panpsychist

comparative more panpsychist · superlative most panpsychist

1. Pertaining to, or in accordance with, the doctrine of panpsychism.

   1984, Timothy Sprigge, Santayana and Panpsychism, in Overheard in Seville: Bulletin of the Santayana Society, No. 2: Fall 1984, page 1, Santayana was certainly not a panpsychist. However, I believe that there are panpsychist tendencies in his work.

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   Meditational practices are quite consistent with, and even conducive to, a panpsychist outlook, but the aim of panpsychism is not to attain enlightenment.

   2003, Freya Mathews, For Love of Matter: A Contemporary Panpsychism, SUNY Press, page 110

   However, seeds have been planted for a panpsychist reading in the suggestion that in order to truly move beyond the consciousness-object distinction Merleau-Ponty's ontology would need to be more panpsychist than those of Leibniz and Scheler, not less.

   2019, Jennifer McWeeny, “The Panpsychism Question in Merleau-Ponty's Ontology”, in Emmanuel Alloa, Frank Chouraqui, Rajiv Kaushik, editors, Merleau-Ponty and Contemporary Philosophy, SUNY Press, page 138

plural panpsychists

1. A proponent of panpsychism.

   Some advocates of this view are panpsychists, although a panpsychist can also reject idealism, claiming that there is more to reality than just minds or experiences.¹⁷

   2019, Susan Schneider, Artificial You: AI and the Future of Your Mind, Princeton University Press, page 130

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   As the philosopher Philip Goff, one of the most prominent contemporary panpsychists, has pointed out, our belief that science will solve the mystery of consciousness, given that it triumphed in so many other areas, ignores that its success was predicated in the first place on the exclusion of the mind.

   2021, Meghan O'Gieblyn, chapter 9, in God, Human, Animal, Machine […] , →ISBN