Preferred Citation: Griffin, David Ray. Unsnarling the World-Knot: Consciousness, Freedom, and the Mind-Body Problem. Berkeley, Calif:  University of California Press,  c1998 1998. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft8c6009k3/


 

Index

A

Actual entity, 125 , 127 , 175 ;

as substance, 157 , 201 n.

Actuality, 23 , 90 , 195 , 128 , 159 , 172 n., 176 , 203

Actual occasions, 127 -128, 161 ;

as bipolar (physical-mental), 162 , 227 , 230 , 237 ;

and societies, 157

Actual-possible fallacy, 73 -76

Adequacy, 24 -25, 33 , 45

Adler, Julius, 246 n.8

Aesthetic experience, 42 -43, 206

Aggregational societies, 40 , 78 , 90 , 95 -96, 181 , 186 , 187 -188, 229 .

See also Individuals

Agnosticism, 68 , 69 , 72 -73, 88 , 105

Alexander, Samuel, 220 , 225 , 230

Amoebas, 9 , 61 , 71 , 75 , 125 , 127 n.

Aristotle, 28 , 158 , 173 , 231 , 233 n.

Armstrong, David M., 59 , 246 n.5

Ayer, A.J., 216 -217

B

Badham, Paul, 246 n.6

Barrett, Sir William, 43 , 244 n.6

Behaviorism, 64 n., 98 , 156

Beloff, John, 246 n.6

Benson, Herbert, 245 n.9

Bergson, Henri, 43 , 93 , 115 , 120 , 127 , 195 , 244 n.6

Berkeley, Bishop George, 28 , 90 , 93 , 106 , 109 , 121 , 175 , 176 , 203

Birch, Charles, xi , 28 , 248 n.1

Blackburn, Simon, 57

Blakemore, Colin, 2

Bohm, David, 43 , 93 , 114 n., 153 , 200 , 228 n., 244 n.6, 247 n.3

Bowker, John, 244 n.4

Boyle, Robert, 12 , 13

Brain:

complexity of, 36 ;

evolution of, 41 ;

and mind, 9 , 47 , 52 , 58 , 60 , 104 -106, 144 -145, 167 , 168 -169, 172 -181, 241 ;

processes and states of, 23 , 25 , 31 , 41 -42

Braude, Stephen, 36 n., 244 n.5, 245 n.12

Brentano, Franz, 126

Broad, C. D., 43 , 59 , 244 n.6

Broughton, Richard S., 244 n.5, 245 n.13

Buddhism, 114 , 157

C

Campbell, C. A., 216 -217

Campbell, Keith, 5 , 10 , 47 , 59 , 60 , 121 , 246 n.5

Capek[*] , Milic[*] , 62 , 246 n. 10, 248 nn.11, l2

Carrel, Alexis, 43 , 244 n.6

Cartesian dualism, 3 , 12 , 23 , 47 , 214 -915, 219 , 227 , 231 -232, 237 ;

element of truth in, 60 , 241 .

See also Descartes; Dualism

Cartesian intuition:

about matter (body), 7 , 46 , 60 , 76 , 84 , 85 , 91 , 100 -101, 110 , 231 ;

about mind, 7 , 46 , 100 -101, 107

Category mistake, 64 -67, 161 -162

Causal-explanatory exclusion, 29 , 164 n., 217 , 219 , 222 -223

Causa sui, 153 , 181 -182, 183 -184.

See also Self-determination

Causation:

billiard-ball, 181 ;

downward, 37 , 235 ;

effective, 182 ;

epiphenomenal, 220 , 234

(see also Epiphenomenalism);

generalization of, 160 -161;

mental,2 n., 165 n., 219 -226;

principles of, 23 -99;

sufficient, 29 -30, 213 , 222 -223.

See also Efficient causation;

Final causation;

Material cause

Chalmers, David, 173 n.

Churchland, Paul, 1 , 54 , 59 , 246 n.3.

Clarke, Desmond, 246 n.1


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Cobb, John B., Jr., xi , 248 n.2

Common sense:

hard-core and soft-core, 16 -21, 25 , 32 , 34 -41, 94 -95, 145 -146, 166 , 213 , 226 ;

and science, 7 , 15 -16, 18 -19;

two types of, 7 , 15 -21, 39 ;

weak and strong, 16

Compatibilism and incompatibilism, 38 , 164 , 212 -217.

See also Freedom

Compound individuals, 40 , 94 , 116 , 156 , 162 , 178 , 180 , 185 , 186 -198, 233 ;

hierarchy of, 187 , 204 .

See also Individuals

Computers, 66 , 185 , 197 -198

Conceptual (mental) experience, 128 -129, 136 , 158 , 174 , 205

Consciousness:

altered states of, 44 ;

as central to mind-body problem, 1 -2;

content of, 10 , 132 ;

efficacy of, 37 , 44 -45, 226 ;

emergence of, 54 -58;

and experience, 2 , 9 , 10 , 71 n., 78 -79, 80 , 92 n., 106 -107, 112 , 125 -132, 127 n., 202 , 229 ;

as function of experience, 127 , 132 ;

as knowledge, discrimination, 126 , 127 ;

involves negation, 130 -131;

primacy in, 135 ;

problem of, 7 , 9 , 10 ;

as stuff of mind, 107 , 122 , 127 , 132 , 231 ;

as subjective form, 127 , 130 -132, 153 .

