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monism

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The Hard Problem of Consciousness | Springer Nature Link link.springer.com Springer 6 facts

accountDavid Chalmers began his research by elaborating on the epistemological, ontological, and logical implications of various proposals by other authors and categorizing them into different types of ontological constellations, such as monism and dualism.

claimOntological models are often categorized as 'monism' (including neutral monism, dual aspect monism, type-F monism, and Russell's monism) or 'dualism' (including aspect-dualism and naturalistic dualism) based on how they interpret properties as aspects or emergent ontic categories.

claimSome ontologies treated as 'monisms' suggest that both physical and phenomenal properties supervene on, or are aspects of, a more fundamental ontic category or principle, thereby avoiding the problem of treating them as two separate existing categories.

claimThe author defines 'monism' exclusively as eliminative monisms (referred to as 'negative approaches' by von Stillfried in 2018) and classifies all non-eliminative ontologies (von Stillfried's 'positive approaches') as types of dualism, specifically distinguishing between substance and aspect dualism.

claimSimple causal mechanisms or 'weak' emergence are insufficient to solve the problem of consciousness because they would result in reductionist accounts of consciousness and monism.

claimDavid Chalmers concluded in 2016 that the distinction between labels like 'dualism' and 'monism' for his ontological models is a largely verbal question.

Critique of Panpsychism: Philosophical Coherence and Scientific ... thequran.love Zia H Shah MD · The Muslim Times May 7, 2025 1 fact

claimPanpsychism is a form of monism that posits there is one kind of physical stuff in the world, but that stuff possesses both an inward experiential face and an outward structural face.

Not Minds, but Signs: Reframing LLMs through Semiotics - arXiv arxiv.org arXiv Jul 1, 2025 1 fact

perspectiveTranslating Baruch Spinoza's complex metaphysics—including monism, parallelism, and the theory of affects—into the TED format involves compressing conceptual density into emotionally charged metaphors, which increases accessibility but risks flattening the philosophical terrain.

Dualism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Winter 2016 Edition) plato.stanford.edu Howard Robinson · Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Aug 19, 2003 1 fact

claimDualism contrasts with monism, which is the theory that there is only one fundamental kind or category of thing, and with pluralism, which is the view that there are many kinds or categories.

Non-physicalist Theories of Consciousness cambridge.org Cambridge University Press Dec 20, 2023 1 fact

claimMonism is the philosophical view that there is only one kind of stuff or substance, and this category includes physicalism, subjective idealism, property dualism, and dual-aspect monism.

Panpsychism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Jul 18, 2017 1 fact

referenceJonathan Schaffer argued for monism and the priority of the whole in a 2010 article in 'Philosophical Review'.

Panpsychism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu William Seager, Sean Allen-Hermanson · Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy May 23, 2001 1 fact

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.