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Panpsychism and the Religious Attitude.
Title:
Panpsychism and the Religious Attitude.
Author:
Clarke, D.S.
ISBN:
9780791487044
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (212 pages)
Contents:
Panpsychism and the Religious Attitude -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- What is Panpsychism? -- Analogical Inferences -- Epistemological Questions -- 2. Versions of Panpsychism -- Greek Origins -- Leibniz's Monadology -- The Panpsychism of Whitehead's Process and Reality -- Hartshorne's Reformulation -- Nagel on Mentality in Wholes and Parts -- The Analogical Reasoning of Fechner and Chalmers -- 3. Humanist and Mechanist Alternatives -- Humanism and Naturalism -- Behavioral and Functionalist Descriptions of Language Use -- Some Criticisms of Functionalism -- Self-Consciousness and Freedom -- Intentionality -- 4. Mental Ascriptions -- Ascribing Sensations -- Social Aspects of Attitude Ascriptions -- Mentality and Spontaneity in the Infrahuman -- 5. Mentality and Evolution -- Mechanism and the Origination Argument -- Does the Panpsychist Thesis Extend to Fundamental Particles? -- Resultant and Emergent Properties -- The Role of Spontaneity in Evolution -- 6. The Theistic Alternative -- Universe-Wide Mentality -- Locke's Argument for God's Existence -- Swinburne's Argument from Consciousness -- 7. The Religious Attitude -- The Religious Attitude and Theology -- Linguistic Fideism -- Practical Inferences and Moral Overrides -- The Positive Drift for Panpsychism -- Notes -- Frontispiece -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Versions of Panpsychism -- Chapter 3. Humanist and Mechanist Alternatives -- Chapter 4. Mental Ascriptions -- Chapter 5. Mentality and Evolution -- Chapter 6. The Theistic Alternative -- Chapter 7. The Religious Attitude -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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