See also Experience

Continuity, 31 , 50 -51, 60 -61, 91

Copieston, F. C., 246 n.2

Cornell, A. D., 246 n.14

Cottingham, John, 246 n.1

Craig, Edward, 247 n.6

Creation ex nihilo,184 , 204

Creativity, creative experience, 152 , 154 , 179 , 184 , 228 -229, 232 -233;

and physicist's energy, 154 , 155 -156;

two phases of, 155 .

See also Energy; Material cause; Ultimate reality

Crookes, Sir William, 43 , 244 n.6

D

Dancy, Jonathan, 58 n.

Darwin, Charles, 119

Data, 7 , 33 .

See also Experience, given elements of

Davidson, Donald, 227

Democritean, 13 , 234

Dennett, Daniel, 1 , 23 , 52 -53, 69 -70, 75 , 79 , 83 , 87 , 132

Descartes:

on dualism, 60 -61, 118 ;

on interaction, 50 , 74 -75;

on matter, 12 , 13 , 46 -47, 82 ;

on mind, 46 ;

and Princess Elisabeth, 50 ;

on reality of conscious experience, 34 ;

on subjectivist bias, 174 -175.

See also Cartesian dualism; Cartesian intuition

Determinism, 29 , 30 , 37 -38.

See also Freedom; Quantum physics

Dual-aspect theory, 4 , 23 , 198

Dualism, 2 , 47 , 174 , 192 ;

Cartesian, 3 , 12 , 23 , 47 , 214 -215, 219 , 227 , 231 -232;

conceptual, 6 , 47 ;

disciplinary, 240 -241;

epiphenomenalist, 215

(see also Epiphenomenalism);

interactionist, 3 , 23 , 47 , 49 -50, 60 ;

Kantian, 240 ;

ontological, 31 , 47 , 188 , 194 ;

parallelist, 47 ;

and psychical research, 59 ;

problems of, 3 , 49 -51, 60 -76;

property, 48 , 58 ;

substance, 48 ;

vicious, 161 -162;

and wishful-and-fearful thinking, 12 -14

Dualism and materialism:

common problems of, 60 -76;

common root of, 46 -47, 60 , 76 ;

as only kinds of realism, 2 -3;

standoff between, 2 -6, 46 , 91

Duality, organizational, 188 -189, 241

Ducasse, C. J., 44 , 50 , 59 , 244 n.6

Dukas, Helen, 113 n.

Duration, 49 n., 102 , 112 -114, 115 , 120 , 197 , 144 , 148 , 154 , 157 , 161

E

Easlea, Brian, 243 nn.2, 3, 5

Eccles, John, 3 , 51 , 52 , 65 , 95 , 97 , 247 n.8

Edelman, Gerald M., 2 , 93

Edge, Hoyt L., 244 n.5

Edwards, Paul, 82 , 96 -97, 247 nn.6, 7

Efficient causation, 28 -29;

and final causation, 31 , 49 -50, 157 -159, 182 , 240 n., 241 ;

Hume on, 34 , 35 , 50 , 58 , 121 , 133 , 146 ;

knowledge of, 58 , 133 ;

as real influence (vs. constant conjunction), 28 , 34 , 50 , 133 .

See also Causation

Einstein, Albert, 113 , 188 , 230

Eisenbud, Jule, 246 n.13

Elimination of all alternatives, 26 , 81

Eliminative materialism, 4 , 14 n., 19 , 25 , 35 , 37 , 38 , 54 , 220 -221

Elisabeth, Princess, 50 , 74

Elsasser, Walter, 191 n., 200 n.

Emergence, 54 -58, 63 -76;

magical and radical, 168 n.;

naturalistic explanation of, 66 -67, 69 , 70 -74, 196 -197

Emotion, 139 -140, 149 , 153 .

See also Subjective form

Endurance, 156 -162.

See also Self-identity

Energy:

as abstraction, 123 , 154 , 182 ;

conservation of, 51 , 213 -214;

enlargement of, 155 -156, 228 ;

psychic, 51 , 155 , 167 , 208 ;

two phases of, 155 -156.

See also Creativity

Epiphenomenalism, 5 , 37 , 47 -48, 60 , 215 , 220 -226, 234

Epistemology, 27 , 132 -146;

and hard-core commonsense notions, 17 , 58 -59, 133 -134;

sensationist, 43 , 58 -59, 141 -142

Erickson, Millard J., 13 n.


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Eternal objects, 183 , 205 , 228 .

See also Possibilities

Events, 49 n., 157 .

