Emergence in Panpsychism

Abstract

In the last chapter, I argued that constitutive Russellian panpsychism is false, since several of arguments against phenomenal constitution are sound. Yet it follows from the findings of Chapters 3 and 5 that there are strong reasons for assuming that some form of Russellian panpsychism must be true: physicalism seems incapable of overcoming epistemic objections such as Chalmers’ two-dimensional argument, and dualism faces apparently irresolvable difficulties with regard to mental causation. Russellian panpsychism, by contrast, is not subject to antiphysicalist objections, and avoids dualism’s mental causation problems for microphenomenal causal efficiency.