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DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20161031T101500
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SUMMARY:Panpsychism\, Intuitions\, and the Great Chain of Being
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LOCATION:Monash University\, Clayton\, Australia\, 3800
DESCRIPTION:<ul><li><strong>Abstract:</strong>&nbsp\;Panpsychism - the view that all matter is conscious - is undergoing a renewal of interest among analytic philosophers of mind. However\, panpsychism radically violates a widespread pattern of intuitions about what things do and don&rsquo\;t have consciousness\, a pattern which I will label the &lsquo\;great chain of being&rsquo\; intuition: humans are definitely conscious\, vertebrate animals probably conscious\, other animals maybe conscious\, other organisms probably not conscious\, and inanimate things definitely not conscious. Moreover\, insofar as a being&rsquo\;s consciousness is important to the morality of our treatment of it\, panpsychism threatens to de-stabilise our moral practices. Faced with this conflict between theory and apparent &lsquo\;common sense&rsquo\;\, how should a philosopher proceed? I consider four approaches to the conflict\, arguing for an option that partially vindicates but partially debunks the &lsquo\;great chain of being&rsquo\; intuition.</li>\n</ul>
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