See also Actual occasions

Experience:

aesthetic, 42 -43, 206 ;

and consciousness, 9 , 71 n., 78 , 79 n., 80 , 92 n., 106 -107, 112 , 127 n., 202 ;

creative, 152 , 154 ;

and duration, 102 , 112 -114, 148

(see also Duration);

efficacy of, 37 , 44 -45;

emotional, 139 -140;

as feeling, 104 n., 112 ;

as fundamental feature of mind, 7 , 78 ;

given elements of, 137 -138, 149 ;

human, 118 , 124 -125;

logical, 26 , 40 -41, 42 , 205 -206;

mathematical, 42 , 205 ;

moral, 26 , 41 , 42 -43, 205 -206;

obvious facts of, 19 -20;

physical, 128 , 205 ;

religious, 26 , 43 , 206 ;

self-conscious, 9 , 10 ;

in single-celled organisms, 9 -10;

stream of, 158 ;

as stuff of mind, 127 , 154 ;

topsy-turvy interpretation of, 135 -136;

unity of, 35 -36, 52 ;

what-it's-likeness of, 64 , 68 , 105 .

See also Consciousness; Occasions of experience; Panexperientialism

External world, 34 , 58 , 138

Extrasensory perception, 30 , 59 , 111 , 206 -207.

See also Nonsensory perception; Telepathy and clairvoyance

Evolution, 3 , 9 , 10 , 31 , 41 , 123 , 189 , 233 ;

and time, 62 -63, 92 ;

neo-Darwinian theory of, 31

F

Fallacy of misplaced concreteness, 117 , 119 , 122 , 191 n.

Farleigh, Peter, xi

Fechner, Gustav, 93 , 95

Feeling, 107 n., 112 , 118 , 248 ;

causal, 153 ;

conceptual (mental), 128 -129, 136 , 153 , 158 , 174 , 205 ;

intellectual, 127 , 130 -131;

physical, 128 , 152 ;

virtual synonym for prehension, 128 .

See also Prehension

Feigl, Herbert, 59 , 62 n., 246 n.5

Final causation, 49 -50;

and efficient causation, 31 , 49 -50, 157 -159, 240 n., 241 ;

as reasons, 69 -70;

as self-determination, 31 , 51 , 153 , 182 .

See also Causa sui; Self-determination

Flammarion, Camille, 245 n.6

Flanagan, Owen, 1 , 31 , 37 , 61 , 67 -68, 73 , 79

Folk:

beliefs, 38 ;

empiricism, 174 ;

philosophy, 101 ;

physics, 173 ;

psychology, 42 n., 104 , 173

Ford, Marcus P., 178

Foundationalism, 21

Fraser, J. T., 62 -63

Freedom, 37 -40, 163 -217;

as central to mind-body problem, 1 , 2 ;

compatibilist and incompatibilist views of, 38 , 164 , 212 -213;

and compound individuals, 40 ;

as difficulty for materialism, 52 -54;

distinctively human, 193 -198, 203 -209;

and dualism, 40 ;

moral and metaphysical, 164 , 209 -217;

Pickwickian, 164 n;

as presupposed in practice, 2 , 37 -40, 53 , 97 , 163 , 164 , 212 , 216 -217, 232 ;

as self-determination, 37 -38, 167 , 181 -185, 213 -214, 217 .

See also Determinism; Final causation; Self-determination

Freud, Sigmund, 44 , 107 , 127 n., 245 n.6

G

Galilei, Galileo, 13

Gamwell, Franklin I., 248 n.2

Gassendi, Pierre, 13

Gauld, Alan, 245 n.8, 246 n.14

Geulincx, Arnold, 47 , 50 , 246 n.2

Ghost in the machine, 50 , 167

Gier, Nicholas, 152 n.

God, 204 , 205 -206.

See also Theism

Goldbeter, A., 246 n.8

Great Exception, 61 -62

Greenfield, Susan, 2

Griffin, David Ray, 243 n.3, 244 n.5, 247 nn.5, 11, 248 nn.1, 4, 10

Griffin, Donald, xi , 247 n.9

Grünbaum, Adolf, 62 , 63 , 246 n.9

H

Haack, Susan, 11 , 243 n.1

Hannay, Alastair, 1

Hard-core commonsense notions, 16 -21, 25 , 32 , 34 -41, 94 -95, 145 -146, 166 , 213 , 226 ;

knowledge of, 17 , 58 -59, 133 -134;

and scientific worldview, 32 , 39 -40

Hart, W. D., 51 , 155

Hartshorne, Charles, xi , 23 n., 152 , 248 nn.2, 3 ;

on compound individuals, 82 , 178 , 185 , 204 ;

on Husserl and Wordsworth, 149 -150;

as panpsychist, 78 n., 81 , 93 , 95 -97;

and Whitehead's philosophy, 116 , 149 -150

Hegel, G. W. E, 27 , 101

Helm, Paul, 243 n.1

Henry, Granville, xi

Hiley, Basil, 114 n., 153 , 200 , 228 n., 247 n.3

Ho, Mae-Won, 248 n.3

Hobbes, Thomas, 82

Hoffman, Banesh, 113 n.

Honderich, Ted, 37

Hook, Sydney, 62 n.

Hume, David:

on conceptual and physical experience, 129 , 136 , 205 ;

on efficient causation, 34 , 35 , 50 , 58 , 121 , 133 , 146 ;

empiricism of, 129 , 136 , 174 ;

on external world, 34 , 58 , 133 ;

on induction, 111 , 211 ;

on practice, 18


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Humility, 27 , 32

Humphrey, Nicholas, 1 , 59 , 70 -71, 75 , 80 , 83

Husserl, Edmund, 149 -150

I

Idealism, 28 , 90 , 93 , 159 , 176 , 178

Ideals, 205 .

