panpsychist

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From panpsychism +‎ -ist.

Adjective[edit]

panpsychist (comparative more panpsychist, superlative most panpsychist)

  1. Pertaining to, or in accordance with, the doctrine of panpsychism.
    • 1984, Timothy Sprigge, Santayana and Panpsychism, in Overheard in Seville: Bulletin of the Santayana Society, No. 2: Fall 1984, page 1,
      Santayana was certainly not a panpsychist. However, I believe that there are panpsychist tendencies in his work.
    • 2003, Freya Mathews, For Love of Matter: A Contemporary Panpsychism, SUNY Press, page 110:
      Meditational practices are quite consistent with, and even conducive to, a panpsychist outlook, but the aim of panpsychism is not to attain enlightenment.
    • 2019, Jennifer McWeeny, “The Panpsychism Question in Merleau-Ponty's Ontology”, in Emmanuel Alloa, Frank Chouraqui, Rajiv Kaushik, editors, Merleau-Ponty and Contemporary Philosophy, SUNY Press, page 138:
      However, seeds have been planted for a panpsychist reading in the suggestion that in order to truly move beyond the consciousness-object distinction Merleau-Ponty's ontology would need to be more panpsychist than those of Leibniz and Scheler, not less.

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Noun[edit]

panpsychist (plural panpsychists)

  1. A proponent of panpsychism.
    • 2021, Meghan O'Gieblyn, chapter 9, in God, Human, Animal, Machine [] , →ISBN:
      As the philosopher Philip Goff, one of the most prominent contemporary panpsychists, has pointed out, our belief that science will solve the mystery of consciousness, given that it triumphed in so many other areas, ignores that its success was predicated in the first place on the exclusion of the mind.