Is the Panpsychist Better Off as an Idealist?: Some Leibnizian Remarks on Consciousness and Composition
Year: 2011
Type: article
Abstract: Some philosophers of mind have argued for considering consciousness\nas a further fundamental feature of reality in addition to its physical properties.\nHence most of them are property dualists. But some of them are\npanpsychists. In the present paper it will be argued that being a real property\ndualist essentially entails being a panpsychist. Even if panpsychism\ndeals rather elegantly with certain problems of the puzzle of consciousness,\nthere´s no way around the composition problem. Adhering to the fundamentality\nclaim of the mind, it will be shown that only a radical revision of\nmetaphysics will allow the panpsychist to avoid these troubles, and hence\nthat a panpsychist must adopt Leibnizian idealism.
Source: Memorias
Author: Michael Blamauer
Institution: University of Vienna
Language: English
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2096784351