See also Norms

Individuals (vs. aggregates), 40 , 78 n., 90 , 95 -96, 97 , 151 -152, 159 , 186 , 233 , 239 , 247 n.5;

enduring, 156 -162;

in strictest sense, 147 .

See also Compound individuals

Influence at a distance, 13 , 30 , 207 -208

Instant, 49 n., 120

Intellectual feelings (prehensions), 127 , 130 -131

Intentionality, xi , 126 , 144 , 152 n.;

conscious, 131 , 152 n.;

incipient, 130 n., 152 n.;

physical and mental, 153

Interactionism, 48 , 60 , 171 ;

dualistic, 3 , 23 , 47 , 51 , 60 , 167 , 169 , 214 -215;

naturalistic, 31 ;

nondualistic (panexperientialist), 23 , 48 , 49 -50, 51 , 92 , 167 , 181 , 193 , 215 , 235 , 241 .

See also Causation, downward

Introspection, 100 -101, 134

J

Jacob, James R., 243 n.2

James, William:

on consciousness, 107 , 127 ;

on drops of perception, 115 , 157 ;

on habits of nature, 156 ;

and panpsychism, 93 , 177 -180;

and psychical research, 44 , 59 , 245 n.6;

on white crows, 21

Janet, Pierre, 44 , 245 n.6

Jung, Carl, 127 n.

K

Kane, Robert, 78 n.

Kant, Immanuel, 23 , 247 n.1;

on limits to knowledge, 27 , 101 ;

on panpsychism, 83 -84, 87 , 102 -103, 106 , 112 , 125 , 161 ;

on practical reason, 221 , 240

Kim, Jaegwon, x;

on causal-explanatory exclusion, 29 , 164 n., 217 , 219 , 222 -223;

on eliminative materialism, 220 -221;

on epiphenomenalism, 37 ;

on intractability of mind-body problem, 4 , 219 , 225 ;

on laws, 219 ;

on mental causation, 2 n., 165 n., 219 -226;

on naturalizing mind, 30 n.;

on norms, 42 n.;

on supervenience, 3 n., 8 , 56 n., 57 n., 85 n., 218 -242

Klaaren, Eugene, 243 nn.3, 4

Kneale, William, 221

Koshland, D. E., Jr., 246 n.8

Koyré, Alexandre, 243 n.4

Krippner, Stanley, 244 n.5

Kuhn, Thomas, 11

L

Law of large numbers, 167 , 168 , 186 , 214

Laws of nature, 166 -167, 219 ;

as descriptire or prescriptive, 190 -193, 239 ;

as habits, 156 , 195 , 239 ;

as imposed, 119 , 239 ;

predictive, 237 -241;

two kinds of, 239

Leibniz:

on individuals and aggregates, 95 , 96 , 97 , 198 -199;

on panpsychism, 93 ;

on windowless monads, 84 , 97 , 158 , 159

Lenoble, Robert, 243 n.5

Levin, Michael E., 62

Lewin, Roger, 244 n.3

Lewis, H. D., 50 , 74 -75

Life, 195 -196

Living person, 196 -197

Locke, John, 27 , 58 , 67 , 118

Logic, 26 , 40 -41, 42 , 205 -206

Lotze, Hermann, 93

Lovejoy, Arthur, 22 n.

Lycan, William, xi , 1 , 27 , 212 -217

Lyell, Charles, 196 -197

M

McGinn, Colin, xi , 59 , 62 , 125 ;

and actual-possible fallacy, 74 ;

agnosticism of, 67 -68, 72 -73, 105 -106;

bottom-up and top-down strategies of, 107 -108, 122 ;

on causation, 42 , 181 , 205 ;

on consciousness as stuff of mind; 107 ;

on emergence (supervenience), xi , 66 -68, 200 -201;

on equation of experience and consciousness, 127 n.;

on freedom, 38 , 53 , 163 ;

on intentionality, 129 , 144 ;

on intractability of mind-body problem, 1 , 4 , 5 , 10 , 24 , 54 , 67 , 87 , 121 , 201 ;

on introspection and sensory perception, 100 -101, 103 -105, 107 -108, 121 , 139 ;

on limits to knowledge, 27 ;

on logical norms, 40 ;

on naturalism, 30 , 66 -67, 69 , 70 -74, 78 -79;

on neurons, 10 , 82 -83;

on nonconstructive solution, 71 -72;

on radical conceptual innovation, 5 , 91 , 98 -116

Madell, Geoffrey, xi , 3 , 79 , 80 , 121

Magic, 71 , 168 n.

Malebranche, Nicolas, 47 , 50 , 246 n.2

Marcel, Gabriel, 44 , 245 n.6

Material cause, 231 -233

Materialism, 48 -49;

agnostic, 68 , 69 , 72 -73, 88 , 105 ;

as descended from dualism (post-Cartesian), 13 -14, 83 , 231 ;

eliminatire, 4 , 14 n., 19 , 25 , 35 , 37 , 38 , 54 , 220 -221;

as faith, 73 n., 88 , 203 ;

nonreductire, 241 ;

not required by science, 31 -32;

panpsychist, 89 , 93 ;

problems of, 52 -76;

scientific, 117 , 121 ;

as type of dualism, 6 , 77 ;

as type of physicalism, 3 n., 93 , 227 .

