Consciousness and Its Place in Nature: Does Physicalism Entail Panpsychism?

by Galen Strawson, Peter Carruthers, Frank Jackson

For the last five years philosopher Galen Strawson has provoked a mixture of shock and scepticism with his carefully argued case that physicalism (the view that every real, concrete phenomenon in the universe is physical) entails panpsychism (the view that the existence of every real concrete thing involves experiential being). In this book Strawson provides the fullest and most careful statement of his position to date, throwing down the gauntlet...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845400593
• ISBN13: 9781845400590
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Imprint Academic (Ips)
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.0"