Process Thought and Panpsychism

Barrett, Nathaniel F. "The Perspectivity of Feeling: Process Panpsychism and the Explanatory Gap"  CPS Seminar Paper, [August 14, 2008], 1-29

Basile, Pierfrancesco. "Mind-Body Problem and Panpsychism." Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought Vol. I. Edited by Michel Weber and Will Desmond. Heusenstamm, Germany: Ontos Verlag, 2008. 383-394. [abstract

_____. Review of Consciousness and its Place in Nature. Does Physicalism entail Panpsychism? by Galen Strawson, et al. Process Studies 36, no. 1 (Spring-Summer 2007): 150-53.


Berne, Vincent. Panexpérientialisme et subjectivation: le sens de l'intériorité chez Whitehead. Chromatikon II (2006): 19-34.

Birch, Charles. Feelings. Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 1995. [abstract]

_____. “Why I Became a Panexperientialist.”  Discussion paper, the Australasian Association for Process Thought, 1997. [read paper]

Bjelland, Andrew. G. “Popper’s Critique of Panpsychism and Process Proto-Mentalism.” (unpubl.)

Carruthers, Peter and Elizabeth Schechter. "Can Panpsychism Bridge the Explanatory Gap?" Journal of Consciousness Studies 13, no. 10-11 (2006): 32-39.

Chew, Ho Hua. “Process Theism and Physical Evil.”  Sophia 31, no.3 (1992): 16-27. [abstract]   

Clarke, D.S. “Panpsychism and the Philosophy of Charles Hartshorne.” The Journal of Speculative Philosophy 16, no. 3 (2002): 151-66.

_____. Panpsychism and the Religious Attitude. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2003. [abstract]

Cobb, John B. Jr. "A Critique of Lynn Margulis Theory of Evolution." 1-10.(unpub.) [A paper presented at the conference of "Religious Interpretation of Evolutionary Biology: Neo-Darwinism in Dialogue with Lynn Margulis and Process Thought." Oct. 21-24, 2004.

_____. “Re-Reading Science and the Modern World.”  Process Studies 27, nos. 1-2 (Spring-Summer 1998): 34-47. [abstract]

Cobb, John B. Jr and David Ray Griffin, eds..  Mind in Nature: Essays on the Interface of Science and Philosophy. Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1977.

Coleman, Sam. “Being Realistic: Why Physicalism May Entail Panexperientialism..” Journal of Consciousness Studies 13, no. 10-11 (2006): 40-52. [abstract

Deckers, Jan. “Christianity and Ecological Ethics: The Significance of Process Thought and a Panexperientalist Critique of Strong Anthropocentrism.”  Ecotheology 9, no. 3 (2004): 359-387.

de Quincey, Christian. Radical Nature: Rediscovering the Soul of Matter. Montpelier, VT: Invisible Cities Press, 2002. [abstract]

Dombrowski, Daniel. "Panpsychism." The Wordsworth Circle 19, no. 1 (Winter 1988): 38-45.

Edwards, Paul. “Panpsychism.”  In Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Vol. 6 [???]

Emerson, John. “Determinism.”  (unpubl.)

Ford, Lewis S. “From Pre-Panpsychism to Pansubjectivity.”  In Faith and Creativity, eds., George Nordgulen and George Shields. St. Louis: CBP Press, 1987, pp. 41-61.

_____. “Panpsychism and the Early History of Prehension.”  Process Studies 24 (1995): 15-33. [abstract]

_____. “Science, Panpsychism, and the Modern World.”  [Conference paper, December, 1995]

Ford, Marcus. Review of Panpsychism in the West by David Skrbina Process Studies 37, no. 2 (Fall-Winter 2008): 216-19.

Gao, Shan. "Quantum Mechanics and Panpsychism." Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought Vol. II. Edited by Michel Weber and Will Desmond. Heusenstamm, Germany: Ontos Verlag, 2008. 223-231. [abstract]

Gier, Nicholas. “Intentionality and Prehension.”  Process Studies 6, no.3 (Fall 1976): 197-213. [abstract]

Gilmour, John C. “Analogical Generalization and Whitehead’s Panpsychism.” Ph.D. Dissertation. Emory University, 1966.