See also Dualism and materialism; Physicalism

Mathematics, 42 , 205

Matter:

at an instant, 49 n., 120 , 157 ;


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Cartesian intuition of, 7 , 46 , 60 , 76 , 84 , 85 , 91 , 100 -101, 110 , 231 ;

Democritean view of, 13 , 234 ;

and spatiality, 49 n.;

as simply located, 119 ;

as vacuous, 120 , 157 .

Mental causation, 2 n., 165 n., 219 -226.

See also Epiphenomenalism; Experience, efficacy of

Mentality:

as appetition, 161 ;

contrasted with physicality, 6 , 54 -55;

meaning of, 118 , 200 -201;

as nonspatial, 161 -163;

as not requiring consciousness, 129 .

See also Conceptual (mental) experience

Mental pole, 153 , 162 , 200 , 227 , 228

Mereological, 220 , 223 , 233 , 234 , 235

Mersenne, Marin, 13

Mind:

cosmic, 203 -209;

naturalization of, 7 , 30 n., 31 , 78 , 89 -90, 118 , 121 ;

as unification, 124 -125, 127 , 144 -145

Mind-body problem, 1 , 9 , 117 ;

as intractable, 1 -6, 10 , 14 , 24 , 54 , 87 , 225 -226;

as philosophical problem, 1 , 2 , 10 ;

as scientific problem, 2 , 7 , 10 ;

seven snarls of, 7 ;

as world-knot, 1 , 7

Miracles, 13 , 30 , 31 , 66 , 69 , 70 , 72 , 206 .

See also Magic

Monads, 84 , 97 , 158 , 159

Monism, 48 ;

materialistic, 48 , 80 , 103 -106;

nonmaterialistic, 48 ;

pluralistic, 48 , 103 -105

Montague, W. P., 93

Moore, G. E., 17

Moral:

experience, 26 , 41 , 42 -43;

responsibility, 164 , 209 -217

Morgan, C. Lloyd, 56 n.

Morris, Robert L., 244 n.5

N

Nagel, Thomas, xi ;

on commonsense intuitions, 16 , 20 ;

on considering all alternatives, 26 , 81 -82;

on emergence, 63 -64, 67 -68;

on epistemology, 27 ;

on faulty analogies, 57 , 65 ;

on freedom, 38 , 165 ;

on intractability of mind-body problem, 2 , 10 , 24 , 54 , 121 ;

on objectivity of values, 43 ;

on panpsychism, 49 , 62 , 81 -82, 85 , 94 ;

on part-whole relation, 81 -82, 180 ;

on points of view (subjectivity), 54 , 62 , 65 , 151 ;

on radical speculation, 5 , 27 , 91 ;

on scientism, 32 , 44 ;

on subjective universals, 151 ;

on subjectivity and objectivity, 54 , 55 ;

on unity of consciousness, 36

Naturalism, 30 , 121 ;

and commonsense notions, 17 , 59 ;

and determinism, 30 ;

and efficacy of norms, 205 ;

and emergence of experience, 66 -67, 69 , 70 -74;

and emergence of human experience, 196 -197;

and interactionism, 31 ;

and nonsensory perception, 206 -208;

and paranormal influence, 30 ;

and physicaliam, 30 ;

and qualities, 145 ;

and Renaissance, 13 ;

and theism, 30 , 73 , 204 -206

Neurons:

as insentient, 10 , 21 , 71 , 74 , 75 , 108 , 110 , 131 ;

as sentient, 9 -10, 82 -83, 107 , 110 , 197 -198

Newton, Isaac, 12 -13, 47 , 62

Noncontradiction, 21 , 24 , 180 , 216

Nondualistic interactionism, 23 , 43 , 49 -50, 51 , 60 , 167 , 169 , 214 -215

Nonsensory perception, 42 -44, 109 , 111 , 134 , 146 -150, 203 -209

Norms, 40 -41, 42 n., 58 -59, 204 -205;

efficacy of, 221

Novelty, 194 -197;

canalization of, 195 ;

as central to definition of humankind, 196 , 208 -209;

prehension of, 205

O

Objectivity, 26 -27, 55 , 97 -99, 151

Occasionalism, 246 n.2

Occasions of experience, 127 -130, 158 -159, 201 n.;

dominant (presiding, regnant), 179 , 186 , 197 , 228 , 235 ;

phases of, 128 -130;

subjective and objective modes of, 159 -169, 180 , 200 -201

Ochs, Peter, 244 n.5, 248 n.5

Ontological principle, 28 , 204 -205, 229

Organizational duality, 188 -189, 241

Owen, A. R. G., 246 n.14

P

Palmer, John, 244 n.5

Panexperientialism:

alleged implausibility of, 93 -94;

alleged unintelligibility of, 94 -97;

as alternative to physicalism, 3 n., 218 ;

as better term than panpsychism, 78 , 107 ;

as form of physicalism, 3 n., 129 n., 218 , 227 -242;

and freedom, 97 ;

as fully naturalizing mind, 77 -116;

identist (twoaspect) and interactionist, 178 , 181 , 198 ;

as monistic, 90 ;

as naturalistic, 90 , 92 ;

as neglected form of realism, 79 -89;

objections to, 92 -98;

and parallelism, 97 ;

reasons to consider, 89 -92;

and science, 97 -98;

its standard of actuality, 174 , 176 , 180 -181;

as third form of realism, 7 , 26 , 77 -78, 79 .

