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Why panpsychism doesn’t help us explain consciousness

Goff, Philip·2009·dialectica
DOI 10.1111/j.1746-8361.2009.01196.x
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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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Research works printed but not linked: 4

  1. Chalmers, 1996, The Conscious Mind: Towards a Fundamental Theory
  2. Lewis, 1988, Proceedings of the Russellian Society
  3. Rey, 1995, Conscious Experience
  4. Strawson, 2002, Towards a Science of Consciousness III

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Authors
Goff, P.
Affiliations
University of Birmingham (GB)
Corresponding author
Goff, Philip
ORCID
Goff, Philip
Venue
dialectica
Publisher
Verein philosophie.ch
Published
2009
Volume
63
Issue
3
Pages
289-311
ISSN
0012-2017 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1111/j.1746-8361.2009.01196.x
OpenAlex
W2109455157
Cited by
163
References
43
Citations by year
2026: 3 · 2025: 22 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 41 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 17 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 31 · 2018: 9 · 2017: 8 · 2016: 6 · 2015: 5 · 2014: 2 · 2013: 5 · 2012: 1
FWCI
0.85
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
doi.wiley.com/10.1002/tdm_license_1.1 (tdm, 2434 d)
Locations
  • dialectica (publishedVersion)
  • University of Birmingham Research Portal (University of Birmingham) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Philosophy and Theoretical Science
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Embodied and Extended Cognition
Keywords
panpsychism, consciousness, metaphysics of mind

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