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Galen Strawson is a prominent contemporary philosopher and advocate for panpsychism, having authored influential works such as 'Realistic Monism: Why Physicalism Entails Panpsychism' {fact:5, fact:10, fact:25}. He defends the theory by arguing that true physicalism necessitates panpsychism to avoid the 'magic' of radical emergence {fact:17, fact:19, fact:23}.
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Critique of Panpsychism: Philosophical Coherence and Scientific ... thequran.love 5 facts
claimGalen Strawson notes that many people's initial reaction to panpsychism is an 'incredulous stare,' as the idea that a photon or a spoon has any sort of experience seems absurd or crazy.
claimGalen Strawson argues in his 2006 paper 'Realistic Monism: Why Physicalism Entails Panpsychism' that denying experiential reality is not true physicalism and that the emergence of experiential reality from non-experiential reality is 'magic'.
perspectiveGalen Strawson and Philip Goff argue that the seeming strangeness of panpsychism is not a decisive strike against it, noting that science has previously accepted counterintuitive ideas like relativity and quantum mechanics.
perspectiveGalen Strawson argues that true physicalism, defined as a physicalism that does not deny the reality of consciousness, necessitates panpsychism.
claimGalen Strawson and Philip Goff are prominent contemporary advocates of panpsychism who view the theory as the only viable way to take consciousness seriously without abandoning a monistic worldview.
Panpsychism - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 4 facts
claimDavid Chalmers, Annaka Harris, and Galen Strawson are proponents of panpsychism who utilize the reasoning that extrinsic physical properties must have corresponding intrinsic properties.
perspectiveGalen Strawson describes panpsychism as a form of physicalism, and in his view, the only viable form.
claimPanpsychism has seen a recent resurgence in the philosophy of mind, initiated by Thomas Nagel's 1979 article "Panpsychism" and spurred by Galen Strawson's 2006 article "Realistic Monism: Why Physicalism Entails Panpsychism."
claimGalen Strawson refers to Bertrand Russell's panpsychism as "realistic physicalism."
Panpsychism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu 3 facts
claimThe 'Intrinsic Nature Argument' for panpsychism has historical roots in the works of Leibniz, Schopenhauer, Bertrand Russell (1927), and Alfred North Whitehead (1933 [1967]), and is supported by contemporary philosophers including T.L.S. Sprigge (1999), Galen Strawson (2003), and Philip Goff (2017).
claimGalen Strawson argues that a non-panpsychist reduction of consciousness is impossible.
perspectivePhilip Goff (2006, 2017) argues that panpsychists may be unable to provide a wholly intelligible explanation for how macro-level consciousness emerges from micro-level consciousness, which challenges Galen Strawson's claim that panpsychism avoids radical emergence.
Non-physicalist Theories of Consciousness cambridge.org 2 facts
claimGalen Strawson's argument regarding brute emergence supports panpsychism (in its strong version) or panprotopsychism (in its weak version), which are views that fundamental physical entities are conscious or protoconscious.
perspectiveGalen Strawson endorses the dual-aspect monism version of panpsychism, which posits that fundamental physical entities are conscious or protoconscious because that is the intrinsic nature of their physical structure.
Panpsychism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2015 Edition) plato.stanford.edu 2 facts
claimGalen Strawson's general argument for panpsychism is a version of the intrinsic nature argument, which is akin to Russellian neutral monism, with the distinction that the substrate is explicitly taken to be experiential in nature rather than metaphysically neutral.
referenceGalen Strawson authored 'Consciousness and Its Place in Nature: Does Physicalism Entail Panpsychism?', edited by A. Freeman and published in 2006 by Imprint Academic.
Panpsychism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2025 Edition) plato.stanford.edu 2 facts
quoteGalen Strawson defended an argument for the truth of panpsychism based on the untenability of radical emergence, arguing that 'Emergence can’t be brute'.
claimThe intrinsic nature argument for panpsychism is defended by philosophers including Michael Lockwood Sprigge (1999), Galen Strawson (2003), and Philip Goff (2017).
Hard problem of consciousness - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 2 facts
perspectiveDavid Chalmers and Galen Strawson both state that panpsychism is, in a sense, a form of physicalism.
claimThomas Nagel, Galen Strawson, Philip Goff, and David Chalmers have revived interest in panpsychism and neutral monism in recent decades.
Panpsychism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu 2 facts
claimA new group of young philosophers defending various forms of panpsychism has emerged, largely influenced by the work of Galen Strawson, with their views sampled in Skrbina (2009).
claimProminent explicit defenders of panpsychism in the contemporary era include Galen Strawson, David Griffin, Gregg Rosenberg, David Skrbina, and the late Timothy Sprigge.
Panpsychism: Conscious Rocks and Socks - Free Thinking Ministries freethinkingministries.com 1 fact
claimGalen Strawson is a prominent advocate for the panpsychist views held by Philip Goff.
Review of "Consciousness and its Place in Nature" - jstor jstor.org 1 fact
perspectiveGalen Strawson defends and explores a 'naturalistic' variety of panpsychism.
PANPSYCHISM (Philosophy of Mind Series) - Amazon.com amazon.com 1 fact
quoteGalen Strawson stated in the book "Panpsychism": "I can see no good reason to accept [that] ... a plurality of subjects can’t possibly combine to form or generate a single subject."
(PDF) Quantum Mechanics and Consciousness - Academia.edu academia.edu 1 fact
referenceGalen Strawson argued that physicalism entails panpsychism in his 2006 article 'Realistic Materialism: Why Physicalism Entails Panpsychism'.