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Hedda Hassel Mørch
Also known as: Mørch
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Panpsychism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2025 Edition) plato.stanford.edu May 23, 2001 4 facts
claimHedda Hassel Mørch develops her version of fusionism as a form of the integrated information theory of consciousness, a neuroscientific theory that arguably has panpsychist implications.
claimHedda Hassel Mørch argues against David Hume that experience reveals a necessary connection between the mental events of feeling pain and trying to avoid pain, using this as a basis for panpsychism.
claimHedda Hassel Mørch reformulated an argument for panpsychism based on the experience of causation.
claimIn Hedda Hassel Mørch's view of fusionism, the post-fusion conscious brain retains parts, but the parts are dependent for their existence upon the brain, reversing the pre-fusion dependency.
Panpsychism - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 4 facts
perspectiveHedda Hassel Mørch advocates for a view of panpsychism arguing that the only causal powers we can positively conceive of are mental properties, specifically those involving volition, motivation, or agency.
referenceHedda Hassel Mørch authored the 2019 paper titled "Is the Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness Compatible with Russellian Panpsychism?" which was published in the journal Erkenntnis.
perspectivePhilosopher Hedda Hassel Mørch views Integrated Information Theory (IIT) as similar to Russellian monism.
referenceHedda Hassel Mørch authored the chapter 'The Argument for Panpsychism from Experience of Causation' in 'The Routledge Handbook of Panpsychism', edited by William Seager and published by Routledge in 2019.
Panpsychism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Jul 18, 2017 3 facts
perspectiveHedda Hassel Mørch views the post-fusion conscious brain as having parts, but argues that while pre-fusion the brain was dependent on its parts, post-fusion the parts are dependent on the brain.
perspectiveHedda Hassel Mørch (2014) defends a form of panpsychism involving partially intelligible emergence, arguing that it is preferable to fully brute emergence.
claimWilliam Seager (2016) and Hedda Hassel Mørch (2014) independently defended a non-layered form of panpsychist emergentism known as fusionism.
Hard problem of consciousness - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 1 fact
referenceHedda Hassel Mørch published an article titled 'The Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness' in Philosophy Now in 2017.