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Thomas Nagel is a central figure in the modern resurgence of panpsychism, having famously argued for its viability in his 1979 article 'Panpsychism' {fact:1, fact:6, fact:12}. His philosophical work establishes the necessity of panpsychism as a way to avoid the failures of reductionism and emergentism {fact:3, fact:4, fact:13}.
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Panpsychism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2015 Edition) plato.stanford.edu 4 facts
claimThe argument presented by Thomas Nagel regarding panpsychism is criticized for lacking proof that a more radical form of emergentism is impossible.
claimThomas Nagel, in his 1979 article 'Panpsychism,' argues that emergentism fails as a metaphysical relation, which he links to the necessity of panpsychism.
quoteThomas Nagel remarked that panpsychism has “the faintly sickening odor of something put together in the metaphysical laboratory”.
quoteThomas Nagel stated in his 1979 article 'Panpsychism': 'there are no truly emergent properties of complex systems. All properties of complex systems that are not relations between it and something else derive from the properties of its constituents and their effects on each other when so combined.'
Panpsychism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu 3 facts
claimThomas Nagel argued that adopting a view like panpsychism is the only way to avoid what he termed 'emergence'.
claimThomas Nagel published an important form of the anti-emergence argument for panpsychism in 1979.
claimThomas Nagel's argument for panpsychism relies on four premises: Material Composition (living organisms are complex material systems with no immaterial parts), Realism (mental states are genuine properties of living organisms), No Radical Emergence (all properties of a complex organism are intelligibly derived from the properties of its parts), and Non-Reductionism (mental states are not intelligibly derived from physical properties alone).
Panpsychism - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 2 facts
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."
referenceIn the book 'Mortal Questions' (1979), Thomas Nagel argues that panpsychism follows from four premises: (P1) everything that exists is material, (P2) consciousness is irreducible to lower-level physical properties, (P3) consciousness exists, and (P4) higher-order properties of matter can be reduced to lower-level properties.
Consciousness (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2025 ... plato.stanford.edu 1 fact
claimPanpsychism is a perspective that regards all constituents of reality as having psychic or proto-psychic properties distinct from their physical properties, as noted by Thomas Nagel (1979).
PANPSYCHISM (Philosophy of Mind Series) - Amazon.com amazon.com 1 fact
claimThomas Nagel argued in 1979 that if reductionism and dualism fail, and a non-reductionist form of strong emergence cannot be made intelligible, then panpsychism—the thesis that mental being is a fundamental and ubiquitous feature of the universe—might be a viable alternative.
(PDF) Quantum Mechanics and Consciousness - Academia.edu academia.edu 1 fact
referenceThomas Nagel discussed panpsychism in his 1979 work 'Panpsychism', published in 'Mortal Questions'.
Hard problem of consciousness - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 1 fact
claimThomas Nagel, Galen Strawson, Philip Goff, and David Chalmers have revived interest in panpsychism and neutral monism in recent decades.