers
Publisher Date	2006-11-03
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Logic Cognitive Psychology Linguistics (general) Ontology Philosophy
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Philosophy Mathematics

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Beyond Descartes: Panpsychism Revisited