See also Panpsychism

Panpsychism:

as alternative to standard views, 6 ;

as problematic synonym for panexperientialism, 78 , 107 ;

two types of, 75 -76, 160 , 178 , 198 .

See also Panexperientialism

Paradigmatic thinking, 7 , 10 , 14

Paranormal influence, 30 .

See also Extrasensory perception; Telepathy and clairvoyance; Psychokinesis


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Parapsychology, psychical research, 59 n., 206 , 244 nn.5, 6 , 245 n.13, 246 n.14

Parsimony, 28 , 62

Part-whole relation, 81 -82, 85 ;

experiential, 94 , 116 , 162 , 177 -179, 180 , 235 -236.

See also Compound individuals

Passmore, John, 49 , 74

Past, reality of, 34 , 58 , 133 -134

Peirce, C. S., 17 , 21 , 37 , 93 , 156

Penrose, Roger, 2

Perception:

basic, 111 , 134 ;

buds or drops of, 127 , 157 ;

and causation, 111 -112;

extrasensory, 30 , 59 , 111 , 206 -207;

in mode of causal efficacy, 133 -134;

in mode of presentational immediacy, 134 -141;

in mode of symbolic reference, 135 ;

nonsensory, 42 -44, 109 , 111 , 134 , 146 -150, 203 -209;

sensory, 34 , 41 -42, 58 .

See also Prehension

Peters, Ted, 247 n.5

Phenomenology, 149 -150

Phillips, Stephen H., 78 n.

Philosophy:

Anglo-American, 115 ;

anti-metaphysical, 119 ;

as critic of abstractions, 121 ;

folk, 101 ;

ordinary language, 115 ;

modern, 1

Physical feelings (prehensions), 128 , 152 , 158 , 175 ;

hybrid, 195 ;

pure, 194 -195

Physicalism:

materialist, 3 n., 8 , 218 , 226 -227, 229 ;

panexperientialist, 3 n., 129 n., 218 , 227 -242;

as synonym for materialism, 3 n., 227 ;

two-aspect, 4 n.;

types of, 4

Physicality:

contrasted with mentality, 6 ;

experiential and nonexperiential, 86 -87;

meaning of, 28 , 55 , 87 -88, 118 , 158 , 200 -201, 203 ;

as spatial, 162

Physical-mental entities, 230 , 232

Physical pole, 162 , 200 , 227

Physical purposes, 130 , 152 n.

Physics:

abstracts, 123 , 156 , 182 , 191 n.;

as behaviorist, 156 ;

descriptive scheme of, 86 -88;

as fundamental science, 220 ;

generalizations from, 157 -162;

inner, 151 , 155 ;

qualitative-character-of-experience, 86 , 151 , 159 ;

quantum, 31 , 39 , 52 , 61 , 94 , 113 ;

and philosophy, 123 n.;

relativity, 113

Physiology, 118 , 192 ;

physical and psychological, 151

Plantinga, Alvin, 244 n.4

Plato, 12

Point of view, 27 , 55 , 69 , 83 , 151

Pollock, John, 1

Popper, Karl, 3 , 10 , 50 , 65 ;

on freedom, 38 , 40 ;

on panpsychism, 95 , 97 ;

on solid material bodies, 94 -95, 138

Possibilities, 128 -129, 183 , 195 , 204 -205, 209

Prehension, 126 , 128 ;

intellectual, 127 , 130 -131;

mental (conceptual), 128 -129, 136 , 158 , 174 , 205 ;

objective datum of, 128 ;

physical, 128 , 152 , 158 , 175 ;

propositional, 129 -130, 152 -153

(see also Physical purposes);

subjective form of, 128 ;

as virtual synonym for feeling, 128

Presentational immediacy, 134 -141

Price, H. H., 44 , 59 , 245 n.6, 246 n.6

Primary and secondary qualities, 109 -110, 121 , 140 -141

Propositions, 129 -130, 152 -153

Psychic energy, 51 , 155 , 167 , 208

Psychokinesis, 45 , 60 , 245 n.13. 246 n.14

Psychology:

behaviorist, 64 n., 98 ;

vernacular (intentional, folk), 42 n., 104 , 221 , 240

Psychosomatic influence, 44 -45

Q

Quantum physics, 177 -178;

completeness of, 199 -200;

Copenhagen theory of, 31 ;

and duration, 113 ;

and indeterminacy, 39 , 52 , 61 , 94 , 166 -167, 168 , 169 , 186 , 199 -200, 214 , 228 n.;

ontological interpretation of, 114 n., 153 , 200

Quine, Willard, 58 n.

