Problems for Constitutive Russellian Panpsychism

Abstract

In the last chapter, the rationale panpsychists provide for the view that there are microsubjects bearing microphenomenal properties which act as both realizers of microphysical dispositions and grounding bases for macrophenomenality was discussed. We saw how this proposal avoids severe problems of mental causation as well as emergence, and that it renders categoricalism intelligible. But the postulation of microphenomenality gives rise to a crucial question: how do microsubjects and their microphenomenal properties combine in order to constitute macrosubjects and their macrophenomenal properties? This is the so-called combination problem.