Acknowledgments | p. ix |
Panpsychism and the Ontology of Mind | |
The Importance of Panpsychism | p. 1 |
Basic Concepts in Ontology and Mind | p. 5 |
Background on Monism | p. 8 |
Dualism and Interaction | p. 12 |
Panpsychism Defined | p. 15 |
Ancient Origins | |
Ancient Greece and the "Hylozoist" Tradition---The Pre-Socratics | p. 23 |
Plato | p. 34 |
Aristotle | p. 45 |
Epicurus and the Atomic Swerve | p. 51 |
Stoicism and the Pneuma | p. 53 |
Remnants of Panpsychism in the Early Christian Era | p. 58 |
Developments in the Renaissance (Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Europe) | |
Transition to the Renaissance | p. 65 |
Four Italian Naturalists: Cardano, Telesio, Patrizi, and Bruno | p. 67 |
Gilbert and the Soul of the Magnet | p. 76 |
Campanella and the Seventeenth Century | p. 77 |
The Early Scientific Philosophers | p. 81 |
Spinoza | p. 87 |
Locke and Newton | p. 91 |
Leibniz | p. 95 |
Continental Panpsychism of the Eighteenth Century | |
French Vitalistic Materialism | p. 101 |
Kant and Priestly | p. 108 |
German Romanticism and the Naturphilosophie | p. 112 |
Panpsychism, Mechanism, and Science in Nineteenth-Century Germany | |
Schopenhauer | p. 117 |
Fechner | p. 122 |
Other Scientist-Philosophers of the Age | p. 126 |
A Survey of the Field | p. 133 |
Nietzsche and the Will to Power | p. 137 |
The Anglo-American Perspective | |
Anglo-American Panpsychism of the Late Nineteenth Century | p. 141 |
William James | p. 145 |
Royce, Peirce, and Other Sympathetic Thinkers | p. 149 |
Panpsychism in the Twentieth Century, Part I: 1900-1950 | |
Bergson and the Early-Twentieth-Century Panpsychists | p. 157 |
Schiller | p. 162 |
Alexander, Lossky, Troland, and Dewey | p. 165 |
The Process Philosophers---Whitehead and Russell | p. 174 |
Phenomenology | p. 180 |
Teilhard de Chardin | p. 182 |
Scientific Perspectives | |
Historical Arguments from the Scientific and Empirical Perspectives | p. 185 |
Panpsychism in Early- and Mid-Twentieth-Century Science | p. 188 |
Bateson | p. 196 |
Recent Scientific Implications | p. 198 |
Bohm and the Implicate Order | p. 202 |
Panpsychism in the Twentieth Century, Part II: 1950-Present | |
Hartshorne | p. 208 |
Developments in the 1960s and the 1970s | p. 217 |
Mind in Nature: Panpsychism and Environmental Philosophy | p. 223 |
Recent Thoughts, Pro and Con | p. 235 |
Toward and Panpsychist Worldview | |
An Assessment of the Arguments | p. 249 |
Opposing Views | p. 255 |
Into the Third Millennium | p. 265 |
Notes | p. 271 |
Bibliography | p. 291 |
Index | p. 307 |
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