Monadic panpsychism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10812795 |
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| Authors | Nino Kadić (0000-0002-6107-4244, King's College London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 203 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2024-01-22 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Synthese (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0039-7857 • E-ISSN: 1573-0964 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s11229-023-04464-0 |
| OpenAlex | W4391100569 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 19 |
One of the main obstacles for panpsychism, the view that consciousness is fundamental and ubiquitous, is the difficulty of explaining how simple subjects could combine to form complex subjects. Known as the subject combination problem, it poses a possibly insurmountable challenge to the view. In this paper, I will assume that this challenge cannot be overcome and instead present a version of panpsychism that completely avoids talk of combination. Inspired by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz’s metaphysics of monads, I will focus on a relational explanation of how simple subjects could constitute complex experiences, without them having to combine in virtue of their subjectivity. I call this view monadic panpsychism . Additionally, my proposal will not rely on emergence and so it will circumvent problems commonly faced by emergentist accounts. As I will argue, monadic panpsychism is preferable to combinatory and emergentist panpsychism because it faces a significantly less worrisome set of objections. Apart from being unaffected by the seemingly insuperable issue of subject combination, I will demonstrate that monadic panpsychism also has tools to address other kinds of the combination problem. That alone justifies the need for a new formulation of panpsychism, one which faces unique difficulties but also offers unique solutions
Consciousness · Epistemology · Focus (optics) · Metaphysics · Philosophy of language · Philosophy of mind · Philosophy of science · Physics · Set (abstract data type) · Simple (philosophy) · Subject (documents) · Subjectivity · Computer Science · Embodied and Extended Cognition · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science · Philosophy and Theoretical Science
| Highly cited | No |
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