Recent debates in philosophy of mind seemingly have resulted in an impasse. Reductive physicalism cannot account for the phenomenal mind, and nonreductive physicalism cannot safeguard a causal role for the mental as mental. Dualism was formerly considered to be the only viable alternative, but in addition to exacerbating the problem of mental causation, it is hard to square with a naturalist evolutionary framework.By 1979, Thomas Nagel argued that if reductionism and dualism fail, and a non-reductionist form of strong emergence cannot be made intelligible, then panpsychism-the thesis that mental being is a fundamental and ubiquitous feature of the universe-might be a viable alternative. But it was not until David Chalmers' The Conscious Mind in 1996 that debates on panpsychism entered the philosophical mainstream. Since then the field has been growing rapidly, and some leading philosophers of mind as well as scientist have argued in favor of panpsychism.This book features contemporary arguments for panpsychism as a genuine alternative in analytic philosophy of mind in the 21st century. Different varieties of panpsychism are represented and systematically related to each other in the volume's 16 essays, which feature not only proponents of panpsychism but also prominent critics from both the physicalist and non-physicalist camps.

ContributorsIntroduction Godehard Bruntrup and Ludwig JaskollaThe Logical Place of PanpsychismPanpsychism and Panprotopsychism David ChalmersEmergent Panpsychism Godehard BruntrupThe Varieties of Panpsychistic OntologiesMind and Being: The Primacy of Panpsychism Galen StrawsonPanpsychism and Priority Cosmopsychism Yujin Nagasawa and Khai WagerIn Search of Mentons: Panpsychism, Physicalism and the Missing Link Berit BrogaardLand Ho? We are Close to a Synoptic Understanding of Consciousness Gregg RosenbergThe Combination Problem for PanpsychismThe Combination Problem for Panpsychism David ChalmersWhat Combination Problem? Barbara Gail MonteroPanpsychist Infusion William SeagerPanpsychism and Neutral Monism: How to Make up One's Mind Sam ColemanThe Phenomenal Bonding Solution to the Combination Problem Philip GoffPanpsychism and its AlternativesMind Dust, Magic, or a Conceptual Gap Only?Brian McLaughlinEmergence and Panpsychism Achim StephanNeutral Monism and Panpsychism Leopold StubenbergDualism and Panpsychism Charles TaliaferroIdealism and Panpsychism Uwe MeixnerIndex