Mind and Matter Panpsychism, Dual-Aspect Monism, and the Combination

In this book, the author takes a stand for a variant of panpsychism as being the best solution available to the mind-body problem. More exactly, he defends a view that can be labelled 'dual-aspect-pan-proto-psychism'. Panpsychism claims that mentality is

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Jiri Benovsky

Mind and Matter Panpsychism, Dual-Aspect Monism, and the Combination Problem

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Jiri Benovsky University of Fribourg Fribourg, Switzerland and University of Neuchâtel Neuchâtel, Switzerland

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