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William Seager
Also known as: William Hasker
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Panpsychism - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 5 facts
claimWilliam Seager argues for the 'Intrinsic Nature Argument for Panpsychism' in his 2006 paper published in the Journal of Consciousness Studies.
perspectivePhilosophers William Seager and Sean Allen-Hermanson state that idealists are panpsychists by default.
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.
claimThe combination problem in panpsychism, which relates to the binding problem, was traced to William James but was given its current name by William Seager in 1995.
claimRecent proponents of panpsychism include David Ray Griffin, David Skrbina, Gregg Rosenberg, Timothy Sprigge, Philip Goff, and William Seager.
Moving Forward on the Problem of Consciousness - David Chalmers consc.net 4 facts
claimWilliam Seager invokes quantum coherence as a strategy to explain the unity of experience, suggesting that physical composition in this context could yield a unity that mirrors the unity of experience.
claimGregg Rosenberg and William Seager have published defenses of panpsychism against objections and have criticized David Chalmers for not adopting a sufficiently panpsychist position.
accountThe symposium on David Chalmers' paper 'Facing Up to the Problem of Consciousness' included 26 commentaries from various scholars, including Bernard Baars, Douglas Bilodeau, Patricia Churchland, Tom Clark, C.J.S. Clarke, Francis Crick, Christof Koch, Daniel Dennett, Stuart Hameroff, Roger Penrose, Valerie Hardcastle, David Hodgson, Piet Hut, Roger Shepard, Benjamin Libet, E.J. Lowe, Bruce MacLennan, Colin McGinn, Eugene Mills, Kieron O'Hara, Tom Scutt, Mark Price, William Robinson, Gregg Rosenberg, William Seager, Jonathan Shear, Henry Stapp, Francisco Varela, Max Velmans, and Richard Warner.
claimThe theoretical proposals regarding consciousness by Piet Hut, Roger Shepard, Gregg Rosenberg, and William Seager are explicitly panpsychist.
Panpsychism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Jul 18, 2017 4 facts
perspectiveWilliam Seager views the post-fusion conscious brain as a 'big simple' that entirely lacks parts.
claimPiet Hut, Roger Shepard, Gregg Rosenberg, and William Seager wrote articles responding to David Chalmers' views on panpsychism in the 1997 collection edited by Shear.
claimWilliam Seager and Sean Allen-Hermanson developed Section 1 of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Panpsychism, and paragraphs from their earlier version were retained in later sections of the July 2017 update.
claimWilliam Seager (2016) and Hedda Hassel Mørch (2014) independently defended a non-layered form of panpsychist emergentism known as fusionism.
Panpsychism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2015 Edition) plato.stanford.edu May 23, 2001 2 facts
referenceWilliam Seager argues in his 1999 book that there is a mode of combination in quantum mechanics that goes beyond what William James allows and has an affinity with psychological notions through non-causal information exchange.
referenceWilliam Seager authored 'Theories of Consciousness', published in 1999 by Routledge.
Hard problem of consciousness - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 2 facts
referenceDavid J. Chalmers authored the chapter 'Idealism and the Mind–Body Problem' in 'The Routledge Handbook of Panpsychism', edited by William Seager and published by Routledge in 2020.
referencePhilip Goff, William Seager, and Sean Allen-Hermanson authored the entry 'Panpsychism' for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited by Edward N. Zalta in 2017.
The Hard Problem of Consciousness | Springer Nature Link link.springer.com 2 facts
Panpsychism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2025 Edition) plato.stanford.edu May 23, 2001 2 facts
claimIn William Seager's view of fusionism, the post-fusion conscious brain lacks parts and is considered a 'big simple'.
claimPhilip Goff is the primary author of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry on Panpsychism starting from the July 2017 version, with Section 1 developed from a previous version by William Seager and Sean Allen-Hermanson.
Quantum Approaches to Consciousness plato.stanford.edu Nov 30, 2004 1 fact
referenceWilliam Seager edited the Routledge Handbook of Panpsychism, published by Routledge in 2020.
Consciousness (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2025 ... plato.stanford.edu Jun 18, 2004 1 fact
claimWilliam Hasker supported emergent property dualism in 1999.
Panpsychism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu May 23, 2001 1 fact
claimDavid Chalmers (1996), Piet Hut, Roger Shepard, Gregg Rosenberg, and William Seager (in Shear, 1997) have approached the problem of consciousness in ways sympathetic to panpsychism without providing full-scale defenses.
Non-physicalist Theories of Consciousness cambridge.org Dec 20, 2023 1 fact
claimIn recent decades, dual-aspect monism has gained wider recognition as a distinct non-physicalist theory due to defenses by philosophers including David Chalmers (1995, 1996, 2003, 2013, 2016), William Seager (1995, 2010), Daniel Stoljar (2001), Galen Strawson (2006, 2016), and Philip Goff (2017).