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Idealism and the Mind-Body Problem 1

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Chalmers, David·2019·The Routledge Handbook of Panpsychism
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Idealism is the view that the universe is fundamentally mental. It is often motivated by epistemological issues and associated with views such as phenomenalism. I explore a different sort of motivation for idealism, through the mind-body problem, and I explore the prospects for a version of idealism that is tied to panpsychism and cosmopsychism.

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Chalmers, D.
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Chalmers, David
ORCID
Chalmers, David
Venue
The Routledge Handbook of Panpsychism
Publisher
Routledge
Published
2019-12-10
Pages
353-373
DOI
10.4324/9781315717708-28
OpenAlex
W4240238085
Cited by
108
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1
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67.41
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book chapter
Language
en
Open access
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Routledge eBooks (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Philosophy and Theoretical Science
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
Keywords
idealism, mind-body problem, panpsychism, cosmopsychism, phenomenalism, epistemology

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