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Josiah Royce is explicitly identified as a prominent historical exponent of panpsychism [1], [2], [3], and he developed a specific synecological variety of the theory [4]. His work is further linked to the concept through his use of idealism as a metaphysical foundation for his panpsychist arguments [5], [6], [7].
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Panpsychism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2015 Edition) plato.stanford.edu 4 facts
perspectiveJosiah Royce was an idealist who utilized underlying metaphysical assumptions, specifically idealism, to provide an overarching argument for panpsychism.
claimJosiah Royce's panpsychism was of the synecological variety, meaning that while every thing participates in the conscious life of the world self, not every object within the world of experience is necessarily conscious itself.
referenceTimothy Sprigge defends an idealist-based panpsychism, similar to that of Josiah Royce, in his 1983 book 'A Vindication of Absolute Idealism'.
claimProminent exponents of distinctive forms of panpsychism in the nineteenth century included Gustav Fechner, Wilhelm Wundt, Rudolf Hermann Lotze, William James, Josiah Royce, and William Clifford.
Panpsychism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu 2 facts
claimProminent historical exponents of distinctive forms of panpsychism include Gustav Fechner (1801–1887), Wilhelm Wundt (1832–1920), Rudolf Hermann Lotze (1817–1881), William James (1842–1910), Josiah Royce (1855–1916), and William Clifford (1845–1879).
claimGustav Fechner and Josiah Royce developed panpsychist accounts of nature that did not attribute mental properties to the smallest bits of matter, which challenges the definition of panpsychism that mentality must be fundamental.
Panpsychism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu 2 facts
claimIdealism, as a metaphysical assumption, can provide an overarching argument for panpsychism, and many nineteenth-century panpsychists, including Josiah Royce, were idealists.
referenceThe Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Panpsychism lists related entries including George Berkeley, consciousness, René Descartes, dualism, emergent properties, epiphenomenalism, Charles Hartshorne, William James, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, mereology, monism, neutral monism, pantheism, physicalism, qualia, quantum theory and consciousness, Josiah Royce, Baruch Spinoza, Alfred North Whitehead, and Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt.
Panpsychism - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 1 fact
claimPhilosophers Arthur Schopenhauer, C.S. Peirce, Josiah Royce, William James, Eduard von Hartmann, F.C.S. Schiller, Ernst Haeckel, William Kingdon Clifford, and Thomas Carlyle promoted panpsychist ideas during the 19th century.