3. Naive Scientism

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Content v
3. Preface vii
4. Preamble ix
5. I. Of Consciousness and Other Things
6. 1. What consciousness is 1
7. 2. The Continuity of Consciousness 9
8. 3. Judgement 20
9. 4. Desire and Will 26
10. 5. Past and Future 30
11. 6. The Method and the Goal of Metaphysics 33
12. 2. Various Conceptions of Physical Reality and their Common Upshot
13. Introduction 39
14. I. Naive Realism 43
15. 2. Subjective Idealism 45
16. 3. Naive Scientism 47
17. 4. Critical Scientism 48
18. 5. Phenomenalism 51
19. 6. Phenomenalist Instrumentalism 65
20. 7. The Physical Thing as Concrete Universal 67
21. 8. The Adverbial Theory of Perception 81
22. 3 The Vindication of Panpsychism 85
23. First argument for panpsychism: It is superior to any other answer ever offered to a certain question which is evidently meaningful 87
24. Second argument for panpsychism : It makes the mind-body relationship more intelligible 96
25. Third argument for panpsychism: It rightly takes as our clue to the nature of noumenal reality in general the one initial example we have of it 105
26. Fourth argument for panpsychism: There is no conceivable sort of concrete actuality but sentience 110
27. Some objections to the fourth argument considered 131
28. 4. The Sentience of the Whole and the Sentience of the Parts
29. Introduction 141
30. 5. Relations
31. 1. Properties and Individual Essences 162
32. 2. Ideal Relations 180
33. 3. Holistic Relations 187
34. 4· 'Prehending' and 'Objectification' 225
35. 5. The Question of External Relations 232
36. 6. Concluding Remark on the Status of Relations 247
37. 6. The Absolute
38. 1. Main Conclusion 250
39. 2. The Compounding of Consciousness 253
40. 3. Judgement again, Memory and Causal Influence 264
41. 4. Types of Monism 271
42. Notes 280
43. Index 286