Forming a Positive Concept of the Phenomenal Bonding Relation for Constitutive Panpsychism



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.

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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
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