The mind-body problem, which Schopenhauer called the world-knot,
has been a central problem for philosophy since the time of
Descartes. Among realists--those who accept the reality of the
physical world--the two dominant approaches have been dualism and
materialism, but there is a growing consensus that, if we are ever
to understand how mind and body are related, a radically new
approach is required.
David Ray Griffin develops a third form of realism, one that
resolves the basic problem (common to dualism and materialism) of
the continued acceptance of the Cartesian view of matter. In
dialogue with various philosophers, including Dennett, Kim, McGinn,
Nagel, Seager, Searle, and Strawson, Griffin shows that materialist
physicalism is even more problematic than dualism. He proposes
instead a pan-experientialist physicalism grounded in the process
philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead. Answering those who have
rejected pan-psychism as obviously absurd, Griffin argues
compellingly that pan-experientialism, by taking experience and
spontaneity as fully natural, can finally provide a naturalistic
account of the emergence of consciousness--an account that also
does justice to the freedom that we all presuppose in practice.
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