Goff, Philip. "Experiences Don't Sum." Journal of Consciousness Studies 13, no. 10-11 (2006): 53-61. 

Grange, Joseph. “Review: Process Pragmatism: Essays on a Quiet Revolution, ed. by Guy Debrock.”  In Process Studies 33, no.2 (Fall-Winter 2004): 347-349.

Griffin, David Ray. "Materialist and Panexperientialist Physicalism: A Critique of Jaegwon Kim's Supervenience and Mind."  Process Studies 28, nos.1-2 (Spring-Summer, 1999): 4-27.

_____. “Panexperientialist Physicalism and the Mind-Body Problem.”  Journal of Consciousness Studies 4, no.3 (1997): 248-68. [Read Paper]

_____. “Reply to Jaegwon Kim” Process Studies 28, no. 1-2 (Fall-Winter 1999): 35-36.

_____. "Morality and Scientific Naturalism: Overcoming the Conflicts."  in Value, Judgments, God, and Ecological Ecumenism:  Essays in Honor of Eugene Thomas Long, eds., Hackett, Jeremiah and Jerald Wallulis.  Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004, 81-104.

Hameroff, Stuart.  "Quantum Computation in Brain Microtubules? The Penrose-Hameroff 'Orch OR' Model of Consciousness." Philosophical Transactions in the Royal Society of London 356 (1998): 1869-1896. [abstract]

Hammond, John. “Questions About Charles Hartshorne’s Panpsychism.” (unpubl.) [Tribute to Charles Hartshorne Conference, Claremont Graduate School, April 1993.]

Hartshorne, Charles. “Panpsychism.”  In A History of Philosophical Sys­tems, ed., Vergilius Ferm. New York: Philosophical Library, 1950, pp. 442-453.

_____. “Panpsychism: Mind as Sole Reality.”  Ultimate Reality and Meaning 1:2 (1978): 115-129.

_____. “Psychicalism and the Leibnizian Principle.”  Studia Leibnitiana 8:2 (1976): 154-159.

_____. "A Psychologist's Philosophy Evaluated After Fifty Years: Troland's Psychical Monism." Process Studies 30, no. 2 (Fall-Winter 2001): 237-41.

_____. “Why Psychicalism?  Comments on Keeling’s and Shephard’s Criticisms.”  Process Studies 6:1 (Spring, 1976)

_____. “A World of Organisms.” In Process Philosophy: Basic Writings, ed., Jack R. Sibley and Pete A. Y. Gunter. (Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1978), 273-298. [abstract]

Jackson, Frank. “Galen Strawson on Panpsychism.” Journal of Consciousness Studies 13, no. 10-11 (2006): 62-64. [abstract

Kim, Jaegwon."Physicalism and Panexperientalism:Response to David Ray Griffin."Process Studies 28, nos.1-2 (Spring-Summer 1999): 28-34.

Koestler, Arthur. “Free Will in a Hierarchic Context.” (unpubl., Process Thought and Modern Science Conference, June 1974) [abstract]

Lachs, John and Robert Talisse, eds. American Philosophy: An Encyclopedia - entry on Panpsychism. New York and London: Routledge, 2008. (Available at Honnold)

Lawrence, John S. “A. N. Whitehead’s Panpsychical Theory of the Individual Existent.”  Ph.D., Dis., University of Texas at Austin, 1964.

Lillie, Ralph S. "Types of Physical Determination and the Actinities of Living Organisms." The Journal of Philosophy 28, no. 21 (October 8, 1931): 561-573. [Bergson, Panpsychism]

Lycan, William G. “Resisting ?-ism.” Journal of Consciousness Studies 13, no. 10-11 (2006): 65-71. [abstract

McDaniel, Jay. “Physical Matter as Creative and Sentient.”  Environmental Ethics 5 (Winter 1983): 291-318. [abstract]

McHenry, Leeman B. “Whitehead’s Panpsychism as the Subject of Prehension.” Process Studies 24 (1995): 1-14. [abstract]

Nobo, Jorge Luis. “Review: Unsnarling the World-Knot:  Consciousness, Freedom, and the Mind-Body Problem, by David Ray Griffin.”  In Process Studies 28, no. 1-2 (Spring-Summer 1999): 139-41.

