Understanding Emergence

The subject of this chapter is the concept of emergence. A thorough discussion of the notion and various accounts of it will provide us with a better understanding of emergentist versions of dualism as discussed in the next chapter and, moreover, provide

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Panpsychism and the Emergence of Consciousness A Proposal for a New Solution to the Mind-Body Problem

Panpsychism and the Emergence of Consciousness

Fabian Klinge

Panpsychism and the Emergence of Consciousness A Proposal for a New Solution to the Mind-Body Problem

Fabian Klinge Universität Tübingen Tübingen, Germany Dissertation zur Erlangung des akademischen Grades Doktor der Philosophie in der Philosophischen Fakultät der Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, angenommen im Sommersemester 2019. Gefördert durch ein Promotionsstipendium der Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, 2015–2018.

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Table of Contents List of Figures and Tables..........................................................................................................ix Acknowledgments......................................................................................................................xi 1 Introduction...........................................................................................................................xiii 2 Physicalism and Fundamentalism............................................................................................1 2.1 Metaphysical Dependence................................................................................................1 2.1.1 Identity, Multiple Realizability, and Functionalism.................................................2 2.1.2 The Hyp

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