Zero-person and the psyche

Zero-person and the psyche

Department

Philosophy Department

Abstract

This article addresses several closely linked issues: the mind-body problem, the relation between first-person and third-person descriptions, and panpyschism. First, the mind-body problem is one small part of a more basic body-body problem, as found in the abandoned occasionalist tradition. Second, what is missing from the distinction between first- and third-person descriptions is what I will call the zero-person stance. Third, the term "panpsychism" must be replaced with a more accurate alternative; in this article I propose "endopsychism" as the alternative term.

Publication Date

2009

Document Type

Book Chapter

Book Title

Mind that abides : panpsychism in the new millennium

Editors

David Skrbina

ISBN

9789027252111

Publisher

John Benjamins Publishing Company

City

Amsterdam

First Page

253

Last Page

282

Keywords

Panpsychism, Chalmers, David, Brentano, Franz, 1838-1917, Occasionalism, Mind and body

Zero-person and the psyche

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