Panpsychism and the Dissolution of Dispositional Properties

Southwest Philosophy Review 26 (2):87-108 (2010)
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Abstract

The article explains my third argument for panpsychism, based on disolving all properties, including dispositional physical properties like mass, energy, and force, into phenomenal properties. I thus reject a dual-property version of panpsychism. I seek to show, contrary to Paul Churchland, that the general panpsychist hypothesis has some explanatory value, and makes a cosmology consisting in comparative psychology possible. The mental life even of so-called physical particles in physics is hypothesized to help explain their behavior

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Clark Wade Butler
Purdue University

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