The Routledge Handbook of Consciousness

1 Why Consider Radical Approaches? There is always a legitimate philosophical interest in the history of significant doctrines a ...

Idealism, Panpsychism, and Emergentism Idealism, Panpsychism, and Emergentism the philosophical arguments linking these to the n ...

William Seager 2 Idealism Idealism is the view that consciousness is a fundamental feature of reality (denying Proposition 1). I ...

Idealism, Panpsychism, and Emergentism that experience, and its organization, is metaphysically fundamental; experience itself i ...

William Seager Arthur Eddington concurred: “physical science consists of purely structural knowledge, so that we know only the s ...

Idealism, Panpsychism, and Emergentism such as inversion (or even small shifts), will make no difference to the overall relation ...

William Seager Panpsychism is hard to believe, or worse. John Searle (2013) calls it “absurd” and claims that the view “does not ...

Idealism, Panpsychism, and Emergentism Hence if the living creature were removed all these qualities would be wiped away and ann ...

William Seager the fundamental features combine in composite entities. Throughout nature there are intricate systems of relatedn ...

Idealism, Panpsychism, and Emergentism Perhaps it is not deeply surprising to find chemistry depending upon physics insofar as t ...

William Seager regarded as metaphysically primary, and the problem is then one of de-combining cosmic consciousness into individ ...

Idealism, Panpsychism, and Emergentism reality are neither mental nor physical. These latter are constructs from the neutral mat ...

William Seager Humphreys, P. (1997a) “Emergence, Not Supervenience,” Philosophy of Science 64: S337–345. Humphreys, P. (1997b) “ ...

Idealism, Panpsychism, and Emergentism Seager, W. (2016) “Panpsychist Infusion,” In G. Brüntrup and L. Jaskolla (eds.) Panpsychi ...

In recent decades, with advances in the behavioral, cognitive, and neurosciences, the idea that patterns of human behavior may u ...

Consciousness and Free Will Consciousness and Free Will It further maintains that developments in psychology and social psycholo ...

Gregg D. Caruso result of factors beyond our control, and because of this we are never morally responsible for our actions in th ...

Consciousness and Free Will Among those who deny that consciousness is necessary for free will are many proponents of the two le ...

Gregg D. Caruso distinction is important, “because it allows us to say that what makes an attitude ‘ours’ in the sense relevant ...

Consciousness and Free Will were of utmost importance. That is, I argued that, “for an action to be free, consciousness must be ...