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Josiah Royce
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Panpsychism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2015 Edition) plato.stanford.edu May 23, 2001 10 facts
perspectiveJosiah Royce was an idealist who utilized underlying metaphysical assumptions, specifically idealism, to provide an overarching argument for panpsychism.
referenceJosiah Royce authored 'The World and the Individual', published in 1901 by Macmillan.
claimGustav Fechner (1801-1887) and Josiah Royce (1855-1916) developed panpsychist accounts of nature that did not necessarily attribute mental properties to the ultimate constituents of systems.
perspectiveJosiah Royce and Rudolf Hermann Lotze represent 'idealist panpsychism,' a view where the primary motivation for ascribing mental attributes to matter is the belief that matter is, in essence, a form of mind.
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.
claimJosiah Royce argued that the time scale of a conscious mind can vary tremendously, suggesting that the consciousness of a galaxy processes billions of times slower than human consciousness, while subatomic particles might process billions of times faster.
perspectiveJosiah Royce believed that conscious beings include humans, planets, stars, galaxies, and species.
claimJosiah Royce (1855-1916) was a teacher and defender of monistic idealism, holding a philosophical role in America similar to that of F. H. Bradley in Britain.
Panpsychism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Jul 18, 2017 4 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).
perspectiveJosiah Royce and Rudolf Hermann Lotze advocated for 'idealist panpsychism,' a view where the ascription of mental attributes to matter is motivated by the belief that matter is essentially a form of mind.
claimGustav Fechner and Josiah Royce held that the ontological foundation of reality is a "world-soul" or "world-mind" of which everything is a part.
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 May 23, 2001 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 2 facts
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.
perspectiveJosiah Royce held that reality is a 'world self,' which is a conscious being comprising everything, though he did not necessarily attribute mental properties to the smallest constituents of mentalistic systems.