Panpsychism possesses a metaphysical advantage over emergentism because it avoids the difficulty of explaining how consciousness emerges from matter and the risk of making emergent features causally impotent or epiphenomenal.

Authors

• Person: William Seager, Sean Allen-Hermanson Organization: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  Panpsychism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2015 Edition)

Sources

• Panpsychism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2015 Edition) plato.stanford.edu William Seager, Sean Allen-Hermanson · Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy via serper
• Panpsychism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu William Seager, Sean Allen-Hermanson · Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy via serper

Referenced by nodes (4)

• panpsychism concept
• matter concept
• consciousness concept
• emergentism concept