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Panpsychism: Contemporary Perspectives, edited by Godehard Brüntrup and Ludwig Jaskolla

Panpsychism: Contemporary Perspectives, edited by Godehard Brüntrup and Ludwig Jaskolla New York: Oxford University Press, 2017, 424 pp.; paperback isbn: 0268013748; hardback isbn: 0199359946.I take it as my primary task in reviewing Panpsychism: Contemporary Perspectives to provide a sketch of the main projects being pursued in it, and the assumptions that drive them and determine what gets counted (and by whom) as success or failure in the pursuit of them. The book (hereinafter referred to as B&J) is a very rich resource for studying and thinking about a significant contemporary development in analytical metaphysics and philosophy of mind. There is much more discussion of panpsychism now, in those fields, than there was twenty or thirty years ago, and certainly more being published about it. As Leopold Stubenberg remarks in B&J, it is “the subject of a rapidly growing body of contemporary research” (349).1David Chalmers refers, more ambiguously, to “a small groundswell of activity on panpsychism” (180).But what is this fuss about? First of all, what is panpsychism? In their very helpful Introduction to B&J, its editors, Brüntrup and Jaskolla, begin with a “very broad” definition of panpsychism (as they call it) by William Seager and Sean Allen-Hermanson (2010, 1):Panpsychism is the doctrine that mind is a fundamental feature of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Grazer Philosophische Studien Brill

Panpsychism: Contemporary Perspectives, edited by Godehard Brüntrup and Ludwig Jaskolla

Grazer Philosophische Studien , Volume 95 (2): 7 – May 2, 2018

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New York: Oxford University Press, 2017, 424 pp.; paperback isbn: 0268013748; hardback isbn: 0199359946.I take it as my primary task in reviewing Panpsychism: Contemporary Perspectives to provide a sketch of the main projects being pursued in it, and the assumptions that drive them and determine what gets counted (and by whom) as success or failure in the pursuit of them. The book (hereinafter referred to as B&J) is a very rich resource for studying and thinking about a significant contemporary development in analytical metaphysics and philosophy of mind. There is much more discussion of panpsychism now, in those fields, than there was twenty or thirty years ago, and certainly more being published about it. As Leopold Stubenberg remarks in B&J, it is “the subject of a rapidly growing body of contemporary research” (349).1David Chalmers refers, more ambiguously, to “a small groundswell of activity on panpsychism” (180).But what is this fuss about? First of all, what is panpsychism? In their very helpful Introduction to B&J, its editors, Brüntrup and Jaskolla, begin with a “very broad” definition of panpsychism (as they call it) by William Seager and Sean Allen-Hermanson (2010, 1):Panpsychism is the doctrine that mind is a fundamental feature of

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Published: May 2, 2018

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