Consciousness and Fundamental Reality ISBN: 9780190677015

Cover......Page 1
Consciousness and Fundamental Reality......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 12
1. The Reality of Consciousness......Page 16
1.1.1 The Datum of Consciousness......Page 17
1.1.2 Science and Metaphysics......Page 20
1.1.3 The Philosophical Foundations of Physics......Page 26
1.2.1 Physicalism......Page 29
1.2.2 Russellian Monism......Page 32
Part I Against Physicalism......Page 36
2. What Is Physicalism?......Page 38
2.1.1 A Priori and A Posteriori Definitions of the Physical......Page 39
2.1.2 Hempel’s Dilemma and Physics-​Based Responses to It......Page 40
2.1.3 Pure Physicalism......Page 44
2.1.4 Naturalism and Value-​Laden Causal Explanations......Page 46
2.1.5 Against A Posteriori Definitions of the Physical......Page 51
2.1.6 Definitions of Physicality and Materiality......Page 54
2.2 The Nature of Fundamentality......Page 56
2.2.1 Constitutive Grounding and the Free Lunch Constraint......Page 57
2.2.2 Grounding by Analysis......Page 59
2.2.3 A Grounding Account of Physicalism......Page 63
2.2.4.1 Accounts of Fundamentality in Philosophy of Mind......Page 70
2.2.4.2 Accounts of Fundamentality in Metaphysics......Page 75
3. The Knowledge Argument......Page 79
3.1 Black and White Mary......Page 80
3.2.1 The No-​Compromise Response......Page 81
3.2.2 Non-​Propositional Knowledge Responses......Page 84
3.2.3 The New Truth/​Old Property Response......Page 86
3.3 Transparency and Opacity: The Moral of the Story......Page 89
4. The Conceivability Argument......Page 91
4.1.1 Ghosts and Zombies......Page 92
4.1.2 Clarifying Conceivability......Page 96
4.2 Type-​A and Type-​B Physicalism......Page 97
4.3.1 The Two-​Dimensional Conceivability Principle......Page 101
4.3.2 Against the Two-​Dimensional Conceivability Principle......Page 105
4.3.3 The Transparency Conceivability Principle......Page 111
5. Revelation and the Transparency Argument......Page 121
5.1 Revelation and Transparency......Page 122
5.2 The Case for Revelation......Page 124
5.3 Can the Physicalist Account for Super-​Justification?......Page 130
5.4 Full and Partial Revelation......Page 135
5.5 The Conceivability Argument and the Transparency Argument......Page 137
5.6 The Dual Carving Objection......Page 140
Part II Russellian Monism: An Alternative......Page 148
6.1.1 The Austerity Problem......Page 150
6.1.2 Against Causal Structuralism......Page 152
6.1.3 Introducing Impure Physicalism......Page 156
6.1.4 Introducing Russellian Monism......Page 157
6.1.5 The Distinction between Russellian Monism and Physicalism......Page 160
6.1.6 The Transparency Argument against Physicalism......Page 162
6.2.1 Constitutive and Emergentist Forms of Russellian monism......Page 164
6.2.2 The Causal Exclusion Problem......Page 168
6.2.3 Panqualityism......Page 173
6.2.4 A Promising View......Page 177
7. Panpsychism versus Panprotopsychism and the Subject-​Summing Problem......Page 180
7.1 The Threat of Noumenalism......Page 181
7.2 The Simplicity Argument for Panpsychism......Page 184
7.3 The Subject-​Summing Problem......Page 186
7.3.1 James’s Anti-​Subject-​Summing Argument......Page 187
7.3.2.1 The Argument......Page 188
7.3.2.2 Fusionism and the Anti-​Subject-​Summing Conceivability Argument......Page 191
7.3.2.3 The Ignorance Response......Page 193
7.3.2.4 The Consciousness+ Response......Page 194
7.3.2.5 The Spatial Relations Response......Page 196
7.3.2.6 The Gap Is Here to Stay......Page 201
7.3.3 Coleman’s Anti-​Subject-​Summing Argument......Page 202
8.1 The Palette Problem......Page 208
8.1.1 The Strong Palette Problem......Page 209
8.1.2 The Mild Palette Problem......Page 214
8.2 The Structural Mismatch Problem......Page 218
8.3 The Subject Irreducibility Problem......Page 224
9.1 Grounding by Subsumption......Page 235
9.1.2 Grounding by Subsumption of Hue, Saturation, and Lightness in Color......Page 236
9.1.3 Grounding by Subsumption of Properties in States of Affairs......Page 237
9.1.4 Grounding by Subsumption of Regions of Space in the Whole of Space......Page 238
9.1.5 What Is an Aspect?......Page 240
9.1.6 Free Lunch without Analysis......Page 241
9.2 Subject-Subsumption and the Decombination Problem......Page 242
9.3 Constitutive Cosmopsychism......Page 248
9.3.1 Does Cosmopsychism Require Brute Laws?......Page 250
9.3.2 The Revelation Argument......Page 253
9.3.3 Sharing Thoughts with the Cosmos......Page 256
9.4 Emergence or Constitution?......Page 258
9.5 The Incredulous Stare......Page 268
10.1 The State of Contemporary Metaphysics......Page 271
10.2 A Way Forward for Metaphysics......Page 278
10.3 A Phenomenological Argument for Presentism......Page 281
10.4 Analytic Phenomenology......Page 285
Bibliography......Page 290
Index......Page 300