Miller, Gregory ORCID: 0000-0003-0685-4632
(2017)
Forming a Positive Concept of the Phenomenal Bonding Relation for Constitutive Panpsychism.
Dialectica, 71 (4).
pp. 541-562.
Abstract
Philip Goff has recently argued that due to the ‘subject-summing problem’, panpsychism cannot explain consciousness. The subject-summing problem is a problem which is analogous to the physicalist's explanatory gap; it is a gap between the micro-experiential facts and the macro-experiential facts. Goff also suggests that there could be a solution by way of a ‘phenomenal bonding relation’, but believes that this solution is not up to scratch because we cannot form a positive not-merely-role-playing concept of this relation. In this paper, I argue that the phenomenal bonding solution is up to scratch. I argue that the panpsychist, by carefully inspecting their phenomenology and scrutinising their concepts, can form a positive concept of the phenomenal bonding relation. By doing this they can start to get around their explanatory gap.
Item Type: | Article |
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Depositing User: | Symplectic Admin |
Date Deposited: | 23 Aug 2018 15:04 |
Last Modified: | 19 Jan 2023 01:26 |
DOI: | 10.1111/1746-8361.12207 |
Open Access URL: | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/17... |
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URI: | https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3025459 |