Document Type
Article
Source Publication Title
Journal of the American Philosophical Association (Cambridge University Press)
DOI
10.1017/apa.2021.4
Abstract
The problem of many-over-one asks how it can be that many properties are ever instantiated by one object. A putative solution might, for example, claim that the properties are appropriately bundled, or somehow tied to a bare particular. In this essay, the author argues that, surprisingly, an extant candidate solution to this problem is at the same time an independently developed candidate solution to the mind-body problem. Specifically, what is argued here to be the best version of the relata-specific bundle theory—the thesis that each instance of compresence has a special intrinsic nature in virtue of which it necessarily bundles its specific bundle-ees—is also a species of Russellian monism, labeled by David Chalmers as ‘constitutive Russellian panprotopsychism’. The upshot of this connection is significant for the metaphysics of the mind-body problem: a credible theory of property instantiation turns out to have a built-in account of how consciousness is grounded in certain (broadly) physical systems.
Disciplines
Arts and Humanities | Philosophy
Publication Date
10-21-2021
Language
English
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Giberman, Daniel, "Panprotopsychism Instantiated" (2021). Cambridge University Press Open Access Agreement Publications. 2.
https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/utalibraries_cupoapubs/2