Putting Consciousness First: Replies to Critics

Journal of Consciousness Studies 28 (9-10):289-328 (2021)
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In this paper, I reply to 18 of the essays on panpsychism in this issue. Along the way, I sketch out what a post-Galilean science of consciousness, one in which consciousness is taken to be a fundamental feature of reality, might look like.

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Panpsychism.William E. Seager, Philip Goff & Sean Allen-Hermanson - 2022 - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Towards a Neutral-Structuralist Theory of Consciousness and Selfhood.Janko Nešić - 2022 - International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 35 (3):243-259.
Idealist Panpsychism and Spacetime Structure.Damian Aleksiev - 2024 - Journal of the American Philosophical Association 10 (3):615-636.

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Facing up to the problem of consciousness.D. J. Chalmers - 1996 - Toward a Science of Consciousness:5-28.
Consciousness and Fundamental Reality.Philip Goff - 2017 - New York, USA: Oup Usa.
Materialism and qualia: The explanatory gap.Joseph Levine - 1983 - Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 64 (October):354-61.
The rise of physicalism.David Papineau - 2001 - In Carl Gillett & Barry Loewer (eds.), Physicalism and its Discontents. New York: Cambridge University Press.

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