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Alfred North Whitehead is a prominent historical figure associated with panpsychism, as evidenced by his inclusion in lists of key panpsychist philosophers [1] and his defense of the theory in works like 'Process and Reality' [2]. His specific metaphysical framework, which interprets elementary events as possessing mentality, is widely recognized as a significant contribution to the development of panpsychist thought {fact:1, fact:2, fact:9}.
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Panpsychism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2015 Edition) plato.stanford.edu 8 facts
claimAlfred North Whitehead represents the culmination of nineteenth-century panpsychist thinking, with his work appearing simultaneously with the development of emergentism by thinkers such as C. Lloyd Morgan and C. D. Broad.
perspectiveAlfred North Whitehead supported panpsychism while embracing the necessity of emergence, describing it as "the destiny of the many to enter into a novel unity, an additional reality," which implies an emergent or creative synthesis as a principle of reality.
claimPanpsychism was relegated to the sidelines of philosophical discourse for approximately fifty years following the 1929 publication of Alfred North Whitehead's 'Process and Reality' and the 1925 publication of C.D. Broad's 'Mind and Its Place in Nature' because it was viewed as an unwarranted philosophical extension of scientific belief.
claimAlfred North Whitehead's panpsychism posits that the elementary events constituting the world, which he termed 'occasions,' possess mentality in an attenuated sense, expressed through the mentalistic notions of creativity, spontaneity, and perception.
claimSome modern panpsychists, beginning with Alfred North Whitehead, have attempted to interpret the indeterminacy found in quantum mechanics as an expression of spontaneous freedom rather than blind chance or mechanical causation.
claimAlfred North Whitehead's panpsychism is dependent upon his entire metaphysical system, which entails a more radical revision of the scientifically based picture of the world than panpsychism alone requires.
referenceDavid Ray Griffin provides a clear introduction to and defense of Alfred North Whitehead's panpsychism in his 1998 work, while Charles Hartshorne offers an alternative interpretation and pantheistic reworking of Whitehead's ideas in his 1972 writings.
claimAlfred North Whitehead's panpsychism stems from an anti-emergentist intuition and faces the same general objections as other versions of panpsychism.
Panpsychism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu 4 facts
referenceCharles Hartshorne (1897-2000) offers an interpretation and pantheistic reworking of Alfred North Whitehead's panpsychism, such as in his 1972 work.
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.
claimAlfred North Whitehead's panpsychism is linked to an anti-emergentist intuition and requires a radical revision of the current scientifically based picture of the world.
perspectiveAlfred North Whitehead embraced the necessity of emergence within his panpsychist framework, viewing reality as a process of creative synthesis.
Panpsychism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu 2 facts
claimAlfred North Whitehead's panpsychism is based on the idea that the elementary events that make up the world, which he called "occasions," partake of mentality in an attenuated sense, expressed through notions of creativity, spontaneity, and perception.
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).
Panpsychism - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 2 facts
perspectiveThe Wikipedia article on Panpsychism argues that it is a widespread misconception that Alfred North Whitehead was panpsychism's most significant 20th-century proponent.
claimPanpsychism is one of the oldest philosophical theories and has been historically ascribed to philosophers including Thales, Plato, Spinoza, Leibniz, Schopenhauer, William James, Alfred North Whitehead, and Bertrand Russell.
Philosophical perspectives on consciousness | Humans - Vocal Media vocal.media 1 fact
claimAlfred North Whitehead and Philip Goff argue that panpsychism provides a more coherent explanation for the emergence of consciousness than physicalism.
Hard problem of consciousness - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 1 fact
claimWilliam James, Alfred North Whitehead, Arthur Eddington, and Bertrand Russell defended forms of panpsychism and neutral monism in the early twentieth century.