R

Rayleigh, Lord (John William Strutt), 44 , 245 n.6

Realism:

definition of, 7 , 26 , 28 ;

panexperientialism as form of, 7 , 26 ;

three forms of, 7 , 26

Reformed subjectivist principle, 174 , 248 n.1

Regulative principles, 7 , 23 , 32 ;

formal, 22 , 24 -28;

substantive, 22 , 28 -32

Reid, Thomas, 16 -17, 50 , 243 nn.1, 2, 244 n.4, 246 n.2

Relations, 158 -159, 233

Religious experience, 26 , 43 , 203 , 206

Rensch, Bernard, 93 , 95 , 247 n.4

Rescher, Nicholas, 184 n.

Responsibility, moral, 164 , 183 -184

Richet, Charles, 44 , 245 n.6

Robinson William S., 4 , 10 , 37 , 54 , 121

Roll, William G., 246 n.14

Rosenfield, Israel, 2

Rosenfield, Leonora Cohen, 13 n.

Rush, Joseph H., 244 n.5, 245 n.13

Russell, Robert John, 248 n.2

Ryle, Gilbert, 64

S

Sacks, Oliver, 244 n.2

Santayana, George, 34 , 58 , 133 , 244 n.1

Schiller, F. C. S., 96

Schmeidler, Gertrude, 245 n.13

Schmidt, Helmut, 245 n.13

Schopenhauer, Arthur, 1


265

Science:

and common sense, 7 , 15 -16, 18 -19, 38 -39;

and freedom, 38 -39, 163 -70;

Galilean-Newtonian-Einsteinian, 188 , 239 ;

and materialism (physicalism), 31 , 98 ;

and mind-body problem, 2 , 7 ;

and objectivity, 97 -98;

and panexperientialism, 97 -98;

unity of, 90 , 98 , 188 -189

Scientific materialism, 117 , 121

Scientific worldview, 31 -32

Seager, William, xi ;

on combination problem, 162 , 177 -178, 202 -203;

on consciousness, 62 , 127 n.;

on data, 24 ;

earlier and later positions of, 80 n., 91 ;

on intractability of mind-body problem, 4 , 10 , 54 , 62 ;

on panpsychism, 80 , 91 -92, 92 n., 93 -94, 95 n., 162 , 177 -178, 202 ;

on parapsychological evidence, 59 ;

on quantum theory, 199 -200;

on regulative principles, 29 , 23 ;

on science, 32 , 90 ;

on supervenience, 56 -57

Searle, John, xi ;

on bottom-up explanation, 168 -169;

on common sense, 15 -16, 39 -40;

on conceptual dualism, 6 , 47 , 54 -55, 77 , 91 , 110 ;

on efficacy of consciousness, 37 ;

on eliminative materialism, 34 -35, 37 , 169 -170;

on emergence, 54 -58, 61 , 63 ;

on fearful thinking, 12 ;

on freedom, 38 -40, 53 , 163 -170, 184 ;

on materialism, 5 -6, 12 , 49 , 54 , 78 ;

on objectivity, 98 ;

on obvious facts, 23 , 25 , 146 ;

on part-whole relations, 169 , 177 ;

on property polyism, 58 , 64 -65;

on subjectivity, 62 , 90 , 106 ;

on unity of experience, 36 , 52 ;

worldview of, 167 -169, 189 , 190

Self-consciousness, 9 , 10

Self-consistency, 23 , 24 , 25 , 33 .

See also Non-contradiction

Self-determination (-causation,-motion):

as final causation, 31 , 153 , 182 ;

as fundamental feature of mind, 7 , 12 , 29 ;

as involved in freedom, 37 -38, 167 , 181 -185, 213 -214, 217 ;

and spontaneity, 79 n.

See also Causa sui; Freedom

Self-identity, 114 , 134 .

See also Endurance

Sensa, 139

Sensationism, 43 , 58 -59, 141 -142, 157

Sensory perception:

conceptions based on, 34 , 100 -112;

as derivative mode of perception, 34 , 132 -133, 135 -136, 142 -143;

as spatial, 99 , 102 , 108 , 120 ;

two types of, 109 -110, 137 n.

See also Nonsensory perception

Shimony, Abner, 228 n.

Sidgwick, Henry, 44 , 245 n.6

Siegel, Bernie S., 245 n.9

Simple location, 119 -120, 137 , 144 , 147 -148, 150 , 158

Simplest things, 121 , 156

Simplicity, 27 -28, 62

Smart, J.J.C., 63

Societies:

spatiotemporal, 185 -186;

temporally (personally) ordered, 157 , 159 , 196

Solipsism, 34 , 58 , 133 , 174 -175, 176

Soul:

as different in kind from matter, 13 ;

as immortal, 12 .

See also Dualism; Mind

Space, spatial, 49 n., 99 , 108 , 112 -113, 127 , 148 , 161 -162

Spatialization, 120 , 122 -123, 139 -140

Sperry, Roger, 37 -38, 53

Spinoza, Benedict, Spinozism, 82 , 95 , 160

Spontaneity:

as criterion of individuality, 186 ;

as fundamental feature of mind, 78 ;

as rudimentary form of self-determination, 79 n.