Owcarz, Gregory. “Review: Panpsychism and the Religious Attitude, by D.S. Clark.”  In Process Studies 33, no.2 (Fall-Winter 2004): 344-347.

_____. “Review of Panpsychism: Past and Recent Selected Readings, by D.S. Clark.”  Process Studies 34, no. 2 (Fall-Winter 2005):    297-300.

Reck, Andrew.  “Charles Hartshorne:  Process Philosophy, Panpsychism, and Panentheism.”  In The New American Philosophers:  An Exploration of Thought Since World War II (Baton Rouge:  Lousiana State University Press, 1968), 291-314. [North American Philosophers, Panpsychism, Pantheism]

Rensch, Bernhard. “Arguments for Panpsychistic Identism.” In Mind in Nature: Essays on the Interface of Science and Philosophy, eds. John B. Cobb and David Griffin. Washington, D.C.: UP of America, 1977: 70-78. [abstract]

_____. “The Meaning of Panpsycbistic Identism for a Universal Evolutionary Picture.”  In Whitehead and the Idea of Process, eds., Harald Holz and Ernest Wolf-Gazo. Freiburg: Verlag Karl Alber, 1984, pp. 191-204.

Rolston, Holmes, III.  "Review: Religion in an Age of Science: Metaphysics in an Era of History."  Zygon 27, no. 1 (March 1992): 65-87. [abstract]

Rosenthal, David M. "Experience and the Physical." Journal of Consciousness Studies 13, no. 10-11 (2006): 117-28.

Seager, Willam. "The 'Instrinsic Nature' Argument for Pansychism." Journal of Consciousness Studies  13 no. 10-11 (2006): 129-145.

Shepherd, John J. “Panpsychism and Parsimony.”  Process Studies (Spring, 1974): 3-10. [abstract]

Simons, Peter. "The Seeds of Experience." Journal of Consciousness Studies 13, no. 10-11 (2006): 146-150.

Skrbina, David. “Participation, Organization, and Mind: Toward a Participatory Worldview.”  University of Bath, 2001. [Panpsychism, Participation, Philosophy of Mind, and Chaos theory]  [Summary of Dissertation]  [He is available for discussion if anybody wants to follow up with him. Email him at Skrbina@aol.com]

_____. "Realistic Panpsychism: Commentary on Strawson." Journal of Consciousness Studies 13, no. 10-11 (2006): 151-157.

Smart, J.C.C. "Ockamist Comments on Strawson." Journal of Consciusness Studies 13, no.10-11 (2006): 158-162.

Sprigge, Timothy L. S. “Santayana and Panpsychism.”  Bulletin of the Santayana Society 2 (Fall 1984): 1-8. [abstract]

Stapp, Henry P. "Commentary on Strawson's Target Article." Journal of Consciousness Studies 13, no. 10-11 (2006): 163-169.  

Strawson, Galen "Realistic Monism: Why Physicalism Entails Panpsychism." Journal of Consciousness Studies 13, no. 10-11 (2006): 3-31.

Tapp, Gary. “Man’s Relationship to Nature in Christian and Primitive Structures of Existence.” (unpubl.) [abstract]

Todd, Douglas.  “A New Scientific Paradigm Looms: Feelings are Everywhere.” The Vancouver Sun C5 (Sat. Oct. 21, 2006).

Villars, C. N. “Microphysical Objects as Centers of Perception.” (unpubl.)

_____. “Nature Alive: Microphysical Objects as Proto-Organisms.” (unpubl.)

Weber, Michel. "Hypnosis: Panpsychism in Action." Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought. Vol. I. Edited by Michel Weber and Will Desmond. Heusenstamm, Germany: Ontos Verlag, 2008. 395-414. [abstract]

Wright, Sewall. “Panpsychism and Science.” In Mind in Nature, ed. John Cobb and David Griffin. (Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1977), 79-88. [abstract]

_____. "Biology and the Philosophy of Science" confrence paper, 10 February 1979.

Whittemore, Robert C. “Panpsychism and the Function of God.”  Ph.D. Dissertation. Yale University, 1953.