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Re:The Best Books on the Philosophy of Mind by hyperpape on Sunday March 18, 2018 @01:09PM (#16612923)
I think that panpsychism is one of a handful of views in contemporary philosophy that ought to be treated as a reductio, but have truly brilliant proponents who have convinced the profession to giving those positions more time than they are due.

To clarify, panpsychism is still a very small minority position.

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Re:The Best Books on the Philosophy of Mind by cgmg on Sunday March 18, 2018 @01:51PM (#16613184)
Why do you think panpsychism "ought to be treated as a reductio"?

Why do you believe panpsychism deserves less time than it receives?

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Re:The Best Books on the Philosophy of Mind by hackinthebochs on Sunday March 18, 2018 @04:07PM (#16614009)
I'm not the OP, but I think the problems with panpsychism are that 1. it creates more problems than it solves (the combination problem and its sub-problems), 2. it's anti-parsimonious, 3. it follows a poor track record of philosophers assuming the mysterious thing in question is fundamental (i.e. ontologically basic) and being proven wrong. Don't know why people insist on making that same mistake.
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