See also Self-determination

Sprigge, Timothy, 247 n.6

Stanford, Rex, 244 n.5, 245 n.13

Strawson, Galen, xi , 5 n.;

agnosticism of, 88 , 105 -106, 121 ;

on eliminative materialism, 14 n., 25 , 34 -35;

on equation of experience and consciousness, 2 , 106 n., 107 n., 127 n.;

on experience as a substance, 201 n.;

on intractability of mindbody problem, 2 , 4 , 87 , 114 n., 122 ;

on introspection, 106 ;

on materialism, 48 -49, 73 n., 86 -89;

on naturalism, 66 n.;

on nature of matter, 5 , 86 -89, 122 , 123 n., 138 n.;

on panpsychism, 6 , 86 -89, 91 , 93 ;

on qualitative physics, 86 , 151 , 159 ;

on supervenience, 57 ;

on theoretical homogeneity, 90

Strawson, Peter, xi , 5 n., 209 -212, 217

Strong AI, 66 .

See also Computers

Stuff, 107 , 122 , 127 , 132 , 154 , 231 , 232 n., 235

Subjective aim, 153

Subjective form, 127 , 128 , 130 -132, 153 .

See also Emotion

Subjective universals, 151 -154

Subjectivism:

good and bad, 175 ;

reformed, 174 , 175 .

See also Solipsism

Subjectivist bias, 174 -175

Subjectivity, 27 , 54 , 62 , 64 , 65 , 68 , 90 , 105 , 106 , 151

Subjects and objects, 158 -160

Substance, 157 , 201 n.

Sufficient cause, 29 -30, 213 , 222 -223, 232

Superject, 230

Supernaturalism, 30 , 47 , 64 n., 77 , 204 ;

and commonsense notions, 17 , 59 ;

and emergence, 66 -67, 196 -197;

and interactionism, 50 .

See also Theism

Supervenience, 56 -57, 85 n., 218 -242;

constitutive vs. correlative (causal), 56 -57;

mereological, 220 , 223 , 234 , 235 ;

as synonym for emergence, 56 n., 235


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Swinburne, Richard, 67 n.

T

Tart, Charles, 245 n.7

Telepathy and clairvoyance, 26 , 43 , 59 , 206 -207.

See also Extrasensory perception;

Influence at a distance;

Parapsychology

Tennyson, Alfred, 165 , 191

Theism:

naturalistic, 30 , 73 , 204 -206;

supernaturalistic, 17 , 30 , 47 , 50 , 64 n., 66 -67, 77 , 196 -197, 204 .

See also God; Mind, cosmic

Thurston, Herbert, 245 n. 10

Time:

knowledge of, 58 , 133 ;

and matter, 49 n.;

reality of, 23 , 34 , 58 , 62 -63, 92 , 113 ;

relative view of, 113 -114.

See also Duration

Tse, Wing-Wai, 246 n.8

U

Ultimate reality, 152 , 179 , 184 , 232 -233, 235

Units of nature, 78 n., 119 -120, 147 , 157 -158

Unity:

of bodily behavior, 36 , 52 ;

of experience, 35 -36, 52 ;

of science, 90 , 98 , 188 -189

V

Vacuous actuality, 120 , 122 , 137 , 150 , 176 , 189 , 202 , 203 , 229 , 233

Valenza, Robert, xi

Value, 141 , 154 , 159 .

See also Ideals; Norms

Viney, Donald Wayne, 246 n.1

Vitalism, 31 , 92 -93, 191 n.

Von Neumann, John, 200 n.

W

Waddington, C. H., 93 , 247 n.3

What-it's-like-ness, 64 , 68 , 105

Where to draw the line, 60 -62

Whitehead, Alfred North, xi , 115 , 117 -209 passim;

on adequacy, 45 ;

on assemblage, 33 ;

on avoiding dualism, 79 , 137 ;

on bodily basis of sensory perception, 35 , 41 -42;

on boldness and humility, 27 ;

bottom-up and top-down approaches of, 122 -123, 124 ;

as commonsense philosopher, 17 -21;

on eliminativism, 27 , 37 , 38 ;

as exemplar of panpsychism, 81 , 82 , 93 , 95 -97;

on external world, 34 ;

on freedom, 38 ;

major works of, 115 n., 123 ;

on matter, 49 n.76 , 119 -124;

metaphysical period of', 115 ;

on naturalism, 30 ;

on new ideas, 91 ;

on ontological principle, 28 ;

originality of, 157 ;

on perception of causal efficacy, 35 ;

as philosopher of mind-body problem, 118 -119;

on philosophy of natural science, 115 n.;

on unifying control, 36 ;

on vitalism, 93

Williams, Bernard, 75

Wills, Christopher, 41

Wishful-and-fearful thinking, 7 , 11 -14, 26

World-knot, 1 , 7

Wright, Sewall, 71 , 93 , 247 n.3


 

Preferred Citation: Griffin, David Ray. Unsnarling the World-Knot: Consciousness, Freedom, and the Mind-Body Problem. Berkeley, Calif:  University of California Press,  c1998 1998. http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft8c6009k3/