Godehard Bruntrup - Panpsychism: Contemporary Perspectives

(p.i) Panpsychism

(p.ii) Philosophy of Mind

(p.iii) Panpsychism

SERIES EDITOR

David J. Chalmers, Australian National University and New York University

Self Expressions

Owen Flanagan

Deconstructing the Mind

Stephen Stich

The Conscious Mind

David J. Chalmers

Minds and Bodies

Colin McGinn

Whats Within?

Fiona Cowie

The Human Animal

Eric T. Olson

Dreaming Souls

Owen Flanagan

Consciousness and Cognition

Michael Thau

Thinking Without Words

Jos Luis Bermdez

Identifying the Mind

U.T. Place (author), George Graham,

Elizabeth R. Valentine (editors)

Purple Haze

Joseph Levine

Three Faces of Desire

Timothy Schroeder

A Place for Consciousness

Gregg Rosenberg

Ignorance and Imagination

Daniel Stoljar

Simulating Minds

Alvin I. Goldman

Gut Reactions

Jesse J. Prinz

Phenomenal Concepts and Phenomenal Knowledge

Torin Alter, Sven Walter (editors)

Beyond Reduction

Steven Horst

What Are We?

Eric T. Olson

Supersizing the Mind

Andy Clark

Perception, Hallucination, and Illusion

William Fish

Cognitive Systems and the Extended Mind

Robert D. Rupert

The Character of Consciousness

David J. Chalmers

Perceiving the World

Bence Nanay (editor)

The Contents of Visual Experience

Susanna Siegel

The Senses

Fiona Macpherson (editor)

Attention is Cognitive Unison

Christopher Mole

Consciousness and the Prospects of Physicalism

Derk Pereboom

Introspection and Consciousness

Declan Smithies and Daniel Stoljar (editors)

The Conscious Brain

Jesse J. Prinz

Decomposing the Will

Andy Clark, Julian Kiverstein, and Tillmann Vierkant (editors)

Phenomenal Intentionality

Uriah Kriegel (editor)

The Peripheral Mind

Istvn Aranyosi

The Innocent Eye

Nico Orlandi

Does Perception Have Content?

Edited by Berit Brogaard

The Varieties of Consciousness

Uriah Kriegel

Panpsychism

Godehard Brntrup and Ludwig Jaskolla (editors)

(p.iv)

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• Names: Brntrup, Godehard, editor.
• Title: Panpsychism : contemporary perspectives / edited by Godehard Brntrup
• and Ludwig Jaskolla.
• Description: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016. | Series:
• Philosophy of mind series | Includes index.
• Identifiers: LCCN 2016006039 | ISBN 9780199359943 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• Subjects: LCSH: Panpsychism. | Philosophy of mind. | Consciousness.
• Classification: LCC BD560 .P34 2016 | DDC 141dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016006039

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• Berit Brogaard (University of Miami)

• Godehard Brntrup (Munich School of Philosophy)

• David J. Chalmers (New York University)

• Sam Coleman (University of Hertfordshire)

• Philip Goff (Central European University)

• Ludwig Jaskolla (Munich School of Philosophy)

• Brian P. McLaughlin (Rutgers University)

• Uwe Meixner (University of Augsburg)

• Barbara Gail Montero (City University of New York)

• Yujin Nagasawa (University of Birmingham)

• Gregg Rosenberg (senior executive in private business)

• William Seager (University of Toronto Scarborough)

• Achim Stephan (Osnabrck University)

• Galen Strawson (University of Texas at Austin)

• Leopold Stubenberg (University of Notre Dame)

• Charles Taliaferro (St. Olaf College)

• Khai Wager (University of Birmingham)

Panpsychism is as old as philosophy itself, a key idea in Western and Eastern philosophical traditions (). It comes in many forms, and the definition of the term varies. In his benchmark entry on Panpsychism, William Seager defined the term very broadly: