Leidenhag, J. orcid.org/0000-0002-1164-7032 (Cover date: December 2022) Panpsychism and God. Philosophy Compass, 17 (12). e12889. ISSN 1747-9991
Abstract
Panpsychism is the view, found in ancient and modern, Eastern and Western philosophies, that mind is a fundamental and ubiquitous feature of the universe. This article explores the use of panpsychism to support different views of God. It is seen that as a family of views, panpsychism is a theologically flexible position that has been used to support atheism, pantheism, panentheism, and traditional monotheism. However, the relationship between panpsychism and philosophy of religion is not infinitely flexible. Different versions of panpsychism constrain these models of God, and vice versa. The different motivations for linking panpsychism to (dis)belief in God reveals the range of ways of interpreting the spiritual import of positing mentality in nature.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2022 The Authors. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License (CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0). |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Philosophy, Religion and History of Science (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 03 Nov 2023 11:08 |
Last Modified: | 03 Nov 2023 11:08 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/phc3.12889 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:204874 |
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